Write a little bigger, darling

[renrenren3]

Not too long ago a certain lady asked me to write Inception fic. I told her it was probably a bad idea, but did it anyway. Yes, obviously it was a bad idea.
Two song meme fills and one tombola prompt from which you can easily deduce that:
1) I multiship;
2) I love Ariadne;
3) I can't write Ariadne.
Ergo, I'll probably stick to Arthur/Eames in the future and cry a little.

Arthur(/Eames) - Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch me for darkmagic_luvr
Ariadne(/Arthur) - Servant of Evil for mizunosakura
Grass green for the prompt... grass green (Inception, Ariadne)

All PG-rated and very much drabblish. The bulk of my writing effort today was the epic steampunk saga. I've written the opening scene, or at least part of the opening scene. It's 1,500 words where nothing at all happens. I'm all, man, you have to go out there and get shot! And my characters sit around making idle conversation and refuse to get the plot going. WTF.

I think I need a beta. Yesterday I ordered my sister to read my latest opus and find some damn mistakes to correct but she said it was all fine by her. NOT HELPFUL DUDE. I know I barf mistakes all over my stories. It's fine for short pieces but if I'm really going to write the epic steampunk saga I need to get off my butt and start doing things like proofreading and possibly find one of those anal betas that complain about every sentence they read. Why do I never come across those?

Comments

[gallifreycalls.livejournal.com]

I ♥ steampunk. If you need a beta after the 18th, I could take a look. If you think I'm picky enough, I'd be willing to help out, at least until maybe mid-January. I might be a bit hard to pin down after that for a while.

[renrenren3]

That'd be great, anyway I absolutely won't be able to finish before the 18th since it's shaping up to be around 10,000 words at the least and I'm a slow writer. :/
Word to the wise, the plot is all a great excuse to throw the two leads together and there will be at least one sex scene. But on the plus side, there will be zeppelins and waistcoats!

[gallifreycalls.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely comfortable reading sex scenes, but I'll be happy to critically read the rest. I am looking forward to epic duel atop a zeppelin. XD

[renrenren3]

I can edit that scene out before I send you the first draft. I'll shoot you a message sometime after the 18th (when hopefully I'll be done).

[gallifreycalls.livejournal.com]

If it's important to the plot, you can leave it in. I'll skim over it, and I can comment on it in the general context of the rest of the story.

[renrenren3]

I don't know how important it'll be, it's certainly not pivotal. Depends on where and when I decide to dump a certain piece of information.

To be 100% honest I could probably cut it out but I kind of want to submit the story to bb_shousetsu and they have a one-R-rated-scene-per-story rule. (Yeah, I have literary ambitions.)

[gallifreycalls.livejournal.com]

I can deal with an R rated scene. It's the graphic, NC-17 scenes that are a bit much.