Aren't we looking naked?
Nov. 24th, 2002 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vulgarweedUrgently watching the sky for snow (so sue me, I like it, and it's about time) and trying to decide if Mister Hot-Knuckles and I are up to cooking a turkey. Well, to decide if he is. Reheating fried chicken in the microwave is something I regularly botch.
Agonizing still over darkslash work in progress, stress recently compounded by reading a story that shall go unnamed that had potential except....it is extremely difficult to write about hot nasty m/m sex and keep the feel Tolkienesque, for reasons that I suppose are pretty obvious. Attempts to render it in grand language and supposedly culture-appropriate idioms are virtually always unintentionally hilarious, which is why all my efforts to date have been intentionally funny, to head that problem off at the pass. Lord knows using "elfhood" with a straight face is way beyond my meager powers.
But sex isn't really the problem here. Characterization is the problem. Goddamn first-person POV. What was I thinking?
OK, time to round up some friends for the livejournal so I'm not out here in the aether.
Agonizing still over darkslash work in progress, stress recently compounded by reading a story that shall go unnamed that had potential except....it is extremely difficult to write about hot nasty m/m sex and keep the feel Tolkienesque, for reasons that I suppose are pretty obvious. Attempts to render it in grand language and supposedly culture-appropriate idioms are virtually always unintentionally hilarious, which is why all my efforts to date have been intentionally funny, to head that problem off at the pass. Lord knows using "elfhood" with a straight face is way beyond my meager powers.
But sex isn't really the problem here. Characterization is the problem. Goddamn first-person POV. What was I thinking?
OK, time to round up some friends for the livejournal so I'm not out here in the aether.
