'Ello. I'm Jay, and I'm hoping to use this as an opportunity to give myself the kick up the arse I need with regard to writing some original fiction that I can submit!
I used to write a lot of West Wing fanfiction, but as my interests started to become more and more avant-garde I've begun to get more interested (finally, considering that I want to write professionally!) in my original stuff and ideas that started out as fannish ones but diverged from canon enough that they no longer have anything to do with a West Wing universe. I wrote for kink_bingo last time around and noticed that I got a lot of good ideas but not ones that would really appeal over much to the fic community. Hence this seemed like a good plan. :)
I write literary fiction, I suppose. Touch of a new weird, apocalyptic, slipstream-esque feeling about it. Current main interests are dystopic cities, masculinity and transmasculine experience, male or male-identified people's desire for each other (ex-slasher; habit is hard to break), monstrosity and becoming the monster and loving the monster, locked room stories (not mysteries, but just stories that take place or partially take place in a locked space or single space that doesn't change during the course of the narrative -- watching a lot of Silent Hill 4 playthrough vidoes on YouTube!) and ... that kind of thing. *g* I'm better at throwing out themes than I am at giving slick synopses, I guess!
I'm working on two novels (one of which is a gay love story that takes place in a dystopic city -- and possibly also in a locked room! -- and may be based around Wallace Steven's poem '13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird', if I can figure out what I want to do with it; the second novel is about a trans guy in crisis and the people who love him and how he relates to his masculinity and how his life becomes all the stranger when a man who used to be in love with his father comes into it) in between other commitments, and I really want to get a novella finished by the end of the year. That's my goal, anyway. Hoping this will help with that a little. :)
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I used to write a lot of West Wing fanfiction, but as my interests started to become more and more avant-garde I've begun to get more interested (finally, considering that I want to write professionally!) in my original stuff and ideas that started out as fannish ones but diverged from canon enough that they no longer have anything to do with a West Wing universe. I wrote for
I write literary fiction, I suppose. Touch of a new weird, apocalyptic, slipstream-esque feeling about it. Current main interests are dystopic cities, masculinity and transmasculine experience, male or male-identified people's desire for each other (ex-slasher; habit is hard to break), monstrosity and becoming the monster and loving the monster, locked room stories (not mysteries, but just stories that take place or partially take place in a locked space or single space that doesn't change during the course of the narrative -- watching a lot of Silent Hill 4 playthrough vidoes on YouTube!) and ... that kind of thing. *g* I'm better at throwing out themes than I am at giving slick synopses, I guess!
I'm working on two novels (one of which is a gay love story that takes place in a dystopic city -- and possibly also in a locked room! -- and may be based around Wallace Steven's poem '13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird', if I can figure out what I want to do with it; the second novel is about a trans guy in crisis and the people who love him and how he relates to his masculinity and how his life becomes all the stranger when a man who used to be in love with his father comes into it) in between other commitments, and I really want to get a novella finished by the end of the year. That's my goal, anyway. Hoping this will help with that a little. :)