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12 Jun 2002 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneparents want to have movie marathon tonight and i said yes but am actually too tired. i want to go to bed right now, only i still have to have dinner. maybe i'll give writing a try for a little while, but i'd definitely fall asleep in the movie.
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shadowleopard said that qui/obi was the best pairing ever, which got me thinking about the whole one true pairing concept. i've had several, i'd think, only then if you've had more than one that kind of defeats it all. but i remember discussing it with caraloup earlier, and that she was writing just one pairing for years and years, and i honestly can't comprehend that. as much as i like timbertrick, for instance, i don't want to write two of it in a row. kirk/spock and qui/obi are both richer in possibilities in all kinds of ways (any sf pairing would be, but we're speaking only of the ones i particularly like, of course), but i think my affection for timbertrick may be greater. still, i get tired of it, and no matter how much i like lotrips to read i find i don't want to write more than one story in any one pairing. domlijah has lost its attraction for me, and so has dom/billy. i'll still read viggorli, but i can't even conceive of writing it again.
the fact is, i don't want to take a little corner of the possible fictional universes i could create and explore it thoroughly. i don't want to look at one pairing from every possible angle, put them in a lot of different situations--i just don't. i don't mind reading what other people have done on those lines, and cara never had any trouble holding my attention with her excellent han/luke even though the pairing seemed ludicrous to me when i first thought of it.
i wonder if it indicates something fundamental about writers? i don't dislike exploring, but i like to explore more widely. every time i do something, i want to strike out in a new direction, lately. i don't want to write the same point of view twice in a row or the same gimmick (a la tense shifts and pov shifts and timeline shifts in burn and tennessee) twice in a row or the same theme twice in a row. the themes may even be the most closely related things, if you look at what i write in chronological order. i'm not even certain if there's a connection there.
the other day
shadowleopard said that qui/obi was the best pairing ever, which got me thinking about the whole one true pairing concept. i've had several, i'd think, only then if you've had more than one that kind of defeats it all. but i remember discussing it with caraloup earlier, and that she was writing just one pairing for years and years, and i honestly can't comprehend that. as much as i like timbertrick, for instance, i don't want to write two of it in a row. kirk/spock and qui/obi are both richer in possibilities in all kinds of ways (any sf pairing would be, but we're speaking only of the ones i particularly like, of course), but i think my affection for timbertrick may be greater. still, i get tired of it, and no matter how much i like lotrips to read i find i don't want to write more than one story in any one pairing. domlijah has lost its attraction for me, and so has dom/billy. i'll still read viggorli, but i can't even conceive of writing it again. the fact is, i don't want to take a little corner of the possible fictional universes i could create and explore it thoroughly. i don't want to look at one pairing from every possible angle, put them in a lot of different situations--i just don't. i don't mind reading what other people have done on those lines, and cara never had any trouble holding my attention with her excellent han/luke even though the pairing seemed ludicrous to me when i first thought of it.
i wonder if it indicates something fundamental about writers? i don't dislike exploring, but i like to explore more widely. every time i do something, i want to strike out in a new direction, lately. i don't want to write the same point of view twice in a row or the same gimmick (a la tense shifts and pov shifts and timeline shifts in burn and tennessee) twice in a row or the same theme twice in a row. the themes may even be the most closely related things, if you look at what i write in chronological order. i'm not even certain if there's a connection there.
