bloodsong1 | Writing Bug Attack

(Or, stream of consciousness writing meets 1.5 mile walk home. You have been warned)

yaaaay! I am finally pants-less! Pants-less is good, especially after a muggy walk with not nearly enough rain to cool you off. I love walking in the rain. It feels soo nice.

*fans self*

I wanna go for a swim, but this writing bug is stronger. Damned writing bug. Hit me this morning on the walk into work and wouldn't let go. Now, these bugs are worse then plot bunnies. Plot bunnies, by their very nature, contain a PLOT, a general story idea the writer can work with. Writing bugs just sit in your brain, chewing on creative synapes and making your fingers twitch without giving you anything useful to work with. All I've gotten is "Epic Romance".

Bah.

I blame the bug, Wolf's Rain and being in heat. And yes, THAT kind of 'in heat'. Thank you Inuyasha. And Wolf's Rain. I'm enjoying this series. I love wolves. They're cool. Especially wolves that can make themselves look human and one's voiced by Crispin Freeman and THAT one wears low cut black pants. Hints of hip bone low cut black pants. I want those pants. I think I'd look damn good in them. Wolf called them 'gay man bar hopping lucky pants'. I don't care. I want those pants. Not the wolf, the pants. Ok, I'd take the wolf too, but only because wolves are cool. I should know, I married one. ^_^ Having a wolf hanging around would be fun.

See, Wolf's Rain is...poignant. And I'm pretty sure I remember how it ends, so the poignancy is hitting me hard and stirring up creative inklings of 'Epic Romance'. Cause I just KNOW Kiva and Chessa aren't gonna be a couple. Wolf. Plant. Not gonna work.

I want to get back into Candy and Kenji's story, but I want conflict in it. Not the usual modern conflict either. Boring. 'Boy likes girl, girl likes boy, boy decides he wants a better girl, boy dumps girl, girl turns into psycho stalker ex'. Yuck. 'Girl 1 likes boy. Girl 2 likes boy. Boy likes Girl 3, who really likes Boy 2 but thinks Boy is ok and oh, by the way, Boy 2 has his eyes on Girl 2, who just can't STAND him.' Boo. Hiss.

No, I want good old fashioned 'you touched my woman, you must die now' type conflict. This is all Kenshin's fault, really. Damned cute redhead with god-like sword skills and is just that much funner to play with if you make him an actual DEMON. And frankly, I still think being an incubus is right up Battousai's alley, cause then he could really play with Kaoru, who just needs to be ravished already.

Woo. Tangent. Which brings me to another of my current writing dilemmas. My one time lemon story is, well, stuck. Right at the start of the sex scene. Why? Because! Sex scenes are HARD!! There's this fine balance between the graphic description and the poetic metaphors. I know what makes ME all squishy, but I'm also a blatant pervert who gets off on tentacle sex. So writing this with the intent of actually showing it to one other person...*winks*, gotta find that balance.

Note to self, remind Moonlight deviant is not a BAD thing. Even the kinky stuff, well, most of it anyway. Given his preference for cosplaying as sadistic characters, and his admiration of Miho, I wouldn't put it past him.

Hmm. Stream of consciousness writing could get me in a lot of trouble. ^_^ Love you, Moonlight. You know I do. But dude, I can so totally see you tying somebody up and then torturing them in many and varied ways.

Where was I?

Oh yeah, Candy and Kenji. Now, I've already made Kenji a karate person. I figure black belt, maybe 2nd degree. I know in some disciplines you can make black belt in about three years of studying, provided you pass all your tests. So Kenji could hold his own in a fight. Candy, while having picked up some moves, you aren't best friends with Cherie for 6 years and NOT learn a few things, isn't the rough and tumble beat-em-up type. And that's the thing. All of my original female characters, with the exception of Candy (counts on fingers, snickers. 2!! I'm pathetic), have been the strong, independant, I-don't-need-a-man-but-I-won't-say-no-if-one-sticks-around types. The type of woman I wanted to be. Candy is more LIKE me, but with an extra dose of bubbles and less devotion to romantic ideals. Candy played the field and learned from her mistakes. Cherie was burned once and swore off guys until she was double-teamed by Rae and Candy. Nope, never stood a chance.

So! How to get some serious action-driven conflict into Candy & Kenji's story? I have no idea. Gotta get them back to the States first. Grawr!