[oooh, porn meta! *leer*]
Jul. 11th, 2006 09:45 pmI was just thinking about my fic-- which is finally(!) going well now that I have actual stuff I should be doing instead (because my brain = evil, thanx to my ex for pointing that out, btw)-- anyway, I was thinking about why I just take it for granted that of -course- it's smutty. I write smutty & read smutty (if the situation allows & we've gotten past 'I HATE YOU, POTTER, DIE!!!' at least a bit). Anyway, this is without really being a 'smut writer' or whatever. It's not my identity, it's just fun-- one of the 'good parts' of writing like banter is, unlike those pesky exposition parts I cringe to contemplate. I mean-- plot is fun to conceive of, maybe, but sort of plodding and not very imaginative to execute in details and particulars.
So in retrospect, it seems interesting-- odd?-- that one of the main complaints non-smut-writers have about porn is that it's repetitive and they're afraid they'll sound like every other porn scene they or anyone else had ever written. Indeed, a lot of evidence does corroborate this, because many sex scenes do sound alike within a single writer's work and also in general.
Now, many people have already written about this & it all sounds like an old hat (now meta-- that's repetitive), yes. People say that you should customize your sex scene to that specific situation & the characters, and I do believe that's a big part of the puzzle, but-- the point remains that even when a scene seems customized, it can still appear dull or plodding-- that is, the descriptions of the reactions aren't interesting (shocking? arousing? and doesn't reader-arousal often depend on novelty or that unexpected stomach-churning guh moment at least to some degree?) even if the reactions seem realistic enough.
The bottom line is more likely to involve the writer's relationship with sensorily descriptive passages in general, it seems like.
( ...meta? porn? META PORN!! :D! )
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Also: you know it's a bad online sorting quiz when not only does it not include Zacharias or Luna, but it says I'm either Hermione or Fudge :/ heh
So in retrospect, it seems interesting-- odd?-- that one of the main complaints non-smut-writers have about porn is that it's repetitive and they're afraid they'll sound like every other porn scene they or anyone else had ever written. Indeed, a lot of evidence does corroborate this, because many sex scenes do sound alike within a single writer's work and also in general.
Now, many people have already written about this & it all sounds like an old hat (now meta-- that's repetitive), yes. People say that you should customize your sex scene to that specific situation & the characters, and I do believe that's a big part of the puzzle, but-- the point remains that even when a scene seems customized, it can still appear dull or plodding-- that is, the descriptions of the reactions aren't interesting (shocking? arousing? and doesn't reader-arousal often depend on novelty or that unexpected stomach-churning guh moment at least to some degree?) even if the reactions seem realistic enough.
The bottom line is more likely to involve the writer's relationship with sensorily descriptive passages in general, it seems like.
( ...meta? porn? META PORN!! :D! )
~~
Also: you know it's a bad online sorting quiz when not only does it not include Zacharias or Luna, but it says I'm either Hermione or Fudge :/ heh
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