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rionaleonhart) wrote2007-05-17 10:02 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2007-05-17 10:02 pm
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I'm Sure There's A Point In Here Somewhere.
Sometimes I wonder whether I'm really 'qualified' to write the things I do. I've never kissed anyone in a way I wouldn't kiss my mother, after all.
I, er, do realise that I haven't experienced telepathy or unexpectedly waking up in the wrong body, either, but these are things that can't be experienced in the world in which we live, so there's rather more freedom when portraying them than there is when you're writing intimate scenes. Nobody is going to read my fanfiction and say 'Now, hang on, you can't make it harder for people to read your mind by singing in your head.' At least, I bloody well hope they're not going to. There's every chance, though, that a person more experienced than I am is going to be brought up short during one of my fics and go 'Hang on, that doesn't sound remotely pleasurable.' Or 'I SWEAR THAT ISN'T PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE', I suppose, which would be terribly embarrassing.
I'm not entirely certain why I'm thinking about this; it's not as if I ever write anything remotely explicit, after all. But I do write about snogging and the occasional vague sex scene, and I sometimes wonder whether my lack of experience ever shows through in my writing.
It is possibly slightly odd that this is the only thing that bothers me about my lack of a sex life.
I, er, do realise that I haven't experienced telepathy or unexpectedly waking up in the wrong body, either, but these are things that can't be experienced in the world in which we live, so there's rather more freedom when portraying them than there is when you're writing intimate scenes. Nobody is going to read my fanfiction and say 'Now, hang on, you can't make it harder for people to read your mind by singing in your head.' At least, I bloody well hope they're not going to. There's every chance, though, that a person more experienced than I am is going to be brought up short during one of my fics and go 'Hang on, that doesn't sound remotely pleasurable.' Or 'I SWEAR THAT ISN'T PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE', I suppose, which would be terribly embarrassing.
I'm not entirely certain why I'm thinking about this; it's not as if I ever write anything remotely explicit, after all. But I do write about snogging and the occasional vague sex scene, and I sometimes wonder whether my lack of experience ever shows through in my writing.
It is possibly slightly odd that this is the only thing that bothers me about my lack of a sex life.