I too prefer gen the least out of all the genres. While your reasons make a lot of sense, MY reasons probably ARE that I actually just always want to write about sex, lol. Or subtextual slash sometimes :)
Though, really, that element of exploring sex and psychology and relationships in a serious and non-censored way is not something done in canon, or really in most genres of written work. So that's something that is specific to fanfic to some extent, to have a (woman-centric!) community that is open about the fact that writing hot sexytimes is a worthwhile goal in and of itself, and yet the erotic is not the REASON you're there, it's the show and characters. I love reading a good gen fic, but in terms of writing, it almost feels weird to me, for example, to write a Peter/Neal where I make a special effort to make the sexual tension stay hinted at rather than openly addressed. I have some Peter/Neal stories that are not primarily about sex or romance or even their relationship, but they are not gen because I write them as if they are in a relationship since that's how I see them. It would feel like 'hiding' their relationship to me if I wrote a gen fic focusing on Peter and Neal. *is bizarre.* I never feel that way as a reader, since I love different interpretations of the characters, but I just don't write a lot of gen.
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Date: 2011-07-09 09:56 pm (UTC)(define the 'right prompt' ;)
I too prefer gen the least out of all the genres. While your reasons make a lot of sense, MY reasons probably ARE that I actually just always want to write about sex, lol. Or subtextual slash sometimes :)
Though, really, that element of exploring sex and psychology and relationships in a serious and non-censored way is not something done in canon, or really in most genres of written work. So that's something that is specific to fanfic to some extent, to have a (woman-centric!) community that is open about the fact that writing hot sexytimes is a worthwhile goal in and of itself, and yet the erotic is not the REASON you're there, it's the show and characters. I love reading a good gen fic, but in terms of writing, it almost feels weird to me, for example, to write a Peter/Neal where I make a special effort to make the sexual tension stay hinted at rather than openly addressed. I have some Peter/Neal stories that are not primarily about sex or romance or even their relationship, but they are not gen because I write them as if they are in a relationship since that's how I see them. It would feel like 'hiding' their relationship to me if I wrote a gen fic focusing on Peter and Neal. *is bizarre.* I never feel that way as a reader, since I love different interpretations of the characters, but I just don't write a lot of gen.