An Update type Substance

[kriadydragon]

I'm pretty sure most of the people on my f'list are either busy writing away or just busy so may not even read this. But I felt like writing it, anyway.

NaNo Novel - It has begun and I am two thousand plus words in. I know what happens next, so hopefully tomorrow will see as easy a writing spree as today. I am a bit concerned, though, as writing seems to really wear me out. Not a big deal unless it means being prematurely burned out further down the rode. I recall being hesitant about simply editing one of my stories because it made me so tired afterwards.

Eating Out - WE ate at what I have now deemed the best seafood restaurant ever. It's called the Bonefish Grill and though it doesn't offer a lot on the menu, what it does offer is to die for (I actually finished everything on my plate), and it makes Red Lobster look like a fast food joint.

Fandom Woes - the White Collar fandom is starting to frustrate me. Okay, so it was inevitable as most fandoms end up frustrating me, but each in a different way. The WC fandom is still a pretty young fandom since the show is only two seasons in, but it's starting to look like how the SGA fandom is looking now - lots and lots of pairing fic and well written gen that is few and far between. All things considered, it's not a big fandom, and I don't know if that's because the fandom is still young or we just aren't getting a lot of writers. Most of the writers all ready there go in one of two directions - well written but focused on a pairing, or focused on whipping out stories as quickly as possible. And fanon kinks have taken over hard and fast. If it's not OT3, it's adult discipline, most especially non-sexual spanking. I try to be open minded and understanding of other people's kinks, but there are some I have to draw a line at and spanking is one of them.

One thing I would really like to do is create a Gen Comment fic Community. Right now the most popular WC community seems to be the Kink Meme and, well, though it does inspire some gen stories obviously what you're going to get with that is a lot of kink. So (for purely selfish reasons ;)) I would like to start up a gen meme. But I'm hesitant since the majority of LJ writers all lean toward pairings and porn, while most of the gen writers are on FF.net, so I'm not sure if the community will catch on. But I suppose there's no harm in trying. I may do this after November.



Fic - Yeah, pimping my own fic again for any who might have missed it. I wrote a little SGA Halloween story - Beastly Things. Bit of a Conversion tag with lots of Shep Whump. Poor boy. I'm so mean to him. Bwhahahahaha!

Comments

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Heh, sadly there are plenty of fic to choose from ;) Here's a couple, all by the same author who seems to be a spanking fanatic as she keeps warning for it.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6434360/1/Under_The_Weather
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6356476/1/Following_The_Painting
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6306202/1/The_Lawyers_Wallet

Posting anonymously, that may work :D I may even do that for the SGA comment fic meme I'm planning for after December.

[sholio]

aaaaaaaaagh ... okay, yes, I see what you mean, um, wow. XD *scrubs brain* I think that author is totally fooling herself if she thinks she's not writing lifestyle BDSM, too, because that is EXACTLY what that is. It's not gen. (And you know me. I read a fair amount of fic that isn't gen. I don't have any problem with BDSM; it just happens not to be my thing, in general. Trying to sneak BDSM into a "gen" fic, though? NOT COOL.)

I would love to see how the anon thing works out in a gen meme, because I do think that it might make more people feel comfortable participating, or more open about asking for things they want to read without feeling self-conscious. That kind of self-consciousness is exactly what's made me hold back from participating in a lot of challenges and commentfic memes over the last couple of years; I just feel too awkward about asking for, or writing, the self-indulgent things I really want. It would be lovely to have a space to be freed from those concerns!

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

I think what really squicks me about it is that Neal, being a criminal released into Peter's custody, can't really do anything about being spanked because Peter can just threaten to send him back to jail. It's more than just BDSM, it's honest to goodness torture but it's written like it's supposed to be something cute and fluffy.

I'll definitely allow for anonymous posting in the memes. I hadn't considered the freedom behind writing anonymously but, yeah, there are things I've wanted to write yet for some reason never felt comfortable doing so.

[tridget.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit late jumping in here, but I wanted to say an anonymous option gen meme could be interesting. There may be some cool ideas that people have been shy about asking for, or maybe there are people who've never made a request before but would do so if it were anon. I've really enjoyed the gen comment fics this year, so I'm all for generating ideas and stories in that sort of format.