Open Thread: Oracle Hotline
Nov. 16th, 2025 10:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mithen posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
superhero_muses --If your current WiP were a conversation with your younger self, what would it be trying to say?
That's a really fascinating question! I'm not sure what my answer is, though, maybe because I'm just not deep enough into it. I'm not sure what the long-term themes of the work are going to be... there's a lot there about loneliness and partnership, but I don't know yet quite where it's going. The only message for sure is probably that you don't have to write anything explicit unless you feel inspired! I know I used to feel a lot of (mostly imagined) pressure to include sex scenes, but lately if I'm going to have the time to write I want to focus on the dialogue and the characters and their relationship (which can 100% be done in a sex scene, but it's not required!)
What would you say to yourself in the past through your fic?
That's a really fascinating question! I'm not sure what my answer is, though, maybe because I'm just not deep enough into it. I'm not sure what the long-term themes of the work are going to be... there's a lot there about loneliness and partnership, but I don't know yet quite where it's going. The only message for sure is probably that you don't have to write anything explicit unless you feel inspired! I know I used to feel a lot of (mostly imagined) pressure to include sex scenes, but lately if I'm going to have the time to write I want to focus on the dialogue and the characters and their relationship (which can 100% be done in a sex scene, but it's not required!)
What would you say to yourself in the past through your fic?