On Writing #6

I'm alit with inspiration and I also may be loosing my sanity a little bit.

I've written roundabouts of nine thousand words in the last two days. And a half. Maybe. I can't remember when it was that I really started writing, I just know that words are flowing more freely than they have in years, for me. Maybe it's because the fic I'm writing is humanized and therefore familiar and, well, kind of easy in that regard. Maybe it's because the humanized Rainbow Dash is only half Rainbow Dash and half me when I was her age. I don't know what it is, but I hope it doesn't end because I'm addicted and in love with writing again.

I also read over one of my WIPs, and I loved everything that was written with only a minor overall complaint--the one that has always bothered me about the fic but is so deeply ingrained in the fic itself that to fix it I would have to re-write the entire thing. Also, the ending escapes me. I don't fucking know how to put it to rest, and a re-read of it has garnered no solutions to the conundrum, but I remain hopeful. I'm really good at endings in general. I get this buzz at the back of my head when I write THE ending line, like my brain going "Yep, this is the one, end it riiight here." So endings have always been easy for me.

Eh, it's whatever. I'm not touching anything except Last Love, Everlasting for however long this bout of inspiration lasts. Except maybe that one fic that I'm editing for, currently. The one with the humanized lesbian ponuses that far eclipses anything that I could imagine up. I'm looking at you, good sir Merc.

Anyway, yeah. You know, it occurs to me that this fic that I'm pouring my heart and soul into probably won't get a lot of hits. This site has kind of a stigma against the 'humanized' genre. I've never understood it, and I know it will work against me. But frankly, I don't care. I think that the story that I'm writing is decent enough to be published, so I'm gonna throw it up here and then change some stuff around so that its not about humanized ponuses--and probably not about humanized lesbian ponuses, since today's romance genre is still dominated by the-same-five-heterosexual-stories-except-with-different-circumstances-and-slightly-different-characters. (But I suppose that if Nora Roberts can make like 300 books using that formula, then the rest of the world can, too.)

Popular fiction with prominent, serious homosexual characters and couples are not the norm, is my point. But Fifty Shades of Gray is also... well, being itself and doing fucking great on the market, so any and everything is possible! We live in a time where publishing a book is apparently not as impossible and intimidating as I've always thought it to be.

So there's that. Anyway, I'mma get back to writing even though it's almost three o'clock in the morning down here. Stay frosty, yeah?

Also, have this since it is the entire inspiration for the fic I'm ranting about: