I think we established a few weeks back that I spent a lot of time on yahoo messenger. But I was typing the other day, and I realized it wasn’t just chatting about men, the weather, and kids.
No… it was like a real time critique group. Seriously, I’ll be yacking away with someone. Sending links for opinions on shopping, or just talking about life. I’m baking Christmas cookies for my coworkers tomorrow. Do you like this shirt in the red or black? I’m thinking of getting Timmy a puppy.
Then we slip into a quiet pause. More writing, checking emails, or surfing the online shops. But then I’ll look down and see my messenger flashing, and I’ll open the message to see something similar to this…
How does this sound…
She screamed, the pressure of his tongue against her clit making her go off like fireworks on the forth of July. Her nipples tightened, her body arched while she trembled under him.
“Donald!”
“You’re mine, Daisy. Mine, and don’t you ever forget it,” he muttered, climbing up her body and plunging into her and filling her to completeness.
To which I automatically write back, ‘looks good’ or offer suggestions. It doesn’t even phase me. It’s just life as I know it.
I mean, when I started writing back in the day, I never thought clits, cocks, and other eyebrow raising names for the male/female genitals would be a daily part of my life. But they are. And all I can think is, man, is this normal? That I have no reaction to them anymore?
If my non erotic romance writing friends were to be standing over my shoulder, I probably would have heard a thud when they hit the floor in a dead faint. That, or they’d just laugh so hard they’d pee themselves.
How about you? Is this common on your chatting messenger? Or does your chat, stay chat and leave the kinky book stuff behind?
December 5th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
LOL Shelli. My chats stay (mostly) PG rated because I’m usually at work, but they definitely have a writing undertone with a nutty twist. LOL Yesterday’s chat with my roomie went something like this:
Me: “Ooh, new characters! A highwayman in late 1700s england pulls over a carriage only to have the heroine jump out and insist she go with him to escape her kidnapper… OR I could throw a sci-fi twist to it to follow up my current novel and have the highwayman be the brother of my current heroine on a distant planet.”
Roomie: “Um, ok.” (At this point she questioning my sanity)
A few minutes later, Me: “Now it’s Frank Sinatra in my head…” (quotes a song from Guys and Dolls) “But seriously, what do you think of the idea?”
Roomie: “How about if…”
And so on. It’s silliness, but writing is such a part of my life that I don’t even think twice about mixing it in with the weather.
December 5th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
You do realize the image of Donald Duck going down on Daisy is forever branded in my head *g*
Ususally stuff like that goes in emails,though Raine and I do a lot of plotting on AOL IM
December 5th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
I wish my computer handled instant message better. Everytime I put yahoo messanger on it totally ruins my computer for some reason. I finally gave up and uninstalled it. Sounds like you all have some great critique and conversations!
December 5th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
… you mean most people don’t post snippets in IM while they’re writing?
Oops.
December 5th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroflmao!! OMG! I see Donald and Daisy in a whole new way! HEHE. I think instant messanger is a valued writer resource because it provides feed back in real time.
Bwhahahahaha! I’m still trying to get over Donald and Daisy doing the do.
December 5th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
Hee… actually, I have very much the same problems. I’m a weekend editor for a news website, so I’m pretty much on call all weekend in case anything big happens. So late one Saturday night, my boss checked in on IM, and I was deep in an edit of an MMF story… and we started talking about it… until I realized I was talking about MMF sex and positions with my boss. He blamed it on the wine he’d been drinking, but he’s never looked at me the same since…
December 5th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
Oh God. I’m Disney scarred. o.o
Ahem. I do post snippets from my WIP into a chat window now and then. It’s not usually erotic, though, because, well. I don’t normally write erotic stuff and when I *do*? I don’t share it for critique. I figure I either get that stuff right on my own or I don’t.
December 5th, 2006 at 9:59 pm
Lmao Amie!! That image is now permanently burned in my brain thanks.
Ya know since I started hanging out with Shelli and Crystal in IM there’s an unusually high number of ‘C’ words in that little window lol. You mean other writer’s don’t do this?? Wow. Lol.
December 6th, 2006 at 12:20 am
Too funny, Shelli. But I do that too.
December 6th, 2006 at 12:32 am
I didn’t even think of Donald & Daisy Duck. Duh!!!!!! Now I’m scarred, esp cos my kids have been watching Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas over and over…
Uh, Shelli, since I’m one of those you IM, yes, my chats are kinky. Gotta love it.
December 6th, 2006 at 12:54 am
Oooh, you thought I meant Donald and Daisy duck? You dirty people!
December 6th, 2006 at 1:54 am
LOL Shell I think it was a natural progression! Mia I don’t like Yahoo IM that’s why I use AOL’s…to be honest I try not to turn mine on much cuz then I get no work done
December 8th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
mia: Trillian is a good yahoo-alternative. http://www.ceruleanstudios.com It runs yahoo messenger, msn messenger, AOL, ICQ…it’s actually a little crazy now I think of it…
Shelli: I’m more concerned of your use of Donald and Daisy than the IM conversation itself
Crystal, Jen and I dragged my husband into a chat one night. During a long pause he said “um. Are they always like this?” Then Crys posted a snip of something she was working on (complete with thrusts and groans) and Jen and I ooohed, then degenerated into typical silliness over size vs. method, and he was laughing so hard the floor shook. Ten minutes later, it was silent again.
That time he didn’t complain
I’m bad with having messenger on though…it’s hard for me to write AND have a conversation, even a typed one…