In which I say Happy Birthday. And then whine.

[brigdh]

Happy birthday kohakutenshi!




Me: *writes several paragraphs*
*goes back to reread*
*sighs and deletes them all*
Me: Okay, we need to have a talk. Listen to this: "Hisoka tilts his head and kisses him. The man lifts one hand, slowly, and cups Hisoka's face, his fingers curling around to his hair. His thumb traces over Hisoka's cheekbone in an infinitely gentle movement, and Hisoka shivers, inching forward to seat himself in the man's lap." What is up with that?
Hisoka: I don't see anything wrong with it.
Me: It's supposed to be *HATESEX*!
Hisoka: ...Are you sure?
Me: Uh, yeah.
Hisoka: You've got to be wrong. It's Tsuzuki. I can't have hatesex with him.
Me: This is an AU. You don't know him. You're not in love with him. Right now, the only thing you feel towards him is a whole bunch of anger.
Hisoka: I don't want to do this.
Me: It's not that hard. Just pretend that you're not sickeningly in love with him.
Hisoka: I'm not sicke-
Me: You're fooling no one.
Hisoka: Shut up.
Me: Look, you only have to do it once, I promise. Every other sex scene for the entire rest of the fic, you can be as nice and sweet as you want.
Hisoka: Fine. If it means that much to you.
Me: Except for the time when you cheat on him.
Hisoka: WHAT?
Me: I've, uh... got to go.

In other words, the characters are being frustrating, the writing is going insanely slow, it hasn't stopped raining in twenty-four hours, and the soup I cooked for dinner was really yucky. Wah. The universe conspires against me.

Comments

[katsue_fox]

Hey, the universe might be conspiring against you, but I loved that conversation!! ^_^

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks. ^^

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should just write the scene as an outtake, to get it done with so you can move on?

This suggestion has nothing to do with my general fondness for the pairing. *blinks innocently*

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I would, except that never works for me. I spend a lot of time writing the outtake, but when I start the actual fic again, I'm right back where I started. Alas.

But I find there's nothing like complaining in public to make a problem go away. As soon as I've whined about it in front of strangers, the embarrassingly simple solution reveals itself. It's foolproof.

[rinoared.livejournal.com]

So. True. Any problem can dissolve as long as I get the guts to whiiiiine about it.

But the little conversation was too hilarious. It's so Hisoka.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

It's the "making a fool of yourself" factor. The universe never fails to pass up a chance to do that.

And hee. XD Thanks.

[clari-clyde.livejournal.com]

Don’t you just love how characters take over you? I’m trying to write a fic where Muraki kidnaps Tsuzuki and Tatsumi comes to the rescue. It was supposed to focus on Muraki and Tatsumi trying to go seme on each other except i got suckered into writing a scene with Muraki molesting Tsuzuki.

Me: No! You’re supposed to wait for Tatsumi!
Muraki: But Tsuzuki is naked, tied, and I’ve cast a spell on him taking away his voice. And I think you know what a good show I’d give you if you let me have my way.
Me: *melts* oh… but… oh…

And Hisoka cheating Tsuzuki? Ooooh. With who? And how?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Dude. I cannot wait to see that fic. Write, write!

And nyah. :p I shall say no more, because it'd give away big plot points to explain how it happens.

[nettlecoats.livejournal.com]

Hisoka: I'm not sicke-
Me: You're fooling no one.
Hisoka: Shut up.

Mwah ha ha, not even alternate universes and their random sexual encounters can foil the power of true love! :D Uh, hope the characters start cooperating soon. ^_^ I'd take the rain for you - I haven't seen the stuff in about nine months now.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*weeps* I know! I'm completely incapable of writing a Hisoka who's not utterly in love with Tsuzuki. The curse of an OTP, man.

And wow, nine whole months? It must look like a desert around you.

[nettlecoats.livejournal.com]

It rains roughly biannually where my college is in Southern California (vegetation is watered on a regular basis, but it's not quite the same as having the water coming from the sky and all), and my one month at home this summer is during a dry spell. I'm getting nostalgic about mold. ;_;

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ouch. I'm not all that enthuastic about rain, but getting it that rarely would make even me long for it.

[gamera.livejournal.com]

Universe against you or no, that outtake conversation is hilarious. :p

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

XD Thanks!

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

maybe you should listen to Hisoka. And besides, isn't it more interesting if it's sweet and gentle and nice and Hisoka feels all weird about it afterward? OMG I am such a romance HOOR.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Meh. But it'd be wrong for this AU Hisoka to have romanatic sex. At least now; he mellows out later.

Though like I said, it's just this once. And it's not really hatesex so much as it is "Man, you piss me off, oh wait, that feels really good, don't stop, I'm gonna kiss you some more now, mmmkay?" sex.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wasn't thinking romantic really-- just more tender than expected, if that makes sense. And sex! Yay!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*nods* I see what you mean. And that's... pretty much how I ended up writing it. XD Yay for your psychic powers?

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Yay for you listening to Hisoka after all?

[redshoeson.livejournal.com]

Your characters-in-your-head conversations crack me up. Loffly.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

^_^ Thanks!

And how are you? *petspets* Having a better day?

[redshoeson.livejournal.com]

Steadily worse, but there's nothing I can do until Monday, so I'm gonna smile my best smile. ^^

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

God, that's funny. I look forward to the story itself, but I'm glad you let us read that little argument in the meantime.

I'm also glad to see that not only am I not the only one who finds herself having this kind of conversation, I'm in excellent company. And yeah, the characters can be frustrating like that; but don't you find that they'll always tell you something useful if you let them?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked. I worried that I was being too self-indulgent by posting it, but hey, if it amused people, I live to please.

And I think everyone has conversations like that. At least good writers; it's a sign that you actually know and respect your characters. They are useful, though. Writing always turns out so much better, more interesting, when they've been talking.

[childofatlantis.livejournal.com]

Is this the clubbing AU? *grin* And I am SO GLAD that it's not just me who has conversations like that with Hisoka. The AU has so far been one long argument between me and him. With occasional dirty remarks from Watari...

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yes, 'tis!

*laughs* XD Hisoka's a bit of a brat. I can never convince him to do anything he doesn't want to, no matter how much I beg and plead and swear that it'll make the plot work out so much better.

[kohakutenshi.livejournal.com]

Ah thank you. Though the birthday sucked like a Hoover 5000 on a floor mat. >.<

But hey, oh well oh well, I guess. And I see you have a Hisoka-muse, too! Does he poke you in the middle of work/eating/sleeping with the pointy idea stick, too?

Hee... :) At least I got one of those big cookies for my birthday, but I was too drunk and tired to eat any, and went to bed at 7:30pm. >.> *twitch*

*hugs*

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Aw, I'm so sorry! *hugs* But, hey, big cookies are good! And if you didn't eat them yesterday, that just means you have them today. ^^

And heh. Hisoka-muses can be violent, huh?

[kohakutenshi.livejournal.com]

Very mean. Though it's usually like this..

Hisoka: "Write this fic idea..."
Me: "No."
Hisoka: *jab jab jab jab jab*
Me: "If you don't stop poking me with that idea stick, I'm going to write your rape OVER AND OVER AND OVER again."
Hisoka: *disappears*
Me: "Bastard."
Muraki: "You know..."
Me: *buries head in arms* "Oh for the love of God..."

:)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

XD Hee.

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

Just write "with barely restrained fury" after "Hisoka shivers" and there you go, hatesex :)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oooooo. That totally works. Thank you!

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

It's what I'm here for.