Another Aargle!: ff.net

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I rarely visit ff.net any more other than to dig up old recs, reviews and favourites, but their recent 'Check-on-your-Neighbours-and-Report-them-for-Pracising-the-Fanfic-Writing-Equivalent-of-Witchcraft' really bugs me to no end.

It would be disgraceful enough if they followed the Informer policy in secret, but openly advocating reporting as they do at the moment is disgusting.

Not to mention that their habit of deleting accounts without notice, explanation or consideration for borderline rating cases isn't just an insult to the authors, but also to everybody who has written , or received, reviews for/from the 'guilty parties', all of which are gone when an account is deleted, of course!

And I still haven't forgiven all the great stories and authors that were lost when they enforced the NC-17 purge!

I just wish I were consequent enough to boycott that site altogether...

"Status Report, Subcommander Hijja?"

... oops, wrong fandom :).

Things Finished:

* posted revised version of The Cat and the Star to various sites
* finished my Voldemort/Harry piece Stand Together (very provisional title), to go out to the beta tomorrow
* did quite a bit of beta-reading


Things To Be Finished:

* a lot more beta-reading
* a piece inspired by a comment from beren_writes about what would happen if Voldemort adhered to the recommendations of the Evil Overlord Manual in his attempts to get rid of Harry...


Things Unfinished:

* stares at the dozen or so story fragments in her 'work'-folder and screams
* turning the mass of ideas/images in my head into a coherent plot for the 'Lucius-in-Azkaban' piece for rfachir
* one Harry/Draco parody, that two or three more train rides should be able to get done
* two half-finished NC-17 fics, Turnabout (Harry/Ron/Draco) and Untitled (Ron/Lucius). Well, add a third, *very* non-con Harry/Lucius/Draco self-challenge that scares me silly...


And finally... *huggles* riibu, just because :).

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Writing Those Infernal Sex Scenes

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I know I've whined about it before, but they give me hell every time. I start a fic, I know exactly what's going to happen, I write up to the smut (and often the endings, too), and then balk at the sex. I could kick myself for prudishness (that *has* to be it, I guess), although it's only a problem when it comes to writing - I can read anything.

Does anyone share that problem? Does anyone know how to *deal* with that problem?

Because I have some stories I really like and would like to finish, but am not looking forward to spending three or four months trying *not* to run away from the keyboard after every sentence... Because that's been my technique so far, and there *have* to be better ways :).

Advice would be much appreciated!

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