resonant: Ray Kowalski (Due South) (Default)
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Everything's all out of order, which I did not intend, but [personal profile] blnchflr asked: what has changed (most) about your writing?

I thought about going back and reading some of my old Sentinel stuff to answer this question, but I was afraid I wouldn't like it when I read it, so I didn't.

I do remember that when I started out, I wrote romance in a more emotionally explicit way -- I wanted feelings expressed directly in words, preferably at length, whereas now I enjoy the sense that profound things are happening while guys say, "Dude, uh, yeah."

My sex scenes have gotten shorter; I don't know if that's an improvement or not. But after a while I begin to feel that the words I'm writing are words that I've written before!

I still find it difficult to create plot --- in the sense of "action that's meaningful in terms of significant story conflicts," but also just in the sense of "things that happen that aren't talking or sex." But it's a lot easier than it used to be, and so my stories are going through fewer backs-and-forths with betas saying, "No, but, see, when it's this easy it's not really a story, is it."
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