Sidetracked
Feb. 7th, 2015 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarotgalSo... I got sidetracked again.
Yesterday was MISERABLE for me. Twice within a week I've had major digestive issues that I simply shouldn't be having, given what I eat. The first time, I figured my stomach was just messed up after the day of not eating properly/at all. But yesterday there was no excuse. And it's been bad all week, but yesterday after work was just plain miserable. So I spent a lot of time doing nothing but reading. I finished the gay hockey erotica novel I bought a while back thanks to BookBub. And on the last page was mention of the author's BDSM novel that had won some award. So I looked it up. Straight BDSM is sometimes my thing, though I prefer gay. What isn't my thing is the Texas setting and the rodeo circuit. But there was a sample available, so I gave it a read and suddenly couldn't stop reading. I tried switching to other books I had on my tablet, but it was no good. I had to find out what happened next to these characters. So I ended up buying the book. Gah. And I'm about 35% done now and still liking it, though a few of the descriptions are a little much for me, especially the part where they eat a steak dinner at a restaurant together. Ew. Steak. LOL
But that got me to thinking... I could totally write one of these. And then, BOOM, an original character jumped into my head. And then a scene. And then another scene. And another. And today I started writing it. And I think it's not half bad at the moment. I tried writing actual commercial romance/erotica once and it was an utter failure as I hate writing to a formula. But this... this one is actually fun to write. And it's a different sort of twist to things. I think it might actually work. I'm kind of excited about it. Look at me writing het erotica! Who'd have thought? Okay... it's not exclusively het, but that's the main story at least. Guess we'll see what happens.
On another note, I'm doing Thing-a-Day February. It's been tough so far doing things each day. Some days I want to do many things but I have to stop and save them for other days, or I'll run out of days. Which kind of goes against the spirit of making things. But I think it's also a fun experiment to see if I can create something every single day for a month, and to see if I get more creative or more freedom when creating because of it. So far, only 2 of my 7 finished days have been stories (one Deanfic posted to the birthday meme and one Strokes fic I haven't posted anywhere yet because I can't think of a good title and I'm not sure where it lies in the timeline yet). I've really been in a Strokes mood lately, actually, trying to polish up a few of Sin's stories for the collection. I workshopped one at roundtable on Wednesday and it went over well. I got some great feedback on things to change from everyone... except from the stupid idiot whose work I don't get (you can't call a story a memoir if you're not actually IN THE STORY!). That guy tore my piece apart and kept saying things like how Sinclair was dangerous and could have killed somebody. What??? I don't know. He didn't seem to have made any notes on my copy, so whatever. I'm feeling good about the changes I'm making based on other comments and things that occurred to me as I was reading it out loud. And then I went and wrote an Olly story. Yeah. I love my OCs.
Anyway... yeah. Writing. It's good. I like it.
Yesterday was MISERABLE for me. Twice within a week I've had major digestive issues that I simply shouldn't be having, given what I eat. The first time, I figured my stomach was just messed up after the day of not eating properly/at all. But yesterday there was no excuse. And it's been bad all week, but yesterday after work was just plain miserable. So I spent a lot of time doing nothing but reading. I finished the gay hockey erotica novel I bought a while back thanks to BookBub. And on the last page was mention of the author's BDSM novel that had won some award. So I looked it up. Straight BDSM is sometimes my thing, though I prefer gay. What isn't my thing is the Texas setting and the rodeo circuit. But there was a sample available, so I gave it a read and suddenly couldn't stop reading. I tried switching to other books I had on my tablet, but it was no good. I had to find out what happened next to these characters. So I ended up buying the book. Gah. And I'm about 35% done now and still liking it, though a few of the descriptions are a little much for me, especially the part where they eat a steak dinner at a restaurant together. Ew. Steak. LOL
But that got me to thinking... I could totally write one of these. And then, BOOM, an original character jumped into my head. And then a scene. And then another scene. And another. And today I started writing it. And I think it's not half bad at the moment. I tried writing actual commercial romance/erotica once and it was an utter failure as I hate writing to a formula. But this... this one is actually fun to write. And it's a different sort of twist to things. I think it might actually work. I'm kind of excited about it. Look at me writing het erotica! Who'd have thought? Okay... it's not exclusively het, but that's the main story at least. Guess we'll see what happens.
On another note, I'm doing Thing-a-Day February. It's been tough so far doing things each day. Some days I want to do many things but I have to stop and save them for other days, or I'll run out of days. Which kind of goes against the spirit of making things. But I think it's also a fun experiment to see if I can create something every single day for a month, and to see if I get more creative or more freedom when creating because of it. So far, only 2 of my 7 finished days have been stories (one Deanfic posted to the birthday meme and one Strokes fic I haven't posted anywhere yet because I can't think of a good title and I'm not sure where it lies in the timeline yet). I've really been in a Strokes mood lately, actually, trying to polish up a few of Sin's stories for the collection. I workshopped one at roundtable on Wednesday and it went over well. I got some great feedback on things to change from everyone... except from the stupid idiot whose work I don't get (you can't call a story a memoir if you're not actually IN THE STORY!). That guy tore my piece apart and kept saying things like how Sinclair was dangerous and could have killed somebody. What??? I don't know. He didn't seem to have made any notes on my copy, so whatever. I'm feeling good about the changes I'm making based on other comments and things that occurred to me as I was reading it out loud. And then I went and wrote an Olly story. Yeah. I love my OCs.
Anyway... yeah. Writing. It's good. I like it.
