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Post by snacky on Feb 5, 2015 5:51:14 GMT
There are two parts uploaded of the second story. There may or may not be more. I have to admit that I'd rather leave everyone to their own imagination when it comes to sex scenes. One of my favourite authors writes great books but she only ever tried one sex scene, it was important for the book but not well written, she leaves it to the imagination now and I'm fine with that. I'd rather imagine than have a poorly written scene. I'm not sure if I'm up to it. I totally agree - even if you are writing smut, rated X (I'm still shocked FF.net has a rated R section, frankly - that's why it never occurred to me to check there for MM fic before), you are better off letting the reader's imagination do most of the work. Their imagination is ALWAYS juicier than what you would write down. What you would write down is the trite distillation of a thousand imaginations that fit into the well-structured story archetype, whereas each reader will have had a *unique* experience to draw upon. This is where the Tea and Crumpets lady missed MM's opportunities to be "edgy". Spelling out the porn on TV is not so edgy any more: it's been done before. It's a cliche. MM, on the other hand, uses it's power to "suggest" in the direction of adult themes. If MM were just avoiding adult themes, then it would be the "Tea and Crumpets" show or, worse, a show that belongs on the Disney Channel - or maybe even an Afterschool Special! But if the power to "suggest" is just as likely to take the viewer's mind to those "dark places" that William is so worried about - well that's pretty edgy. For me an MM hat trick would be a show with an intricate history-laden mystery, an episode that made me truly care about the outcome for William, and one that made me believe that wallpaper-melting nookie was going to be happening off camera to alleviate some of that tension.  |
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Post by Hodge on Feb 5, 2015 6:04:27 GMT
The vid is on my HD only. I suspect it's way too big to upload to the board and I have no idea how to upload it anyway. The song was Roxette's It Must Have Been Love which I hadn't heard for years, I came across it again recently and I thought hmm.... I have seen the music thread, in fact I loved one of the songs and downloaded it. I have a CD in the van of music that reminds me of MM. Ooh, that's a great song! I'm sure CC could help you with uploading to YouTube! It won't be going on YouTube, which I could handle if I wanted it up there. I may put it here if I can reduce the size without reducing the quality too much. |
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Post by Hodge on Feb 5, 2015 6:06:52 GMT
There are two parts uploaded of the second story. There may or may not be more. I have to admit that I'd rather leave everyone to their own imagination when it comes to sex scenes. One of my favourite authors writes great books but she only ever tried one sex scene, it was important for the book but not well written, she leaves it to the imagination now and I'm fine with that. I'd rather imagine than have a poorly written scene. I'm not sure if I'm up to it. I totally agree - even if you are writing smut, rated X (I'm still shocked FF.net has a rated R section, frankly - that's why it never occurred to me to check there for MM fic before), you are better off letting the reader's imagination do most of the work. Their imagination is ALWAYS juicier than what you would write down. What you would write down is the trite distillation of a thousand imaginations that fit into the well-structured story archetype, whereas each reader will have had a *unique* experience to draw upon. This is where the Tea and Crumpets lady missed MM's opportunities to be "edgy". Spelling out the porn on TV is not so edgy any more: it's been done before. It's a cliche. MM, on the other hand, uses it's power to "suggest" in the direction of adult themes. If MM were just avoiding adult themes, then it would be the "Tea and Crumpets" show or, worse, a show that belongs on the Disney Channel - or maybe even an Afterschool Special! But if the power to "suggest" is just as likely to take the viewer's mind to those "dark places" that William is so worried about - well that's pretty edgy. For me an MM hat trick would be a show with an intricate history-laden mystery, an episode that made me truly care about the outcome for William, and one that made me believe that wallpaper-melting nookie was going to be happening off camera to alleviate some of that tension. Well said!  I assume you read all I posted. Btw, I found another short ditty I wrote after What Lies Buried about William's guilt after the fact, may post it, it's very short again. I don't do novels. |
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Post by snacky on Feb 5, 2015 6:08:14 GMT
Ooh, that's a great song! I'm sure CC could help you with uploading to YouTube! It won't be going on YouTube, which I could handle if I wanted it up there. I may put it here if I can reduce the size without reducing the quality too much. Vimeo? |
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Post by Hodge on Feb 5, 2015 6:09:29 GMT
It won't be going on YouTube, which I could handle if I wanted it up there. I may put it here if I can reduce the size without reducing the quality too much. Vimeo? Nope will not be posted to any video site. It's not that it's personal but I'm not into putting things out there for everyone to see. |
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Post by snacky on Feb 5, 2015 6:10:53 GMT
Well said! I assume you read all I posted. Btw, I found another short ditty I wrote after What Lies Buried about William's guilt after the fact, may post it, it's very short again. I don't do novels. Yes, I'm enjoying every luscious word! Glad you finally got your muse on! Ooh, angst! |
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Post by snacky on Feb 5, 2015 6:12:54 GMT
Nope will not be posted to any video site. It's not that it's personal but I'm not into putting things out there for everyone to see. Hmm, this is what concerns me about you putting your fic here, since this site comes up on Google and has no privacy controls. This is as public as it can get. Are you okay with that?  |
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Post by Hodge on Feb 5, 2015 6:18:21 GMT
Nope will not be posted to any video site. It's not that it's personal but I'm not into putting things out there for everyone to see. Hmm, this is what concerns me about you putting your fic here, since this site comes up on Google and has no privacy controls. This is as public as it can get. Are you okay with that? Yes, for some reason I'm ok with that, perhaps because it's not as obvious as YouTube, Vimeo or even ff.net. It's all a matter of comfort zone. Plus you actually have to find it on this website, it's not indexed. |
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Post by snacky on Feb 5, 2015 6:55:43 GMT
Hmm, this is what concerns me about you putting your fic here, since this site comes up on Google and has no privacy controls. This is as public as it can get. Are you okay with that? Yes, for some reason I'm ok with that, perhaps because it's not as obvious as YouTube, Vimeo or even ff.net. It's all a matter of comfort zone. Plus you actually have to find it on this website, it's not indexed. The posts are indexed. My own posts come up all the time when I'm searching for something on MM. It's embarrassing.  |
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Post by snacky on Feb 5, 2015 7:01:20 GMT
Here's another very short piece I'd forgotten about. It's my attempt at coming to terms with William's role in What Lies Buried. William walked into the room and Julia immediately knew something was wrong. “What is it William? You seem upset.” William just sat on the sofa with his head in his hands. Julia sat next to him and put her arm around his shoulder and waited until he was ready to speak. “Why do I always have to push until I get the truth? Why can’t I just accept if someone confesses?” Julia knew these were rhetorical questions, he didn’t expect an answer, not from her anyway. “What happened William?” “Giles confessed to killing a constable and burying his body in the basement.” Julia looked at William “And why does this upset you so? Giles is hardly a sympathetic person, he’s never been anything but antagonistic towards you.” “For good reason Julia, but that’s beside the point. I’m upset because I didn’t believe him and pushed for the truth, and now the truth is out and I can’t put it back.” William replied. Julia stroked William’s hair and placed her head on his shoulder. “So someone else killed the constable.” it was a statement, she knew it had to be for William to be this upset and it had to be someone he knew and liked. “Who was it?” William looked at her, “Hodge. He’ll be charged with manslaughter, he’ll lose his pension Julia. Why couldn’t I just leave it alone, accept Giles confession?” He shook his head in disgust at himself. You should expand this and set the scene some more! I think this episode called out for this kind of fic from viewers to assuage the emotional turmoil over what happened to Hodge - something that, again, had to be resolved off screen. I have my own fic on this that I never quite got around to finishing. This one was actually closest to being a complete thing, so it might reach escape velocity from my computer HD some day. |
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Post by Hodge on Feb 5, 2015 7:38:01 GMT
Yes, for some reason I'm ok with that, perhaps because it's not as obvious as YouTube, Vimeo or even ff.net. It's all a matter of comfort zone. Plus you actually have to find it on this website, it's not indexed. The posts are indexed. My own posts come up all the time when I'm searching for something on MM. It's embarrassing. I didn't mean indexed on a search engine, they're not indexed on the board so you can't search them out within the board to look for something specific. What comes up on Google can't be helped if we worried about that we'd never be online. Btw, that's why I go by DSH rather than my usual screen name. |
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Post by Hodge on Feb 5, 2015 7:39:50 GMT
Here's another very short piece I'd forgotten about. It's my attempt at coming to terms with William's role in What Lies Buried. William walked into the room and Julia immediately knew something was wrong. “What is it William? You seem upset.” William just sat on the sofa with his head in his hands. Julia sat next to him and put her arm around his shoulder and waited until he was ready to speak. “Why do I always have to push until I get the truth? Why can’t I just accept if someone confesses?” Julia knew these were rhetorical questions, he didn’t expect an answer, not from her anyway. “What happened William?” “Giles confessed to killing a constable and burying his body in the basement.” Julia looked at William “And why does this upset you so? Giles is hardly a sympathetic person, he’s never been anything but antagonistic towards you.” “For good reason Julia, but that’s beside the point. I’m upset because I didn’t believe him and pushed for the truth, and now the truth is out and I can’t put it back.” William replied. Julia stroked William’s hair and placed her head on his shoulder. “So someone else killed the constable.” it was a statement, she knew it had to be for William to be this upset and it had to be someone he knew and liked. “Who was it?” William looked at her, “Hodge. He’ll be charged with manslaughter, he’ll lose his pension Julia. Why couldn’t I just leave it alone, accept Giles confession?” He shook his head in disgust at himself. You should expand this and set the scene some more! I think this episode called out for this kind of fic from viewers to assuage the emotional turmoil over what happened to Hodge - something that, again, had to be resolved off screen. I have my own fic on this that I never quite got around to finishing. This one was actually closest to being a complete thing, so it might reach escape velocity from my computer HD some day. I tend not to write volumes, I get what I want to say out there in as few words as possible, you're lucky it isn't written in point form!  |
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Post by Fallenbelle on Feb 5, 2015 10:07:26 GMT
Ooh, I love it! I've been toying with the idea of writing season 7 severe UST fic, but just haven't made it work. I've been working on a tag to Ragtime for a while, but it just hasn't come together. I think like you-frustrated by the lack of season 8 Jilliam, I've been trying to correct/flesh out season 8 episodes and that's been my focus of late. However, I would love to see this fleshed out a bit-I'm sad I didn't take this angle. Okay Fallenbelle, I opted to take up the challenge. I guess this means I'll have to attempt more, may not be for a couple of days though. Here's part two: Warning, adult content! Highlight the font to read. Julia took William by the hand and led him to the door, fumbling in her reticule for the door key. She looked around to see if anyone had seen them but the street was empty. She really didn’t need to once again be the object of rumours when she’d finally managed to repair her tattered reputation. Opening the door she pushed a stunned and confused William inside ahead of her. Taking one more look around the street Julia closed the door, locking it behind her. The still stunned William hung up his hat as Julia unpinned and removed hers. Then he helped her with her coat and stepped in front to hang it up. Before he had chance to turn around Julia slipped his jacket from his shoulders. He took it from her and hung it up beneath his hat. When he turned around Julia was standing right in front of him, she put her arms around his neck and kissed him deeply moulding her body to his. In control of his senses now, this was exactly what William had envisioned.
William wrapped his arms around Julia placing one around her hips and drawing her in to him whilst pressing himself tightly against her body. She released his lips and looked him in the eye. “Why now William? I thought you wanted to wait until we were married.” “I do … I did, but my body won’t wait any longer.” Picking her up by her hips William set her down on the hall table, he wrested apart the buttons of her blouse and threw up her skirt exposing her bloomers. Oh my, Julia thought, her fantasy was coming true, William was going to take her right there, right then. She hadn’t even had chance to remove his tie.Oh, myyyyyyy! More, more! |
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Post by snacky on Feb 5, 2015 23:37:20 GMT
Okay Fallenbelle, I opted to take up the challenge. I guess this means I'll have to attempt more, may not be for a couple of days though. Here's part two: Warning, adult content! Highlight the font to read. Oh, myyyyyyy! More, more! Yes, why is it stopping there...?  |
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Post by Hodge on Feb 6, 2015 0:25:40 GMT
Oh, myyyyyyy! More, more! Yes, why is it stopping there...? I think we went over that snacky.... |
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