Writing meme

[unfeathered]

Seen absolutely everywhere on my flist:

What would you say are the trademarks of my writing? What themes or quirks or turns of phrase have you noticed? What is it that makes a story by me -- well, a story by me?

This is going to be interesting... :-)

Comments

[fandom-me.livejournal.com]

The first Jack/Master sex scene. I flinched SO HARD. (I have weird issues - I should go into them sometime, but they're bizarre and personal.)

[unfeathered]

Oh, yes, I remember now. I got all worried 'cos you said you were uncomfortable.

But if it's a personal thing for you and not for me, it makes sense that you would flinch and I wouldn't.

[fandom-me.livejournal.com]

I think most things that make people are uncomfortable are. Personal, I mean.

I flinch at cross-dressing, foodplay, sex toys and the word clit. It's not past trauma or anything, it's just me and my weird brain.

[unfeathered]

If by 'flinch' here we mean 'wouldn't want to write' rather than 'absolutely couldn't write even if the scene really, really demanded it', I'd say I flinch at cross-dressing and foodplay too. And humiliation, which I know you've mentioned before. And possibly the word clit, but more precisely sex with females (which I know you've written about before too) - I'll read it but I have no desire to write it.

I'm intrigued by you flinching at sex toys, though...

[fandom-me.livejournal.com]

Humiliation, too, yeah. I can not not not humiliate my characters. I especially can't have them get off on it. I. I've never written sex with females. I am uncomfortable with a lot of it. I think I can do it, though. >.>

Sex toys are something I associate with humliation. Don't ask me why - I just do.

[unfeathered]

Maybe this is why I like your writing so much (well, one reason) - because you don't like the same things I don't like!

Sex toys = humiliation, though. That's just weird! *g*

[fandom-me.livejournal.com]

VERY possible *G*

To be honest, it's not all sex toys. Those electric cuffs? OK! SOunding rod? All right. Gags or plugs? Bother me. I think it's sexually penetrated with an object, and that leads to objectification/depersonalization and that leads to humilation.

...I am *definitely* weird.

[unfeathered]

You're not weird. I can totally see what you mean. And tbh, plugs and dildos don't really do it for me either. I'd rather have someone using their fingers or their - you know - cock!

Yeah, actually. Jack and the plug... I think I squirmed just a tiny bit there too. Not enough to not write it. But... the rest of that scene turned me on (even though, yeah, bit of humiliation going on there). But the plug definitely didn't.

Gags... Not sure. So many variations. But I can see how that can tie in to humiliation again.

[fandom-me.livejournal.com]

Between you and me? I almost like fingers more than actual dick in whatever sex. There's something *really* intimate about it that gets to me. Go figure.

and yeah, that kind of thing I think is exactly what I was talking about, and gagging definitely depends. They also scare me, to be frank. I'm the real world BDSM girl. Gags come with dangers and I spend so much time wigging at that that I can't quite get past it.

[unfeathered]

Yeah, fingers are good because they're more... precise, I suppose.

The other thing about gags - for writing, anyway - is you then cut off a lot of the ways a character can express themselves - not just not being able to speak, but you can't see all their face either.

[fandom-me.livejournal.com]

Yep. Depends on the gag - again - a lot of them are more suggestive than actually restrictive, very few of them cut off sound, but. Just. No. It's such a real life hard line for me that I can't quite even cross it in fiction, unless I intend it to go really wrong.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

I - *that's me* *those* are the things I flinch at...

although I have actually written food sex kinda - it took me ages - as a favour for a friend... I can see it as a sensuous thing and I can see its place in fiction just once you're doing anything past putting it your mouths/ licking it off fingers - *ick*

[fandom-me.livejournal.com]

That makes me feel so less bizarre - seriously, just incredibly.

And, that's exactly me, too!. I can see food as sensual, and I can see Jack LOVING Food, because he loves sex, but I can NOT write sex with food - not foreplay, not the licking off fingers, just eating it - SEX. It just. Icks me.

[unfeathered]

It's messy, that's my reason. I don't like mess.

[fandom-me.livejournal.com]

Messy and sticky and *AGAIN!* penetration in a sexual way with something not attached to the person doing the penetrator. Or it's just a gross messy barrier.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling that's a lot to do with it for me too. It's like my thoughts on spanking being too loud: I can't write that either because my logic says everything stops when there's a loud noise :D

[fandom-me.livejournal.com]

Twack! Screech! Flail!

Kinda cuts into the mood, sometimes.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

It *really* does and *that* (the cutting into the mood) is definitely why sex toys don't really work for me either (reading or writing) unless -& Master Plan's a good one for this - it is 'action off screen' as it were.

[fandom-me.livejournal.com]

There's also issues with repetitive action - a lot of sex toys and many kinks require that kind of thing. You get jarred out of the action and the character because it goes on and on and you have to *Really* watch the pacing and just. Yeah. Fix your POV and it's less an issue, but. IT's still difficult to do well.

And sex toys *Definitely* can cut into the intimacy of the POV.