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Day - that Dail isn't here - 195?
Jul. 13th, 2012 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
faradHi all - Dail is away today and she asked me to drop in and see what I could amuse us with. As it happens - I can amuse us with sex. A friend of mine posted this wonderful link to "25 Things You Should Know About Writing Sex". It's pretty general, not specifically for fanfic writers or slash writers, but it's got some really good points. My favorite is #21, which does pretty much sum up for many of us why we write fanfic:
" One Conflict: Sex Changes Everything
In real life — and thus, in most fiction — sex is a bunker buster bomb dropped on a relationship. People do the rumpy-pumpy and think it won’t change anything and ha ha ha you stupid fools, it most certainly will. Fiction thrives on conflict and change and the audience knows that sex is both of those things. It changes the game. It ups the stakes. Sex offers your story a lusty sex-slick pivot: use it to turn your story heel-to-toe."
" One Conflict: Sex Changes Everything
In real life — and thus, in most fiction — sex is a bunker buster bomb dropped on a relationship. People do the rumpy-pumpy and think it won’t change anything and ha ha ha you stupid fools, it most certainly will. Fiction thrives on conflict and change and the audience knows that sex is both of those things. It changes the game. It ups the stakes. Sex offers your story a lusty sex-slick pivot: use it to turn your story heel-to-toe."