I've noticed as I sifted through this part of the site that we never had a topic that directly addressed a chance to divulge our stories freely. If it's fine, I'd say we can just rant away with what we like about our stories, what we didn't like, what we want to have in, where we got the inspiration from, how long you've been working at it on, why haven't we updated in so long, what other ideas for stories you've in mind, et cetera, et cetera. It's part interview, part exposè, part shameless self-promotion. Just be wary not to give away any spoilers. Adieu!

http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2353120/1/

It's a short little one-shot that wouldn't go away until I wrote it down - y'know how that goes. The inspiration was simply the idea of a young and (relatively) old man having to Go Elsewhere and Start Over together. Ooooooo, angsty. :)

Meanwhile my novel-sized furry slash-fic is still waiting... for me to get time. It's been in rather short supply lately. And will be for two more days.

My newest: Deux Ex Machina. Experimental historical fiction, WWII era, vignettes and 12th Night rewrites (oh my!). Reviewers would be loved until the end of existance.

Why? It was written when I was just getting the hang of writing, what, with all that vocab and picturesque mentals images that came to mind. But I wasn't good enough to write something that was REALLY more like a good quality high fantasy novel. The grammatical structure and the spelling was alright, yeah, but there were a lot of block paragraphs of needless description, the plot needed some work, there were a lot of cliches, and well, I'd say it just sucked in general. And when you've written it through to a middle, it's so hard to go back and fix it up without chucking a few things out because you've already established so and so.

At the moment, I've got chapters one to five of a newer version written in note form in a notebook somewhere. I want to get rid of what's unnecessary and basically cliche, especially when it comes to a 'super sentai' sort of character line up. Quite the opposite of advertising- it's self-effacing. Blah!

I have a story called "Braced" I put up here - and I hated it five chapters in but I went all the way because I wanted to prove to myself I could be "nice" in a story - but it's not my writing style at all! I hate the thing, but it seemed to have been my most popular piece only because of the summary. AGH.

Aaand, I finished Hard Candy draft 1 yesterday! YAY! I get to start rewrites now so I can pimp it out.

I wish us both the best of luck with our respective stories, Alysha. ^^

Whenever the drive to write arises, you're stuck with university studies, work, chores, etc, and you've got no time. And whenever you do have the time to write, you're stumped. That cursor there keeps blinking vacantly as you try to think of something to write about.

FictionPress isn't really to be taken seriously, anyway. If you post your "best" (and when I say "best", I use it pretty loosely) work up then, what's going to happen when you want it published? (And here we come back to First Print Rights and tedious publishing laws...) But still, all the best for you when the busy period dies down, aye?

Privacy, an isolated environment, and silence works best for me. *shrugs*

and I don't pretend that my work is publishable, or even that good. I think that's the downfall of the FP slash writer -- thinking that your work is effing amazing.

and some of us actually have no intention of ever publishing anything (I know! SHOCK! HORROR!). I have no desire to write fiction for a living. Instead, I'm happy writing silly little slash stories to post here.

as far as my work, I have several things brewing in my head (including slash one-shots about famous artists/writers -- one of which I've already written [a Gauguin/Van Gogh thingy] and many other ideas)

But my main project is 'Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy', which was my response to many stories (slash and non-slash) on this site that feature "horse people" or "horses" or "cowboys" and the writers obviously have no clue what they're talking about. I'm a horse person (like riding at least 4 days a week for hours on end, have owned my own, want to work in the horse business when I graduate from college), so it annoys me. So I did a slash story about cowboys. Teenage cowboys, who are somewhat based on some boys I know (yes, I went to high school with real cowboys on a real ranch). Hopefully it isn't too cliche ;)

the link is here, if anyone's interested: http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2337116/1/

and for those of you whose work I read (aka: most of you), I'm sorry I never review. really. I always mean to.

that's the other thing I never seem to have time for -- reviewing.

I think most writers think their stuff is shitty. It turns out the stuff I like the most is actual shit and the shit I wrote in kind of an eh-mood is my better works. It sucks. Anyways, I always get struck by inspiration when I am no where near a pen or pencil so I go into this endless daze thinking about my fic and then the people around me think I am retarded for being so spacey. *shock* I wish I could get my stuff published, clearly not anything I post here, but I do feel like writing, flirting, and whining are my only talents...

It is good not everyone on the site writes slash because in a way that does weed out the crap of the crop. Of course, there are crap slashes (read mine!!) but think about it like this: if there wasn't crap, then you wouldn't know when you struck gold! See its the whole: is the glass half empty or half full?

You should review. I think most people are driven to write more because of reviews. Its sad, but if we wanted to write for the "sake" of it, then we probably wouldn't have posted them anyway. We all post shit here in hopes of getting an insane amount of praise... come on... we all know it.

PS

In my art history class, we spoke about how Van Gogh was a drunk, had no idea what he was doing, and probably was bisexual haha...

and I agree with basically everything else you said. lol.

In my art history class, we talked about how he was bipolar, syphilis infested, probably had hypergraphia, and was a very fickle "friend", which I took to mean "slut". lol. I just couldn't resist the idea of van gogh and gauguin as lovers. I mean, there has to be a romantic relationship (or a sexual relationship) involved if one man gets pissed enough to chase the other down with a knife....

or it could have been the syphilis rotting his brain.

But I also found it amusing that van gogh probably had syphilis, theo died of syphilis, as did gauguin and... pretty much everyone who lived in France at the end of the 19th century. I figured they all had to have been gay or bi and messing around with each other, or they all shared the same prostitute... and of course, I think we know which option I liked best ;)

I know what you mean about some slash writers thinking their work is awesome...I read over my stories and every time i find new things to hate!

I have only found few stories on the site that I would describe as 'awesome', but I HAVE found a heap of good and even great stories.

My two main works in progress:

The Barricade: Lucas, and aspiring cartoonist finds himself in a relationship with Fynn - the son of the owner of one of the biggest law firms in the city. Lucas muses on the past as he sits through Fynn's wedding to a 'suitable partner' - a woman. The time shifts between during and the demise of the relationship, and the future. Sounds a little cliche I guess, but I don't really know how to summarise it well.

Rooftops and Ceilings: Teddy, A spoilt boy with no direction in life, is in love with both a boy and a girl, and the three are all convinced that they are in love. In his final year of school, Teddy spends the weekdays sleeping, and the weekends taking drugs or drinking madly with his lovers, but is forced to attend church every Sunday morning with his mother, who is on her way to a mental breakdown. Being sucked into painting the backdrops for a school musical he unenthusiastically gets to know the deceased ministers son, Noah.

uuhh that one didn't sound good either. The stories are a little different to my descriptions...Summaries are the hardest things to write...I don't ever think i'd get anywhere in the blurb business!

I was hoping that some of you could read!

Here's the link!

This Changes Everything

gogogo!

(thanks for reading!)

Now - like I said - I'm an Old Man, not one of your peer-group, so don't let what I say get ya down. But yeah - I could tell ya a few things you got wrong, but considering everything - your age (assuming I'm right about you being in high school), that it's your first fic, etc - you show promise. And also like I said - in a year, you'll look back on this chap and go "omg - I can't believe I was so proud of that!". lol.

That happens to all of us. Ask anyone.

So - how are you doing it? Just off the top of your head? It's hard to tell with a chap that short... And I can't believe you've been thinking about this for FIVE YEARS... god, how old were you when you first became a yaoi fan-girl? lol

Still thinking about, writing, and developing my story. So far so good. I just have to keep going with it I suppose. It has a good story line.

My main character is a vocalist, famous like Josh Groban (only he’s gay.) The other is an artist who is good enough to paint on the ceilings of large opera houses. However, one is rather depressed and the other is rather slow (or so it seems.)

I’m not giving the title out till I write it, he he.

What kinds of things do you want to see in a slash story? Or, better question, what kinds of things do you want to see in any romance story?

Also, how long do you think a good, fulfilling romance fic should be? (Not that mine will be fulfilling, but I hope it will be close enough.)

I’m wondering if I should develop a couple of villains. (a.k.a jealous vocalists. From personal experience in the vocalist world I know vocalists of both genders can be vicious.)

Hope I can write some more of the story tomorrow. Please give me some advice.

-Skyla

"Demons of the Heart"

http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2398128/1/

"He called him Grace. Grace had a mistress. And I’m his lover’s wife.

It was a cold New York winter with whirling snow flakes and deep purple sky.

They met outside the hospital cafeteria the night of the accident. Theo had only suffered a cut on this forehead from hitting shattering glass, but they brought him in for chest examination; all ribs intact. He’s always been a lucky bastard. I was still sedated and wouldn’t be released for another two weeks with severe concussion and internal bleedings in my lungs. He didn’t sleep at my bedside. Theo was walking around with a paper coffee cup in one hand, enjoying how charming that cut under his ruffled bangs was making him at four in the morning. He made good use of looking shaken and vulnerable. He was a playboy and nothing could change that, not even being married to me. But Grace changed it. Grace changed it all."

Do tell anything you think! XD Anything from feedback to what you think will happen/would like to see happen.

I'm stuck on a few things. First is the POV. Well I like the POV, but I don't know if she should be present or not mentioned. The other stuff I'll have to just take care of.

Thankies!

http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2409431/1/

A cliche bad date story where the helping friend ends up giving unusal advice about penis sandwiches and such.

I *think* I know what you're talking about... Don't see a lot of that in slash fics, tho. Usually it's anal, anal, anal.

Now I have to go to French class. Ew. College.

Hear, hear! (Or is it here? I think it's hear...)

I think I've only read two stories with it in them, one of those being yours, Lysh.

moar plz...

We REVIEWZ hte interwebz for sexxorz! Lol. Peft. I'm sure research could have been done, I just don't think it would have been done.

I can assure you though, Lainny. I will write it again. In fact, I was debating writing right now. Hmm. Porn time?

My point with this one is to keep the guys as guys. You know how us slash-writers are - most of the boys are just girls in disguise. And I'm as guilty of that as any of the yaoi fan-girls... So I just thought I'd see what it'd be like if the guys were... y'know... guys. :)

http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2414254/1/

I'll pimp my new story here too!

http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2422345/1/

It's different from my usual writings...but it's an idea that came to me that I had to instantly write down. :)