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Writing for the Confessionals
May. 17th, 2014 02:05 pmSo, um... those of you who know me in RL may have figured out that I'm attracted to heavier guys; which over the years has led me to explore the fat-fetishist tories on the web. Just like fan fiction, the stories vary widely in quality, and range from straight-out porn, to romance in which one or both of the leads happens to be fat and the other one considers that a feature, not a bug.
Lately I've begun trying to write some of the latter; when it got no attention on tumblr, I bit the bullet and submitted it the fiction section of Dimensions Magazine online. It takes a while for their moderators to review things and post them, but the first part went up a couple of days ago and has received some positive comments.
It's an odd thing to be writing in the romance genre, because I never really read it much; it's also odd to be writing something with no SFF content, but still is unlikely to attract a mainstream audience. OTOH, it's kind of liberating to do something this self-indulgent, because as long as I'm at it, I might as well do whatever I want: set the story around a production of Edith Sitwell and William Walton's Façade? Why the hell not. Spend several paragraphs describing how to paint a theatrical backdrop? Not my problem if the audience is bored.
Meanwhile, someone on the boards wants a story that revolves around a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and you know what? I bet I could write that too.
Lately I've begun trying to write some of the latter; when it got no attention on tumblr, I bit the bullet and submitted it the fiction section of Dimensions Magazine online. It takes a while for their moderators to review things and post them, but the first part went up a couple of days ago and has received some positive comments.
It's an odd thing to be writing in the romance genre, because I never really read it much; it's also odd to be writing something with no SFF content, but still is unlikely to attract a mainstream audience. OTOH, it's kind of liberating to do something this self-indulgent, because as long as I'm at it, I might as well do whatever I want: set the story around a production of Edith Sitwell and William Walton's Façade? Why the hell not. Spend several paragraphs describing how to paint a theatrical backdrop? Not my problem if the audience is bored.
Meanwhile, someone on the boards wants a story that revolves around a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and you know what? I bet I could write that too.
