on gay pants
Jun. 26th, 2003 07:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hafital(sorry for the hiccup...)
A while back, last semester I believe, I was pestering![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
killabeez on AIM, complaining to her about how I needed to come up with some sort of suitable answer to the question "Why do you write what you write?" Because people, namely writing teachers and fellow students who have read my original fic, kept asking me and I had absolutely no answer. I mean, I know why I write. more or less. Not sure I can verbalize it coherently, but I know. However, when talking to a professor who's looking at me with great interest and with this manner of "you and your fiction do not match" I just sort of stammer a vague queerish rambling answer that's not really accurate. And sometimes they ask me "what gave you the impetus (or some such thing) for this story?" and I really don't have an answer for that one. I mean, how do you explain slash without explaining slash? The essence of slash? (ew!) Which is of course different for ever writer of slash. It's not the writing about a tv show that I need to explain, it's the why. Because that's what it is they're trying to figure out and what I tend to, even unconsciously, write. My original fic isn't exactly like my fan fic, but that spark is essentially the same.
And then I thought, next time someone asks me why I write what I write I should just answer with "Gay pants." It's about the most accurate. *g* But seriously, I need to find some translatable equivalent.
A while back, last semester I believe, I was pestering
killabeez on AIM, complaining to her about how I needed to come up with some sort of suitable answer to the question "Why do you write what you write?" Because people, namely writing teachers and fellow students who have read my original fic, kept asking me and I had absolutely no answer. I mean, I know why I write. more or less. Not sure I can verbalize it coherently, but I know. However, when talking to a professor who's looking at me with great interest and with this manner of "you and your fiction do not match" I just sort of stammer a vague queerish rambling answer that's not really accurate. And sometimes they ask me "what gave you the impetus (or some such thing) for this story?" and I really don't have an answer for that one. I mean, how do you explain slash without explaining slash? The essence of slash? (ew!) Which is of course different for ever writer of slash. It's not the writing about a tv show that I need to explain, it's the why. Because that's what it is they're trying to figure out and what I tend to, even unconsciously, write. My original fic isn't exactly like my fan fic, but that spark is essentially the same. And then I thought, next time someone asks me why I write what I write I should just answer with "Gay pants." It's about the most accurate. *g* But seriously, I need to find some translatable equivalent.
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Date: 2003-06-26 05:30 pm (UTC)pantalon gai?
homosexuelle Hosen?
calças gay?
Or wasn't that what you meant by a translatable (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr) equivalent? *g*
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Date: 2003-06-27 07:49 am (UTC)'homosexuelle Hosen's' my favorite. Although 'pantalones alegres' has a certain charm. Happy Pants!! hee.
Gay Pants!
Date: 2003-06-26 06:10 pm (UTC);)
Re: Gay Pants!
Date: 2003-06-26 06:17 pm (UTC)Well, that will hardly help. My teachers ask me a question and I'll show them my Gay Pants Icon.... Okay, maybe it would help. LOL.
erm...
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Date: 2003-06-26 07:38 pm (UTC)The answer to why I've written half my poetry is "I like red boots", I kid you not.
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Date: 2003-06-27 09:20 am (UTC)Almost any writer I've ever seen try and answer the "why do you write what you write" question seem to get rather impatient and verklempt. Partly, of course, because it's so often asked, but I really think it's an unanswerable question. Simply put, you write what you write (presumably) because it occurs to you. Something makes you think, inspires you, makes you want to work it out. With media-based fiction, for me, at least, it's about relationships, and wanting to explore the possibilities of a particular relationship, and because they talk in my head when I'm trying to go to sleep.
But mostly? It's because it's fun, and creative, and satisfying.