ladyjanelly | (no subject)

Okay, so I'm having a difficulty writing fanfic and I was wondering if anybody else has run across it or had any advice.

The boys won't fuck.

No really. I don't mean I'm having trouble writing a sex scene. I'm having trouble building any UST at all, much relieving it. I'm doing a mini-nanowrimo thing, where I just write a minimum of 10 mins a day. I've made amazing progress. I finished the BDS/SPN crossover (vaguely implied maybe-sex that I don't even believe). I worked on the SPN AU seperated-young hooker!fic (and Dean won't fuck). I started a SPN AU seperated-young blind-vulnerable-tragic!Sam fic (And Sam's in love with Jess and won't fuck). I tried to plan out the third SeanPatrickFlanery/NormanReedus PWPish piece, and I'm not writing it because you can't have a PWP without sex.

I know I've never been the porniest writer out there, and I still loves me some slash, but I'm stuck in gen-fic mode and don't know how to get out of it.

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Read porn.
I know this sounds like the most obvious answer ever, but bear with me.
Read the really good stuff, so you have some kind of goal. like, "I wanna write porn like ______!"
Read the bad stuff, so you know exactly what not to do. It's also an ego-boost, 'cause you /know/ you can write better than that. I suggest a trip to adultfanfiction.net for that.
Read the mediocre stuff, so you can find what works and what doesn't.
And then threaten to never write porn again, and I betcha the boys'll whip into shape

Heh.
If anything I have the opposite problem. I think maybe I read too much porn. Lately it's been almost everything that pops up on the spnnewsletter thingy every day. And yeah, some aff.net too.

I almost thought about not letting myself read porn at all for a week or so, to build up some internal tension, but I'm following some really great WIPs and I'm afraid I might lose them if I don't read them as they come out.

I think it's more a problem of finding the switch that turns on the heat.

But yeah, heh, maybe threatening to never write porn again might work, because I seem to have a problem keeping most of my writing promises. :)

Thanks, lady.