Talking it out still mostly works with things that I'm on a deadline for and thus have some obligation to finish, too - long fics or things I have no outside impetus to finish, I tend to forget about or fall behind on if I talk about them too much. But that might just be that I'm really bad at writing longfic anyway...anyway, I do encourage you to give it a try, at least with an idea that you're not terribly attached to or urgent about writing (so that way it's not as discouraging if you lose impetus to work on it). There was some study done somewhere demonstrating that the way we best learn and memorize information is by explaining it to someone else, because then we have to know how to rephrase and re-conceptualize it; same thing, I find, goes for stories. You have to know more about them and structure them a bit more to explain them to someone else.
I hope you don't find this creepy but there are so many different points in this conversation where I just want to jump up and down and squee because you have so many of the same tastes in fic that I do! Domestic fic involving characters that we usually see being badass is my favorite, because I just love imagining what they'd do in their offtime and extrapolating bits of their personality into hobbies and interests and guilty-pleasure TV programs. Or the equivalent thereof for robots, in this case. I suppose it's also a handy way of world-building, now that I think of it.
I'd love to get around to using it myself, and maybe someday I will, but we'll see.
*nudges you*
so instead: how's the story going?
Er. It's kind of like the story that wouldn't end, at this point. >__> I've got 1400 words thus far, and only about 200 of them are porny in any fashion - the rest are all setup, and I can't even do that thing that some writers do where even the setup sounds sexy. I've got the bit where they first meet and she "invites" him back, part of the second night (I have Blackarachnia collar him from the trees before he sees her and then negotiating what they're going to do from there, though what she suggests is more that he be willing to be led around on a leash rather than sex in particular - though I figure if she's already got him by the throat I can start turning up the temperature a few degrees so the progression from not-sex scene to sex scene doesn't feel jarring), and a tiny bit of actual kink in there, but it's just not getting written and I'm worried it's way too long and my readers will lose patience midway through and aaaaah. WRITING IS HARD.
And I have no idea if this comment made any sense or not, it is 2 a.m. here and I'm rambling all over the place.
hmmm. Let me give you a place to start - you have any more Blurr fic you're thinking about writing? Which reminds me, I must go and leave a review for your Longarm/Blurr fic, which I've read and adored but I've been a terrible commenter these past few weeks...
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I hope you don't find this creepy but there are so many different points in this conversation where I just want to jump up and down and squee because you have so many of the same tastes in fic that I do! Domestic fic involving characters that we usually see being badass is my favorite, because I just love imagining what they'd do in their offtime and extrapolating bits of their personality into hobbies and interests and guilty-pleasure TV programs. Or the equivalent thereof for robots, in this case. I suppose it's also a handy way of world-building, now that I think of it.
I'd love to get around to using it myself, and maybe someday I will, but we'll see.
*nudges you*
so instead: how's the story going?
Er. It's kind of like the story that wouldn't end, at this point. >__> I've got 1400 words thus far, and only about 200 of them are porny in any fashion - the rest are all setup, and I can't even do that thing that some writers do where even the setup sounds sexy. I've got the bit where they first meet and she "invites" him back, part of the second night (I have Blackarachnia collar him from the trees before he sees her and then negotiating what they're going to do from there, though what she suggests is more that he be willing to be led around on a leash rather than sex in particular - though I figure if she's already got him by the throat I can start turning up the temperature a few degrees so the progression from not-sex scene to sex scene doesn't feel jarring), and a tiny bit of actual kink in there, but it's just not getting written and I'm worried it's way too long and my readers will lose patience midway through and aaaaah. WRITING IS HARD.
And I have no idea if this comment made any sense or not, it is 2 a.m. here and I'm rambling all over the place.
hmmm. Let me give you a place to start - you have any more Blurr fic you're thinking about writing? Which reminds me, I must go and leave a review for your Longarm/Blurr fic, which I've read and adored but I've been a terrible commenter these past few weeks...