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[svollga]

What I really hate about last-days-till-deadline period is that this is the period I get tons of ideas and thoughts all boiling in my head (because my job is intellectual but mechanical at the same time), and I don't have any time to work on them, and they just keep growing.

Now, I suddenly have a desire to write in two more fandoms, both with het pairings which is totally new area for me. Well, not entirely new - but I've been writing slash since my first fanfic (which included a one male/six females orgy and male/male final pairing), and I tend to think of myself as a slasher. So, I feel like I'm walking into a strange land.

Actually, while writing this, I remebered that I have some het stories, or het pairings in multypairing stories. But the only time I had to write about developing het relationship was in a Gwen/Hart bdsm-done-wrong!story, which doesn't quite qualify as experience in writing het.

But do I really have to have experience in writing het? I discovered that it is easier to me to think about the stories if I forget that the characters are of different sex, because then, I plan it like a slash story. On the other hand, being male and female is an important part of their personalities and their dynamic, and I know it. Alex/Gene won't be the same if Alex were male, it would be more like Sam/Gene. Prentiss/Hotch has tons of additional bits to it because of Prentiss being female - a possibility of pregnancy, Hotch's distrust to women...

On the other hand, it makes it all the more interesting. I'm working on my own internalized prejudice this last year - misogyny and heterophobia, among other things - and writing het would be a very useful experience. (I already tried my hand in writing femslash, and made a good job with it in PWP, though now I want to write some long story with adventures and character development and relationship development.)

Comments

[milkymoon]

It's pretty interesting how romantic dynamics can be affected by the genders of your characters. I personally don't write fan fiction, but I do occasionally write fiction with romantic overtones, and I find writing het love stories different from writing gay or lesbian ones. (I tend to gravitate towards writing lesbian characters, mostly because there's just something about writing two women.)

[ellia]

I don't think you need experience in writing het, if you've got a story you want to tell then go for it. It can be hard to move out of your writing comfort zone, when i first started writing fic, i kept away from het and femmeslash, because i found myself putting too much of myself into the female characters, and ending up with them feeling too personal. I'm trying to move past that now i'm a little more confident in my writing, and am hoping to write at least a couple of femmeslash and het fics for kink_bingo this year. I'll be interested in hearing how yours works out, i love reading about the way people write.