Hah! Done!

I finally finished editing chapter 6 of "Secrets," my CoS-according-to-Ginny novel type thing, and have sent it off to beta. I really should have had that done two weeks ago, but I got distracted by my essays and I refuse to let anyone see a new chapter until I've attacked it with the Editing Pen of Death. I'm kind of a paranoid perfectionist about my writing.

Anyway, with any luck I can get it sent off to FictionAlley in about a week. Then I want to finish and post at least one of the five or so shorter pieces I'm currently working on -- probably "Parseltongue" or "Sir Ron and the Green Knight" -- before really settling down and starting chapter 7. I have a few snippets of it written, and the thing as a whole is planned out, but the short pieces have been diverting my creative juices.

[Fic] "Parseltongue" -- Harry Potter

In a fit of productivity, I cleaned up and posted Parseltongue at FictionAlleyPark today. It's in the Cookie Jar, since it's only about 800 words and I couldn't figure out what House to put it in anyway. You can also find it here on ff.net, or here on AO3, or you could read it here on my journal. :-)

I'm a bit bemused by the fic since it's the first time I've written anything that qualifies as erotica. It's funny, since I've written sex scenes in original fiction before, but always very short and rather clinically glossed over, unless they were rape scenes. I wrote a rape story when I was eleven or twelve, based on a really terrifying dream I couldn't stop thinking about otherwise. It was pretty good for a twelve year old, I dare say, considering it had thoughts about Renaissance art and the madonna-whore complex, but I still don't like thinking about it. (ETA: It's called Mona's Blood.)

Why is it, I wonder, that I was able to write a fairly detailed story like that so many years ago, but I only now got around to writing something gentler and consensual? Ah well.

Anyhow, "Parseltongue" is all about the boundary between the reader and the word on the page, and between squick and erotica. Read it and tell me what you think. Contains live snakes used as sex aids.

( Parseltongue )

No, I don't know who the man and the woman are. I don't think it particularly matters either -- that's not the point of the fic!