Writing Post 2019

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If you give anyone coal you lose your rights to the good egg list. 

NYR due before you sign up for 2019 Yuletide.
Prompts revealed and Madness opens: Approx 9 November
Default deadline: 11 December, 9am UTC
Assignment deadline: 18 December, 9am UTC
Main Collection Reveals: 25 December (Countdown)

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Comments

Re: Helpdesk: Word choice, Fact checks, Sex positions

[(Anonymous)]

For me, if I'm using euphemisms, I'm talking about characters moving in/on/against each other, and there are no actual outright descriptions of aroused genitalia, that's M. Once I've gotten genuinely ... well, explicit ... about sex acts, or am starting to describe the colors/fluids dripping off of/visual appearance of naked genitals, that's E.

Re: Helpdesk: Word choice, Fact checks, Sex positions

[(Anonymous)]

SC

And I guess I should expand a little and say - so bumping from one to the other just depends on whether I've got those specifics in mind and really feel like it suits my intentions with the story to include them. For me, there are some characters whose POVs just don't lend themselves to E-rated fic; and sometimes the emotional point of a scene isn't the sex itself but something happening before or after, in which case zooming in on the fucking at that level of detail doesn't serve that point.

But sometimes the point is the sex, or something specific that's going on during it (first time bottoming for a dude who's struggled with that, say, in an internalized homophobia fic) and in that case E's probably the better option. Or sometimes the point of the fic is in fact the porning for porn's own sake, and that means E all the way.

Re: Helpdesk: Word choice, Fact checks, Sex positions

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, it’s about intentions with the story. I’m thinking along the same lines and M seems like a better stylistic choice in this case. Thank you!