About My Fanfic Writings...
Jan. 24th, 2012 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Have decided to finally start posting some more of my more adult fics on the Pit of Voles. The trick is picking which ones stay within their rating guidelines. They list the "M" ("mature") rating as "Not suitable for children or teens below the age of 16 with possible strong but non-explicit adult themes, references to violence, and strong coarse language." The "MA" ("mature adult") rating, OTOH, is described as "Content is only suitable for mature adults. May contain explicit language and adult themes."
Now, completely aside from my knee-jerk argument that all language is inherently explicit and that adult themes really should be about doing your taxes, the Pit doesn't give the option for having an MA-rated story. Which leads me to believe they don't want sexually explicit or graphically violent stories posted on their website. (Which, hey, they're there, we all know it, and I could probably get away with posting anything I've written there. But I have this niggling fear that someday they're going to actually enforce that rule, clean out MA stories, and delete accounts. Ergo, I choose not to.)
So I went through Imprint, a PxJ MxSS fic from 2007, tightened it up a little, and posted it there. It feels so weird deliberately having a M-rated story there. Like, what are people going to think about me? I'm generally a family-friendly writer! And I actually felt so bad about this that I put a warning for non-con in the description, despite it being milder than probably 75% of the incidences of non-con I see in TFs fic....
I've also recently been going back through some of the stories I have posted there, and it's odd which ones still feel like solid writing to me, and which ones feel a little shakier now to me, like I could do better if I really wanted to. Of my HikaGo stuff, Bloodstone and Boy at the Beach still feel solid to me; the Evanescence series feels like I was trying a little too hard. The X fic And, In The End still feels pretty good to me, though I remain confounded by the fact that I've never gotten a single review on it there! It's the sole story in my Pit of Voles account with no feedback. (No, I'm not hinting; I am honestly confuddled.) A Woman of Power is solid; A Cup of Time less so, but then I had more of a problem grasping the feel of Alice in Wonderland than with Labyrinth. For Princess Tutu works, The Twelve Dancing Princesses still works for me; the rest feel a little like I was stretching. And Transformers stuff... I haven't really reread yet. It's a mixed bag as to my current appraisal of my writing levels when I wrote the stories. The one I feel best about is Ghost Stories; that one doesn't seem to get worse as I get further away from its date of writing. And everything else I haven't looked at yet.
Now, completely aside from my knee-jerk argument that all language is inherently explicit and that adult themes really should be about doing your taxes, the Pit doesn't give the option for having an MA-rated story. Which leads me to believe they don't want sexually explicit or graphically violent stories posted on their website. (Which, hey, they're there, we all know it, and I could probably get away with posting anything I've written there. But I have this niggling fear that someday they're going to actually enforce that rule, clean out MA stories, and delete accounts. Ergo, I choose not to.)
So I went through Imprint, a PxJ MxSS fic from 2007, tightened it up a little, and posted it there. It feels so weird deliberately having a M-rated story there. Like, what are people going to think about me? I'm generally a family-friendly writer! And I actually felt so bad about this that I put a warning for non-con in the description, despite it being milder than probably 75% of the incidences of non-con I see in TFs fic....
I've also recently been going back through some of the stories I have posted there, and it's odd which ones still feel like solid writing to me, and which ones feel a little shakier now to me, like I could do better if I really wanted to. Of my HikaGo stuff, Bloodstone and Boy at the Beach still feel solid to me; the Evanescence series feels like I was trying a little too hard. The X fic And, In The End still feels pretty good to me, though I remain confounded by the fact that I've never gotten a single review on it there! It's the sole story in my Pit of Voles account with no feedback. (No, I'm not hinting; I am honestly confuddled.) A Woman of Power is solid; A Cup of Time less so, but then I had more of a problem grasping the feel of Alice in Wonderland than with Labyrinth. For Princess Tutu works, The Twelve Dancing Princesses still works for me; the rest feel a little like I was stretching. And Transformers stuff... I haven't really reread yet. It's a mixed bag as to my current appraisal of my writing levels when I wrote the stories. The one I feel best about is Ghost Stories; that one doesn't seem to get worse as I get further away from its date of writing. And everything else I haven't looked at yet.
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Date: 2012-01-25 12:30 pm (UTC)Challenge accepted!
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Date: 2012-01-25 02:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-25 02:39 pm (UTC)just in case you havnt seen it!