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Okay, so *shuffles feet* ... a week or so back, I wrote commentfic porn for Porn Battle VI. It's taken me this long to get around to admitting it! Well ... the latter of the two ficlets is really not very porny at all, but it would have been if I hadn't run out of comment space and had to cut it down.
Sleepover, OT4, NC-17
Waiting Game, Ronon/Tealc, PG-13 (Midway tag)
I ... honestly haven't got the slightest idea whether either of these fics succeeds, either as a story or as porn. *g* Written porn doesn't really turn me on, and romance doesn't do much for me in general, so I have no way of judging my own results! Not that I dislike either ficlet - actually, I think they turned out nice, and I'm reasonably happy with them - but with the OT4 in particular, I kept struggling against the editor part of my brain, which kept telling me "This isn't necessary to the story" and "Why are you including that detail?" and "You know, this story would really be stronger if we cut away here".
I don't think I'm cut out to write PWP. *g*
And porn in general - I don't know! Like I said, I don't get much out of it, which makes me wonder what other people get out of it. I suspect I'd be equally clueless if someone asked me why I like h/c, or what I get out of reading/writing it. Uh ... I don't know! I can analyze it until the cows come home (in fact, I enjoy that), but when it comes right down to it, why I enjoy friendship but not (generally) romance, h/c and not porn -- I haven't a clue. I assume I'm just wired that way.
One thing I was thinking about while writing my PWP, though, is that I'm not really fond of isolated h/c snippets, either. As much as I enjoy it when it's integrated into a story, as a stand-alone - the h/c equivalent of PWP *g* - it's not really my thing. So for me, I guess, it's ultimately about the story - the emotional resonance is what I read for, but I need the story in order for the emotions to mean anything. I get far more emotional impact out of an h/c scene (or a romance, or even a sex scene) when it occurs as a natural consequence of the story's actions, rather than being the story's whole reason for being.
I wonder if writing sex and romance might be more natural for me and feel less extraneous as part of a longer story.
Sleepover, OT4, NC-17
Waiting Game, Ronon/Tealc, PG-13 (Midway tag)
I ... honestly haven't got the slightest idea whether either of these fics succeeds, either as a story or as porn. *g* Written porn doesn't really turn me on, and romance doesn't do much for me in general, so I have no way of judging my own results! Not that I dislike either ficlet - actually, I think they turned out nice, and I'm reasonably happy with them - but with the OT4 in particular, I kept struggling against the editor part of my brain, which kept telling me "This isn't necessary to the story" and "Why are you including that detail?" and "You know, this story would really be stronger if we cut away here".
I don't think I'm cut out to write PWP. *g*
And porn in general - I don't know! Like I said, I don't get much out of it, which makes me wonder what other people get out of it. I suspect I'd be equally clueless if someone asked me why I like h/c, or what I get out of reading/writing it. Uh ... I don't know! I can analyze it until the cows come home (in fact, I enjoy that), but when it comes right down to it, why I enjoy friendship but not (generally) romance, h/c and not porn -- I haven't a clue. I assume I'm just wired that way.
One thing I was thinking about while writing my PWP, though, is that I'm not really fond of isolated h/c snippets, either. As much as I enjoy it when it's integrated into a story, as a stand-alone - the h/c equivalent of PWP *g* - it's not really my thing. So for me, I guess, it's ultimately about the story - the emotional resonance is what I read for, but I need the story in order for the emotions to mean anything. I get far more emotional impact out of an h/c scene (or a romance, or even a sex scene) when it occurs as a natural consequence of the story's actions, rather than being the story's whole reason for being.
I wonder if writing sex and romance might be more natural for me and feel less extraneous as part of a longer story.