Well, it worked out! You had something new to read. ;-)
Lol no, it's fine. Matt is definitely not like the owners in the ff.net stories you were thinking of. So I know I'm in the clear!
Wow, that whole paragraph makes me feel wonderful. I'm really flattered and happy that you think so highly of my stories! All of them. *grin* I do try to walk the line of not being overly sappy or overly cruel with my M/s pairings. I mean the day I write something like this:
Alex: I love you so much! Matt: No, I love you more!
...someone please slap me. Hard. XD My Spliced guys... they are men; they are angsty, but they aren't sappy. Even when they do have a sweet moment, they are gruff or embarrassed about it. *grin*
My essential thing is that I can't really write the girly male slaves, and I don't enjoy the really submissive slaves as much as the ones that I feel have something more going on. (I think you can see that from Min and Kurth.) Although I love writing Hollis/Nuit and think they're very sweet, I think they work best as supporting characters. I couldn't write a whole novel on them. But Brett slipped in there one day and (politely) demanded to be written. Him and Jenna have been so vocal lately, and I've found that I really like peeling back some of the layers on Brett and seeing what lies underneath. I feel like my challenge here was that I wanted to write a slave that was more that submissive type, but still also show that he is a man not a boy, with a man's foibles.
Yeah, I enjoy both het and slash as well (as you can tell from what I choose to write). I mean I figure, why limit yourself? As you said, a good story and good characters will always win over gender. (Bit of Spliced trivia for you - At one point I considered making the Kate character male, but I felt there would be way too much testosterone in the story then. I needed some balance. :P Plus, I just think it worked better for Min/Alex's development.)
Glad to hear there's another Jenna fan! ;-) Hmm, Jenna with more assertiveness. Well, there is more to learn about her, and really they are just getting started again. Plus, she is starting off here from a position of guilt, knowing that it's her fault they were separated. But I will say, that if you were comparing her to the Spliced slave owners, she's a lot more like Hollis than Matt. That's just how I saw her from the beginning. She treated Brett a lot better than anyone else ever had, and it almost killed him to lose that. And now here he is, pulled out of his shield of apathy, with all these emotions flooding back in. No wonder he's confused and irrational. But you are right in that he shouldn't blame her for other people's actions. We'll get to that. ;-)
On a similar note, when you're creating pairings, you need your characters to match up well. You need a particularly strong-willed, clever slave to change one very stubborn Kartan's world view, and an intelligent, resilient slave to deal with a capricious, fierce Queen. Brett and Jenna? Not quite as overwhelmingly complicated, but still fun and a good match. (At least for me, I hope for others as well.) A Queen that's practically a force of nature wouldn't find Brett nearly as interesting as someone like Kurth (or Min, for that matter). And Brett would be terrified of her; hell, Kurth fears her and he was a military officer that saw his share of war. XD
Okay I believe I've rambled long enough instead of writing! ;-) But thanks for all your lovely comments. I really do appreciate them! Thank you. :D
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Date: 2009-05-29 01:14 am (UTC)Lol no, it's fine. Matt is definitely not like the owners in the ff.net stories you were thinking of. So I know I'm in the clear!
Wow, that whole paragraph makes me feel wonderful. I'm really flattered and happy that you think so highly of my stories! All of them. *grin* I do try to walk the line of not being overly sappy or overly cruel with my M/s pairings. I mean the day I write something like this:
Alex: I love you so much!
Matt: No, I love you more!
...someone please slap me. Hard. XD My Spliced guys... they are men; they are angsty, but they aren't sappy. Even when they do have a sweet moment, they are gruff or embarrassed about it. *grin*
My essential thing is that I can't really write the girly male slaves, and I don't enjoy the really submissive slaves as much as the ones that I feel have something more going on. (I think you can see that from Min and Kurth.) Although I love writing Hollis/Nuit and think they're very sweet, I think they work best as supporting characters. I couldn't write a whole novel on them. But Brett slipped in there one day and (politely) demanded to be written. Him and Jenna have been so vocal lately, and I've found that I really like peeling back some of the layers on Brett and seeing what lies underneath. I feel like my challenge here was that I wanted to write a slave that was more that submissive type, but still also show that he is a man not a boy, with a man's foibles.
Yeah, I enjoy both het and slash as well (as you can tell from what I choose to write). I mean I figure, why limit yourself? As you said, a good story and good characters will always win over gender. (Bit of Spliced trivia for you - At one point I considered making the Kate character male, but I felt there would be way too much testosterone in the story then. I needed some balance. :P Plus, I just think it worked better for Min/Alex's development.)
Glad to hear there's another Jenna fan! ;-) Hmm, Jenna with more assertiveness. Well, there is more to learn about her, and really they are just getting started again. Plus, she is starting off here from a position of guilt, knowing that it's her fault they were separated. But I will say, that if you were comparing her to the Spliced slave owners, she's a lot more like Hollis than Matt. That's just how I saw her from the beginning. She treated Brett a lot better than anyone else ever had, and it almost killed him to lose that. And now here he is, pulled out of his shield of apathy, with all these emotions flooding back in. No wonder he's confused and irrational. But you are right in that he shouldn't blame her for other people's actions. We'll get to that. ;-)
On a similar note, when you're creating pairings, you need your characters to match up well. You need a particularly strong-willed, clever slave to change one very stubborn Kartan's world view, and an intelligent, resilient slave to deal with a capricious, fierce Queen. Brett and Jenna? Not quite as overwhelmingly complicated, but still fun and a good match. (At least for me, I hope for others as well.) A Queen that's practically a force of nature wouldn't find Brett nearly as interesting as someone like Kurth (or Min, for that matter). And Brett would be terrified of her; hell, Kurth fears her and he was a military officer that saw his share of war. XD
Okay I believe I've rambled long enough instead of writing! ;-) But thanks for all your lovely comments. I really do appreciate them! Thank you. :D