I am now a real writer.
Sep. 18th, 2004 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wordwhackerI have just had a beautiful and amazing thing happen to me.
Allow me to tell you the tale.
I was supposed to go to bed at about 2PM, so as to sleep eight hours and wake up at 10 for my last shift of the week. I got to procrastinating, and the next thing I know, it's 4PM. Figuring that 6 hours of sleep would probably be fine, I trundle off to bed. I figure it'll take a little while to get wound down, so as an exercise in falling asleep, I start to think about where I'm going to go with my NaNoWarmup story next.
Cue a blinding flash of inspiration, coupled with - amazingly enough - an intense and immediate desire to write.
Not only have I spent the last three hours writing instead of sleeping, all of the prose I have produced has been - wait for it - good. As in, "this is just about exactly what I wanted to accomplish with this scene" good.
I'm finally starting to feel like I'm capable of leaving things off so that I can at least nap a bit before work. Go figure, however, that this is just where things were about to get steamy. Seriously. The last line I wrote was:
She leaned down and kissed him, taking him by surprise.
I guess it won't be hard to pick up later, eh?
So, where can I pick up my "Real Writer (With A Capital W)" badge?
Allow me to tell you the tale.
I was supposed to go to bed at about 2PM, so as to sleep eight hours and wake up at 10 for my last shift of the week. I got to procrastinating, and the next thing I know, it's 4PM. Figuring that 6 hours of sleep would probably be fine, I trundle off to bed. I figure it'll take a little while to get wound down, so as an exercise in falling asleep, I start to think about where I'm going to go with my NaNoWarmup story next.
Cue a blinding flash of inspiration, coupled with - amazingly enough - an intense and immediate desire to write.
Not only have I spent the last three hours writing instead of sleeping, all of the prose I have produced has been - wait for it - good. As in, "this is just about exactly what I wanted to accomplish with this scene" good.
I'm finally starting to feel like I'm capable of leaving things off so that I can at least nap a bit before work. Go figure, however, that this is just where things were about to get steamy. Seriously. The last line I wrote was:
She leaned down and kissed him, taking him by surprise.
I guess it won't be hard to pick up later, eh?
So, where can I pick up my "Real Writer (With A Capital W)" badge?
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Date: 2004-09-19 02:30 am (UTC)Yeah, I have no idea how I'm going to write Yon Aformentioned Slightly Steamy Scene. I want to keep it real - I absolutely refuse to go into "purple prose mode", but I, err, don't write this sort of thing all that often, and haven't experienced it myself for a rather long while. So this is me, hoping it doesn't completely suck.
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Date: 2004-09-19 02:56 am (UTC)I actually have written my share of steamy scenes, ranging from mildly intimate to practically pornographic, and I have a feeling I probably blush madly while typing the steamy sentances. And I'm so freakin' pale that any bit of blushing on me shines like a beacon. Still, I think it's extremely nerve-wracking to actually let other people read those sorts of scenes - what the eff am I thinking, wanting to write a book about a hooker?!? (Actually, I'm thinking that the power dynamic present there should make it easier)
So this is me, hoping it doesn't completely suck.
*cough* Then again, suckage could very well be an integral part of aforementioned steamy scene. *picking up my pom-poms and running*
Hey! You! Get back here!
Date: 2004-09-19 03:24 am (UTC)I don't think this scene is going to get too terribly pornographic. I do want it to be hot, though. I think I've done my job of earning the scene, considering it takes the characters through a LOT of dialogue that I'm pretty happy with and that sets up some tension between them. Now it's just to write it. Gulp*.
* No, there will not be any gulping in this scene. X-D Definitely later, though. Threesome action. M/M/F. Because I can.
Re: Hey! You! Get back here!
Date: 2004-09-19 03:34 am (UTC)"Pervert," she noted happily, no longer pretending she wasn't just as afflicted.
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Date: 2004-09-19 03:42 am (UTC)Pervert? Moi? Surely you jest, madame!
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Date: 2004-09-19 03:50 am (UTC)Non, je ne plaisante pas. Vous êtes un perverti.