Hmm.

[sabinelagrande]

There is a question I have been wondering about for a long time, flist, because I am fascinated by how writers write, and also because I am a pervert.

Do you get turned on when you're writing?

Like, the subject of porny fanfic- specifically my reaction to it- kind of mystifies me. For, like, a really long time, I didn't even understand that people got off on NC-17 fanfic, even though I read, like, a billionty words of it. Yeah, idk either. It just... didn't occur to me that people did that. And I am given to understand that other people find the act of writing exciting, but I have no idea how that even works. I find it satisfying, but in a completely nonsexual way. I am friggin too distracted by trying to find the right words to get turned on. I don't even find stories that I've written hot most of the time, because I'm still distracted by word choices and stylistic things, etc. etc.

I have, however, made myself weep copiously. So idk. You'd think they were similar.

So I wonder, Flist. Your thoughts?

(Unrelated: Watching Lucy, Daughter of the Devil, and of course, because it's H. Jon Benjamin, I keep seeing Archer every time Satan speaks. However, it occurs to me that they're... oddly similar. And this pleases me.)

This entry was automagically crossposted from http://sabinetzin.dreamwidth.org/396368.html. comments over there.

Comments

[gaffsie.livejournal.com]

Writing is too involved for me to get turned on while doing it. The idea for the story might be a turn-on, but that's about it.

TMI TMI who doesn't love TMI

[sarahofcroydon.livejournal.com]

I haven't written porn in ages, but when I wrote it I rarely got turned on by it (often because it was comedy porn). I think I was like you; concentrating too much on words and descriptions, not to mention I couldn't write a fic in one go.

I've never gotten off on fanfic either, so to speak... I'm more likely to recall scenes from a story (or a few) while merrily on my way. The only time I've ever been turned on by my own fiction was around the time I decided I should probably find out about what this masturbation thing was but I suspect I was horny in general around that time anyway (late bloomer :')

[leiascully.livejournal.com]

I can think of for sure two stories that I've written where I've had to, ahem, take a little break. But most of them? Nah.

Sometimes reading it turns me on to a point where I have to do something about it, but usually, it's just kind of a mental satisfaction.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I have gotten turned on by my own fic. In one case it was a fic where I didn't even like the pairing much but just wrote it to see if I could.

It doesn't usually happen, but it happens sometimes. But usually not until I re-read the scene, as opposed to when I'm actually writing it.

[kashmir1.livejournal.com]

When I read porny fic, I get turned on, but I don't get excited writing porny fic. I'm too focused on the logistics, or the grammar, or word choice, or a bazillion other things.

[aliaras.livejournal.com]

I do, in fact, get turned on writing my fic. Mostly because, when I write fic, it is always Relevant To My Interests, and so to figure out how the scene goes I start imagining it, and then boom, porn.

Once I write the fic, though, I'm done. I won't be turned on by it on any number of rereadings.

[seekergeek.livejournal.com]

Yep, sure do. I'm writing to my kinks that I love the most, hitting them square on. I get hot rereading my own stuff too.

Apparently I'm shameless. *g*