I began reading Tooth and Claw, a book that's basically meant to be like Pride and Prejudice but everyone is a dragon
I was really itching to try to read some fiction again; I feel my well of writing has gotten a bit too incestuous, especially when it comes to fiction
so far I've enjoyed it. I'm reading it aloud to myself and it's pretty fun :3
But my choice here has to do with other writerly issues...
like why haven't I played mice tea after so long despite it being extremely my shit?
because it's too my shit, both in sense of the few surface similarities to Quoll, and its topic
it just feels too indulgent and some part of me cringes
but Tooth and Claw seems pretty far away from both Quoll and my normal reading of transformation stories while still with a concept that interests me
I can't quite explain it, but I feel like I've read too much tf fiction, mostly on the porn side and have begun to have a fatigue of the common tropes even as I hit them in Quoll
further, I don't feel up to writing an actual plot to Quoll beyond the transformation aspect even though I have one in mind
I don't know, I just feel there's a certain way that people tend to "develop" the themes of their stories that feel more like driven by ideas of what increasing tension/conflict in a story should be versus really building that off the initial feelings and motivations of the characters involved?
but I think that's just becoming too used to both writing and reading little standalone scenes that I most enjoy without elaboration
like it's kind of the same reason I'm not inclined to write fanfic any more? I feel like I would prefer to develop something original that builds off the vibe of something I like rather than an explicit fan work
but that's totally just my preference for what I'd like to write, and yeah it's definitely just elitism against fan works
