It's Monday...
Jun. 8th, 2009 07:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritAnd thus time for...
THE WEEKLY WORD COUNT. /reverb
Feh.
Last week's word count: 47,502
This week's word count: 54,497
Word count for the week: 6,995
I...should not be disappointed by that. That is a fine and healthy average of nearly a thousand words a day. However, in the interests of full disclosure, I only managed 18 words yesterday (in edits), so, yeah, FAIL.
I think it may be because the whole Plot Hole Thing threw me for something of a loop yesterday, and I have a hard time writing new stuff until I fix (what I see as) a giant problem like that--and I'm still wrestling with it. Not to mention the fact that there comes a point where Ben is actually saying "yes" rather than being carried along by the force of Angeline's personality, and after that he starts *cough* initiating things himself. Yes, I can say "Stockholm Syndrome," how about you?
And then the Hubby and I had a convo last night about Consent Issues, and his attitude is that, in a situation like this, Angeline is raping Ben no matter what. Because she's in a position of complete and utter power over him and controls whether he lives, dies, or eats.
Myself, I think I've set it up a tiny bit grayer than that, because while that's certainly true, she doesn't use that power to try to get what she wants. She isn't going to hurt him or deprive him if he continues to say "no," and I think this is pretty plain, although I could probably make it plainer. Instead, she uses persuasion and seduction to eventually wear him down. The fact that she finally succeeds in a moment when he's utterly vulnerable probably does cross the line into rape, I can see that much, and it ends about as well as you'd expect.
Looking over what I've done, it seems that they really only have sex after moments of sheer stress. Interesting...
And yes, there's more sex in this thing than in everything else I've ever written--combined. I'm not sure what that says about me.
THE WEEKLY WORD COUNT. /reverb
Feh.
Last week's word count: 47,502
This week's word count: 54,497
Word count for the week: 6,995
I...should not be disappointed by that. That is a fine and healthy average of nearly a thousand words a day. However, in the interests of full disclosure, I only managed 18 words yesterday (in edits), so, yeah, FAIL.
I think it may be because the whole Plot Hole Thing threw me for something of a loop yesterday, and I have a hard time writing new stuff until I fix (what I see as) a giant problem like that--and I'm still wrestling with it. Not to mention the fact that there comes a point where Ben is actually saying "yes" rather than being carried along by the force of Angeline's personality, and after that he starts *cough* initiating things himself. Yes, I can say "Stockholm Syndrome," how about you?
And then the Hubby and I had a convo last night about Consent Issues, and his attitude is that, in a situation like this, Angeline is raping Ben no matter what. Because she's in a position of complete and utter power over him and controls whether he lives, dies, or eats.
Myself, I think I've set it up a tiny bit grayer than that, because while that's certainly true, she doesn't use that power to try to get what she wants. She isn't going to hurt him or deprive him if he continues to say "no," and I think this is pretty plain, although I could probably make it plainer. Instead, she uses persuasion and seduction to eventually wear him down. The fact that she finally succeeds in a moment when he's utterly vulnerable probably does cross the line into rape, I can see that much, and it ends about as well as you'd expect.
Looking over what I've done, it seems that they really only have sex after moments of sheer stress. Interesting...
And yes, there's more sex in this thing than in everything else I've ever written--combined. I'm not sure what that says about me.
