Drabble Night, July 24, 2004

The theme was "Dark Arts." (And nimori slew me and turned me into Zombie!Amanuensis with her Snape/Lupin vampire bite drabble. Was a miracle I could write anything at all after that. Go see her journal when she puts hers up!)

( Three drabbles. Lucius/Twins, Lupin/Snape, Harry/Draco. )

A month of smut!

I seem to have done something that looks a little mad. I've taken on 14 challenges for the pornish_pixies Fantasy Fest. That wouldn't be such a big deal except they're all due at the end of August. Now, I still don't think that's as mad as it sounds, because it's no worse than the awesome challenge a whole bunch of you met for the pervy_werewolf's Lusty Month of May challenge. This one isn't even a fic a day, pah.

Lemme explain why I'm doing this: I've written smutty stories in the Potterverse because I fell in love with the idea, and the Potterverse was what inspired the stories: those pairings, those scenarios. Recently my pace of fic-producing has been a lot slower, and that's because, well, I've written all the ideas which, so far, screamed to me, "You are inspired to write this because of the Potterverse." I've got ideas for smut which could be made to fit the Potterverse, but, see, that isn't quite what I want to do with those ideas. If I don't need Harry and Lucius and Sirius and Voldemort to make me write the stories, then I'd rather write those as original fic.

However, I do not have any deadline on writing original fic, and I'm not worrying about finding an agent or publisher at this point, and I don't get to share it with the rest of you in fandom, and I LIKE sharing things with all of you.

So, this fest. A fest where a whole bunch of you said, "You know what I'd really like to see? A smutty story about THIS, just tailored for my favorite fantasies." And your fantasies are delicious, guys, they really are. I love you all so much.

So for the next month, I'll be writing stories which will undeniably make my inner editor say, for a number of them (especially the femmeslash), "These didn't need to be fanfiction, you know. They're PWP in a manner that you're quite capable of writing in an original universe." And I'll reply, "Yes, but they're fun, and they're making people happy (I hope!), and I work best under a deadline, and it's not like there are oodles of erotica anthologies out there saying, 'You know what we reeeeally need? More non-con gay/lesbian porn with fantasy settings!'" Hardly. Well. Not every golf enthusiast has to become a professional golfer, not every person who knits has to sell her scarves for money.

So, um...I will probably be throwing myself on your mercy at intervals and begging for quick-turnaround betas! The ladies in #knockturn were lovely and volunteered all over the place last night--love them all so. (And they have their own stories to write!)

*plunges in*