Self-analytical nonsense.

I've been analysing my own writing, like a total git, and what I've mostly been contemplating... oh look, speed-walkers. You can't see them. They're outside. Yes. Things I refuse to write about in a straightforward fashion. That's what I'm talking about. You know quite probably that I don't write anything very, you know, massively sexual. Because it makes me laugh and I think it's anti-erotic, primarily. But there are a couple of much less explicable things that I won't write with any real clarity... and they'd be including kissing and crying. I've sort of been aware that, over the past few months, I'd avoided the use of those verbs or synonyms thereof in descriptions of the events they traditionally describe, but it occured to me in reference to something I wrote a while ago that I'm not even obliquely describing the events themselves anymore. I'd instead be describing secondary events that seemed very likely to have come about as a result of those actions (I don't know... weird post-kissing tastes; asthmatics coughing after kissing smokers, that sort of thing), or I'd be describing it on a wholly metaphorical level: I'd bang on about something that may or may not be standing in for the event in question. There's a chap on the telly who looks a great deal like Harold Ramis. I still love Egon Spengler. But yes. And I was wondering why. I don't actually know why. I had to do it in the Jeeves and Wooster fic I wrote over a year ago because Bertie had to reinvent the kiss, and I'm thinking maybe I just became fond of the method after that. I expect I just like obliqueness; or I'm scared of being blatant and obvious (not that I've ever read 'He kissed him' and thought 'Oh, that's just too straightforward') and melodramatic (with crying, I think that is). I don't know. Or self-indulgent. I like having a get-out clause and being able to say that you don't know for sure that's what I meant. And - this is why I'm not massively bothered about correcting it - it means people can assume I meant kissing when I meant nothing of the sort, and then they get to read more kissing. I'm not into authorial authority.

Yes. That's about that.

Self-analytical nonsense.

I've been analysing my own writing, like a total git, and what I've mostly been contemplating... oh look, speed-walkers. You can't see them. They're outside. Yes. Things I refuse to write about in a straightforward fashion. That's what I'm talking about. You know quite probably that I don't write anything very, you know, massively sexual. Because it makes me laugh and I think it's anti-erotic, primarily. But there are a couple of much less explicable things that I won't write with any real clarity... and they'd be including kissing and crying. I've sort of been aware that, over the past few months, I'd avoided the use of those verbs or synonyms thereof in descriptions of the events they traditionally describe, but it occured to me in reference to something I wrote a while ago that I'm not even obliquely describing the events themselves anymore. I'd instead be describing secondary events that seemed very likely to have come about as a result of those actions (I don't know... weird post-kissing tastes; asthmatics coughing after kissing smokers, that sort of thing), or I'd be describing it on a wholly metaphorical level: I'd bang on about something that may or may not be standing in for the event in question. There's a chap on the telly who looks a great deal like Harold Ramis. I still love Egon Spengler. But yes. And I was wondering why. I don't actually know why. I had to do it in the Jeeves and Wooster fic I wrote over a year ago because Bertie had to reinvent the kiss, and I'm thinking maybe I just became fond of the method after that. I expect I just like obliqueness; or I'm scared of being blatant and obvious (not that I've ever read 'He kissed him' and thought 'Oh, that's just too straightforward') and melodramatic (with crying, I think that is). I don't know. Or self-indulgent. I like having a get-out clause and being able to say that you don't know for sure that's what I meant. And - this is why I'm not massively bothered about correcting it - it means people can assume I meant kissing when I meant nothing of the sort, and then they get to read more kissing. I'm not into authorial authority.

Yes. That's about that.