helpful hints for writing romance and slash no. 1,600,042

[cimorene]

if, while you're writing slashfic, some poignantly pertinent lyrics come to your mind as inspiration but they don't really fit the tone of canon--for example, cohen/wainwright/whassis' "halleljuh" during the fast and the furious--keep it to yourself.

don't quote them.*

*the same applies to poetry. ESPECIALLY t.s. eliot.

Comments

[cimness.livejournal.com]

sadly, one of the best pieces pieces of slash in kirk/spock is saved from being really satisfying, the sort of thing you can't pick nits from, ONLY by the fact that EVERY section is headed with t.s. eliot. i mean, what a way to go! she loses like fifty points just from THAT, and meanwhile it's better written (aside from i mean) than the majority of its peers, besides being rather, well, fresh. a source of constant distress, mate.

see for yourself:
http://www.waxjism.org/cimorene/trek/anothercountrybeckons.txt