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 12:49 am (UTC)She leaned down and kissed him, taking him by surprise.
Oooh, getting steamy, eh? I'd wiggle my eyebrows suggestively, but for some reason, that gesture has never worked well for me.
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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.