Monday Madness: Original Fic

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Hi everyone! *waves* It's Monday, and one of our new features this year is something I have decided to call Monday Madness! I haven't even discussed the name with our fearless leader, kaige68, but I'm sure she'll let me run with the title. What's happening with this is that four alternate Mondays will be devoted to Original Fic, Pimps, Recs or Coming Attractions. All will be explained as each of those four subjects come up. Kaige is taking Pimps and Coming Attractions, and I'm doing Original Fic and Recs. I'm starting off with Original Fic, so if that's your thing, or you're the least bit curious, jump under the cut

Original Fic Monday is all about stuff you've written, stuff you'd like to write, hints, discussions, sharing bits and pieces of your own work NOT based on any fandom; a fandom of your own, if you like!

So, for week number one, let's get to know some of our original writers out there, and maybe you'd like to share a piece you've written, or else tell us about something you'd like to write. No matter if you've never done it before; if you think you'd like to give it a go, this is a friendly place to get some help if you want it, some feedback on whether your idea or your piece is something of interest, or even just some encouragement on what you're doing!

<b>Name:</b> <b>Genre you like to write/would like to write:</b> <b>Link something original that you wrote (or add excerpt/short piece here), with a short description:</b> <b>Anything else you'd like to tell us about your original writing:</b>

I'll get us started:

Name: H
Genre you like to write/would like to write: I am a slasher through and through, so there always has to be some element of M/M in it, and I most easily write charaterisation-type things. I like anything fantasy/futuristic or post-apocalyptic, but I also love to write coming-of-age stories and stories of fluid sexuality (men suddenly finding themselves attracted to men when they haven't been previously, or bisexual men wanting more from casual relationships type of thing). I like to include erotica, but I'm happy enough without it too, and I also like to try to inject a bit of humour if I can. (oops, that's long, sorry! ;-)
Link something original that you wrote (or add excerpt/short piece here), with a short description: I stepped a little out of my normal comfort zone for this M/M/F erotic piece, as there's a woman involved (Ha!) when I don't normally put women into the erotic part of any stories I make, but I was reasonably pleased with this one: Broken Images, and am contemplating a sequel, which would definitely be more M/M focused! The story is a threesome that evolves from a young couple who sit for some preliminary photographs for an artist who is going to paint them. The boyfriend is a little uncomfortable... at first!
Anything else you'd like to tell us about your original writing: I have always written my own M/M fiction in my head, since I was in my teens and WAY before I found fanfic, way before the internet, and yes, way before some of you were probably born... and now I have outed myself as a dirty old lady, you may want to run away! But since I got involved with fanfic, I've learned such a lot, and I even managed to FINISH a 185K story that I started a few years back, which is no small feat for a girl who always abandoned everything because 'who the hell would care?' and because I tended to lose interest and just start another one... And yes, I still do this at times, so I'm trying to focus a little more and actually complete a few more of the other SIX ongoing WIPs I have at the moment. ;-)

Now, come on, everyone, how about you?

Comments

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Wow, I had no idea you'd been published! That's so awesome - you may have some insight to help some of the rest of us who'd like to do that. Congrats on getting so far!

I like the sound of your stories - I did look you up and found your website! I read the synopsis of both books too; they sound really interesting.

I don't know anything about SEAL TEAM Six, so I had no idea there were any gay military romance stories, but I'm sure I would enjoy reading them. Do you do a lot of research for each book, or is it because you have an interest or knowledge in the military already?

I hope you'll enjoy and contribute more to this fortnightly post - I think it'll be great for original fic writers to encourage and support each other, and there's bound to be a lot of things we can cover.

Sorry for the delay in the reply - busy times, as ever!

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I don't say a lot- I'm sorry. I'm a bit shy in most forums and even worse with social media. Epic fail there actually... LOL. I am certainly glad to contribute to this though and will gladly help anyone who is looking at trying to publish in the epublishing world.

SEAL Team Six was the team that got Bin Landin. They also rescued that ship's captain that the pirates took a few years ago. (It's a movie now with Tom Hanks). Anyway, they sort of made military romances suddenly very in demand by publishers. And then in my corner, M/M, military romances really took off.

I got interested many years ago in Vietnam and the history there. I have a ton of research and worked with a military advisor until he passed away a few years ago. I'm a huge fan of Tour of Duty and it just recently released in DVDs in the UK- and I was asked to do the character work ups that's in the extras.

I do research for each book. To me that's part of the fun. I'm currently working on a WWII one called Melody Blue about a B17 bomber, her crew and captain and it's set in southern England.

And I'll shut up now. LOL. If I can help though, please let me know.

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That's okay - I understand your reticence, but I hope you will find this little comm a friendly place to discuss things ;-) Thank you for that - it'd be great if you could help where you can about epublishing etc.

Ah, of course - not being American, I really didn't pay attention to which SEAL team did what, but of course I have heard of both of those incidents. And yay for it helping to make M/M military romances take off!

That's so great that you're interested in history and are happy to do research! I'm so lazy in research terms and will often only do basic internet checking unless I find something that grabs my attention (of course!), or else I skim over a lot of detail (that I probably should check out further!) when I write. I know it's a bit bad!

I did read about your new book too, on your website, and as someone who LOVED Memphis Belle, especially the relationships between the flyers that I would have loved to have seen more of, that really intrigues me a lot. I'd love to read it when you're done. ;-)

Please, please, don't shut up! That would help tons, and discussions like this, plus anything else you have to offer, would be great! I suspect these Orig Fic posts are always going to only be a bare few of us, so anything you can contribute (and any conversations like this!) will be wonderful, so I hope you'll keep talking! ;-)