30 days of fanfiction meme (day 14... hang on it is only day 13 though)

[petronia]

Oh, never mind! I should probably try to get as many done of these as I can anyway, this week is far less busy than next week will be. I'll be doing press coverage of Fantasia and Nuits d'Afrique, have to attend a spate of out-of-office client meetings during the day, and sub_divided will be in town! None of which makes for sitting at computer screens on beautiful summer afternoons, and thank goodness for that. This probably also means I should clear out my backlog of movie and book reviews. And the Madoka fic. XD;

I do have the last Dunnett sitting on my table at home. I've just been holding off on it because I have the impression I can't do anything else when I'm reading her. Instead I've been reading Heyer XD; Cotillion - it's a crack shoujo manga, basically.

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14 – Ratings – how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you're writing is G-rated instead?

Shocked? Is "shocked" the word? It's more like "aahhhh fuckballs this is for SSBB, I gotta make the best of it". Anyway, in the majority of cases it's "graphic depictions of violence" behind my M-ratings on AO3 (which in my mind is roughly equivalent to "R-rated movie"), not to mention character death, drug use, explicit language, non-con, and underage. XD;; I have no actual block against writing NC17 sex scenes, it's just that I tend to produce plots in which they're structurally unnecessary. I have an immense appreciation for writers who can tell a fully-realized story, beginning, end, character development and all, within the context of a sexual encounter that isn't dodgy for some other reason, but that's not really my artistic focus. So to speak. orz

Comments

[rondaview.livejournal.com]

I hear Cotillion is amazeballs. :D And do alert me when you start the Dunnett! I was going to bike to my local library to pick it up this weekend. Although with that and GRRM's latest .... as someone on my flist was saying, GOODBYE EYESIGHT, I HARDLY KNEW YE. (Could I interest you in that series, perchance? :D)

[lesstraveled.livejournal.com]

YOU. I had the library hold the first book in that Dunnett series because of your posts! I'll probably wind up reading with a magnifying glass this week.

[rondaview.livejournal.com]

Full disclosure, Dunnett takes a lot more patience than GRRM. I've pushed this series onto four? five? other people but none of them have managed to make it past Lymond #2 so far, to my great sorrow. If you can get to Lymond #3 I think the levels of 'OMFG need to compulsively beat at the keyboard with fingers, knuckles or wrists' are comparable to those conferred by the GRRM thrill ride, though.

[lesstraveled.livejournal.com]

I've been known to read cookbooks with rapt attention and fall asleep in action films, so hopefully my meter for what is interesting stays broken for long enough to plow through it! I know I read part of one of the books years and years ago, but not enough to recall anything other than the fact that I know I read it. I will probably finish just to up my INTERNET CRED, or at least so I can quit going, "Yeah, I read that book... but I don't remember it...."

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I have the first GRRM lying around somewhere. Couldn't get into it - couldn't get through the first chapter, tbh. But I haven't read any high fantasy for close to a decade, unless you count Steven Brust and, like, Captive Prince. XD; Oh, and I read a couple of Roger Zelazny's Amber books in like 2007, but couldn't really get into them either. I think I read so many of these series during my teens that I stopped feeling like they had anything to offer me.

[troisroyaumes]

I was just rereading Cotillion for the gazillionth time yesterday. Heyer does scratch the shoujo itch although I think she never quite manages to create another hero as lovable as Freddy. (<3!)