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Nov. 29th, 2007 01:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maderrI really wish the stupid cat would come back inside so I could go sleepy x_x I wanted to be in bed awhile ago, but noooooooo. Fucking cat >.> We're gonna have stew for dinner tomorrow. Chinese stew.
In other news, because I'm tired and trying to stay awake, cracked open a torq story I'd never gotten around to reading and all it's done is remind me why I stopped reading some the med to hard kinks. I fucking hate the way so many stories do dom/sub stuff. The dom is always some asshole I wish would fuck off and die, and the subs are whiney babies I want to punch in the face and just ARGH
Mostly it's the dynamics. Such a fascinating dynamic to work with. I love it. So many stories fuck it up or lay it all out in paint-by-numbers fashion, a lot of telling but not showing so I feel more like I'm reading some sort of really shitty instructiong manual more than a romance.
Ugh. I guess I have no room to talk. That sort of thing isn't something I've really tackled. I guess I have my dwtd dragons, but I don't know if they count per se. It's a bit different, there, because the dragos are. not. human. they can look human, and act human depending on how lazy they are (Cal does really well, the twins not so much). So, I dunno. You've got Charlie (angel from dwtd) but again that's different -- Jed made him, literally. He wears a collar as part of keeping him what he is, and to show who made him, etc. I have harem, but again -- not a true play of dom/sub roles.
I dunno. Maybe it's beyond my comprehension and that's why it's bugging me. But I do know how important characters are, how crucial it is to get their dynamics right. If all you're going to do is beat me over the head with shit instead of showing me, and if you're more interested in A is Master and B is Sub and beating me over the head with THAT, then please to be going away. It can be difficult to write certain characters, oh my god do I know this. I'd like to see someone nail Dieter and Beraht, go ahead and try.
The most important thing is that the story is not about the fucking writer and what she wants to see. It's about the character, the story. How would A act? How would B act? If A did this how would B react? Would he react differently if C was around? If all you're going to do is cut out stupid ass paperdolls and force them into the situations you want to see, or worse -- change them because your'e too fucking lazy to do it right -- then get the fuck out of the sandbox.
What makes me saddest is that my words are empty. The sad truth is that it's the crap that gets published, and I can write 'til I'm blue in the face and get nowhere. No one wants details, or characters that work, or worlds that make sense. They just want tissue paper stories with lots of smut. As hard as I try, the likes of Prisoner or my fairytales or DwtD or Kidnapped just don't amount to much.
Would like to see a GOOD dom/sub story. It's such a pretty dynamic when done correctly. But that's the ultimate problem I guess -- damn near every story I read makes it ugly. It should be hella pretty. I mean come on, it's not like it would even be hard to do it properly. I mean most people take the cop out of B learning from A so A immediately throws him into the dom/sub games, regardless of what B was actually hoping to learn (which, generally, is just learning how to be a good fuck toy. the creativity, it slays, especially when there's no goddamn fucking cultural basis for anyone to be acting thi way or choosing to do this). There are much better foundations to start from. No, I'm not telling you. But I will say that old school is best school and sometimes the best place to start is with the obvious. People try too fucking hard and wind up sounding dumber than they would have otherwise.
Ugh rambling now.
Whatever. Tired. Cranky. Seriously annoyed. Cat back. Ignore me. To bed I go. Peace out.
In other news, because I'm tired and trying to stay awake, cracked open a torq story I'd never gotten around to reading and all it's done is remind me why I stopped reading some the med to hard kinks. I fucking hate the way so many stories do dom/sub stuff. The dom is always some asshole I wish would fuck off and die, and the subs are whiney babies I want to punch in the face and just ARGH
Mostly it's the dynamics. Such a fascinating dynamic to work with. I love it. So many stories fuck it up or lay it all out in paint-by-numbers fashion, a lot of telling but not showing so I feel more like I'm reading some sort of really shitty instructiong manual more than a romance.
Ugh. I guess I have no room to talk. That sort of thing isn't something I've really tackled. I guess I have my dwtd dragons, but I don't know if they count per se. It's a bit different, there, because the dragos are. not. human. they can look human, and act human depending on how lazy they are (Cal does really well, the twins not so much). So, I dunno. You've got Charlie (angel from dwtd) but again that's different -- Jed made him, literally. He wears a collar as part of keeping him what he is, and to show who made him, etc. I have harem, but again -- not a true play of dom/sub roles.
I dunno. Maybe it's beyond my comprehension and that's why it's bugging me. But I do know how important characters are, how crucial it is to get their dynamics right. If all you're going to do is beat me over the head with shit instead of showing me, and if you're more interested in A is Master and B is Sub and beating me over the head with THAT, then please to be going away. It can be difficult to write certain characters, oh my god do I know this. I'd like to see someone nail Dieter and Beraht, go ahead and try.
The most important thing is that the story is not about the fucking writer and what she wants to see. It's about the character, the story. How would A act? How would B act? If A did this how would B react? Would he react differently if C was around? If all you're going to do is cut out stupid ass paperdolls and force them into the situations you want to see, or worse -- change them because your'e too fucking lazy to do it right -- then get the fuck out of the sandbox.
What makes me saddest is that my words are empty. The sad truth is that it's the crap that gets published, and I can write 'til I'm blue in the face and get nowhere. No one wants details, or characters that work, or worlds that make sense. They just want tissue paper stories with lots of smut. As hard as I try, the likes of Prisoner or my fairytales or DwtD or Kidnapped just don't amount to much.
Would like to see a GOOD dom/sub story. It's such a pretty dynamic when done correctly. But that's the ultimate problem I guess -- damn near every story I read makes it ugly. It should be hella pretty. I mean come on, it's not like it would even be hard to do it properly. I mean most people take the cop out of B learning from A so A immediately throws him into the dom/sub games, regardless of what B was actually hoping to learn (which, generally, is just learning how to be a good fuck toy. the creativity, it slays, especially when there's no goddamn fucking cultural basis for anyone to be acting thi way or choosing to do this). There are much better foundations to start from. No, I'm not telling you. But I will say that old school is best school and sometimes the best place to start is with the obvious. People try too fucking hard and wind up sounding dumber than they would have otherwise.
Ugh rambling now.
Whatever. Tired. Cranky. Seriously annoyed. Cat back. Ignore me. To bed I go. Peace out.
