I try to get my fanfic priorities in order ...

[barbayat]

.. so I am thinking about focusing on just three stories.

One will be the Boondock Saints, because this story is actually very dear to me, it just that the crash kind of discouraged me to re-start on it. But thanks to Sith Bitch, I found new energy and I already re-wrote a great deal from my notes.

Then I really always need a vampire story to work on. And this is where I am really, really undecided! I ought to continue with Dark Matters, but I lost the last chapters in the crash and getting back into Dracula at this point won’t easy and frankly it is more like I got a few interested reader’s but not really the mood to go back into it.

edit: forgot to say, I got the plot of all the fics mentioned outlined in my head and on notes, except for Dark matters, where at some point chapters away, I won`t really now what exactly happens as I must see how the characters have developed then ...

Then there is another story I just recovered today from the aff . net and that I adore, because it is not really as complicated. While Dark Matters is about Dracula in the Future in a city full of original characters where he has to learn and to adapt himself, this story Night`s Tempation is more intimate and focused around an ancient vampire (who barely looks older than 20) and a young girl.

I love to go back into that and I feel like I finally found some people who despite not knowing the fandom like this kind of story well enough to give me useful and honest feedback and not the OMG you are pairing your own female character with a canon? Not to mention that the fandom is rather focused on the main characters and not on one episode appearances …

Actually I doubt that one needs to know those characters – they have a slightly changing personality anyway. I already finished three chapters and have fourth in the progress as well as an intermission and a prologue. I am not so sure about them, as I write normally from her point of view and in an omniscient while in the other two.

Although I must say that the prologue is rather nasty, as a young witch is sacrificed in it and I don’t know if that is okay with this site or whether that counts as child abuse (not that there is anything sexual about the sacrifice).

Then again it is about horror and also there will be Erotica in it, the tension between the vampire and the girl are what thrills me most about this story.

The last one is one where I already got a beta- but I am not sure if should post it here, as the fandom are Charlie`s Angels movies, to be more precise the Dylan / Thin Man pairing. To enjoy that story I think one needs to be into them or at least know who they are and what common history they have.

[.::Sith::Bitch::.]

I'm kind of confused but I like them! *laughs*

But uhhhh...about the Vampire one. What did you mean by "I love to go back into that and I feel like I finally found some people who despite not knowing the fandom like this kind of story well enough to give me useful and honest feedback and not the OMG you are pairing your own female character with a canon? Not to mention that the fandom is rather focused on the main characters and not on one episode appearances …".

Are you saying that we don't like or are familiar to vampires? *laughs* All three of us, I can assure you have read just about every category of vampire fic out there! *laughs* We're vamp freaks but just don't show it. We don't want people thinking we're any weirder than what we are now *nods slowly* Not that we are...*points to Tempted Saint...whistles* heh heh heh!!

[barbayat]

I meant with Fandom where the characters are from namely Poltergeist: The Legacy

But I might be wrong about that ... but f course a certain type of story can have a fandom, too. Did not thought it could be misunderstood like that.

As I was rather sure that you three here know your way with vampires rather well

[Tempted Saint]

Although I must say that the prologue is rather nasty, as a young witch is sacrificed in it and I don’t know if that is okay with this site or whether that counts as child abuse (not that there is anything sexual about the sacrifice).

The child abuse issue is not limited to sexual abuse. Physical abuse is just a serious an issue when it comes to writing. It is however a little easier to write. Both are part of many stories and must be explained to properly develop mood and characters

So what is tasteful and what’s not? It's all in the way you write it.

Let me clarify the issue of writing child abuse. *takes a deep breath*

We do not allow any gratuitus sexual or physical abuse of minors on the site. It is acceptable however, to put it in your story. If one of your characters is sexually or physically abused, then write it. What we can't have is, the scene written as erotica. Because then you have crossed the line from explanation, to perversion. As a writer the mood of the scene is all up to you. So what you stress and place creative emphasis on, the reader is more likely to feel.

As far as what to write. I would choose the story that you have the most inspiration to write. *nods* I am currently struggling with a story and lack of inspiration really stinks. Yet I have a wealth of others that I am just chomping at the bit to write.

Bottom line write what feels good to write. If you are wanting to challenge yourself and have the time, write what you have been putting off.