Okay so whited out portion for the squeamish
Saturday was a play party. People have finally gotten comfortable with having a blood fetishist around and want to play with me more. I take extreme cautions: gloves, emergency room grade disinfectants, sharp containers, on and on... Saturday while doing a blood cupping scene on a lovely young woman the owner of the dungeon comes up to me and wraps her arms around my waist and whispers in my hair in a very calm voice "Just to let you know. There are cops outside. I don't know if they are coming in. (the other owner's name) is talking to them now." M was assisting me in the scene. I leaned across the table and told her "We are shutting down now. Police outside." Then I leaned down to the young woman and said nicely, "I'm sorry but we are going to have to end your scene short. There are police outside and naked girl covered in blood equals a really bad night for Caleb." They didn't come in. The other owner was honest about what the establishment was, honest about how it was legal and offered to show the paperwork that the lawyers had prepared for just this occasion and they went on their happy little way.... My gro0ve was disrupted after that.
Now for something nerdy that leads to a bit of a rant. So we are rewatching the Matrix trilogy. I had a realization last night. Never once in the movies do they mention what city they are in or even that it is Earth. They make the references of the matrix, the machine world, the real world. Which then got my brain churning. I conjecture that the world they are on is a human colony on an alien planet that fell apart.
Now for the rant. I read literary fiction and genre fiction. I've found that my writing style no matter what I try to write leans more towards lit fic. Every time I've had someone from AW give me a read over on my longer work I always get called out on the fact that I never name the city my stories are in... This was always a frustration of mine and it wasn't until having this nerdy rambling in my head that I realized why I was getting frustrated and why I always get called out on that by the people from here.
It falls back on that in lit fic it's common to have whole novels and never know where the hell the story is happening. I love it. LOVE IT LOTS. BUT the majority of you beautiful people here are genre writers. In the genre world this is a HUGE no no.
Why is this? Why is the vague notion of a place is acceptable in one part of the writing world but not in the other? It confuses me. Especially with the realization that a scifi triology that never once gave a name to anything was extremely successful. So it just leaves me with a huge WHY.....
Anyway that's where my brain has been today.
Saturday was a play party. People have finally gotten comfortable with having a blood fetishist around and want to play with me more. I take extreme cautions: gloves, emergency room grade disinfectants, sharp containers, on and on... Saturday while doing a blood cupping scene on a lovely young woman the owner of the dungeon comes up to me and wraps her arms around my waist and whispers in my hair in a very calm voice "Just to let you know. There are cops outside. I don't know if they are coming in. (the other owner's name) is talking to them now." M was assisting me in the scene. I leaned across the table and told her "We are shutting down now. Police outside." Then I leaned down to the young woman and said nicely, "I'm sorry but we are going to have to end your scene short. There are police outside and naked girl covered in blood equals a really bad night for Caleb." They didn't come in. The other owner was honest about what the establishment was, honest about how it was legal and offered to show the paperwork that the lawyers had prepared for just this occasion and they went on their happy little way.... My gro0ve was disrupted after that.
Now for something nerdy that leads to a bit of a rant. So we are rewatching the Matrix trilogy. I had a realization last night. Never once in the movies do they mention what city they are in or even that it is Earth. They make the references of the matrix, the machine world, the real world. Which then got my brain churning. I conjecture that the world they are on is a human colony on an alien planet that fell apart.
Now for the rant. I read literary fiction and genre fiction. I've found that my writing style no matter what I try to write leans more towards lit fic. Every time I've had someone from AW give me a read over on my longer work I always get called out on the fact that I never name the city my stories are in... This was always a frustration of mine and it wasn't until having this nerdy rambling in my head that I realized why I was getting frustrated and why I always get called out on that by the people from here.
It falls back on that in lit fic it's common to have whole novels and never know where the hell the story is happening. I love it. LOVE IT LOTS. BUT the majority of you beautiful people here are genre writers. In the genre world this is a HUGE no no.
Why is this? Why is the vague notion of a place is acceptable in one part of the writing world but not in the other? It confuses me. Especially with the realization that a scifi triology that never once gave a name to anything was extremely successful. So it just leaves me with a huge WHY.....
Anyway that's where my brain has been today.
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