Indecisive muses...

Well, this is strange.

I actually couldn’t come up with a way to make my muses get to work on my fic so that I could have a third chapter done before the first (that is, unless they’re able to put ten pages into my head and then onto paper in less than forty-eight hours, which I highly doubt). Instead, they decided to do something else entirely.

I’m re-reading a scene in the second chapter, and I can’t figure out what I should do with a certain scene.

Here is the scene in question:

( Spectre scene, version 1 )

See, my muses want to make that more graphic. I like the way it is now, but they want to make it bloodier and more…well, they want it to be more suggestive. I realize I kind of skimmed over the details in here—I did that on purpose actually—but now they want it to be more blatant "spectre-molestation" than it was before. More abuse, more pain, more spectre-suggestiveness. In short, the muses want me to redo this scene in more of a hardcore fashion. I guess I’ll work on it again, and then decide which scene to use later. Of course, if I do go with the heavy-explicit version, it will likely be the heaviest I’ve ever written. But then there’s the fact that the spectre hasn’t made his last appearance. Maybe I should save the more explicit descriptions for the second appearance…but the muses want me to consider making the first explicit and then the other one even more so…

*falls over* I don’t know how I’m going to do this anymore. I should just concentrate on getting the third chapter done so that I can start posting this thing. *gets up* But the muses won’t leave me alone until I have a second version of that scene…

*SPLAM!*

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Funny story. When I got the other version of the spectre scene done, I found that I was a ‘beta whore.’ That means that I needed input about things right away, and they had to be done right away. Of course, I’m at home where yaoi isn’t looked highly on. So I had to do something clever. I asked my dad to read the two versions of my chapter, and tell me what he thought of them and which one would be the better to submit.

Of course, that meant that I had to boot my computer back up no less than five minutes after shutting it down, seeing as moving from Windows ME to Windows 95 is a little iffy. But that just had to be done, so I boot up my machine and get ready for a whole lot of trouble, because

—     I’m getting a new beta on the fic,

—     The fic in question is dark, creepy, and Stephen King-esque in that scene,

—     The fic in question is a yaoi fic,

—     Yaoi means potential sexual encounter with two guys, and

—     My father is a raging homophobe.

Now THAT’S a fun combination. But I was a beta whore at the time, so I really didn’t care, just as long as I got some input on the fic. So I open the two documents and add a window with the following: “Warnings for: Blood, angst, disturbing content, and slash.”

Of course, the man has no idea what slash IS. So that’s one lost on him.

So I wait, and it goes like this.

Dad: ::read read read::

Me: Well?

Dad: O_O This is good. Really good. This is like Stephen King.

Me: OK. Go for version 2. ::clicks on window::

Dad: ::read read read:: O_O

Me: Well?

This is the part where I get called into the room where no one can hear you scream…yesh, the sound-proof room of doom. Right here is where I’m wondering if he caught the rampant GAY in the fic, because he didn’t seem to notice it before.

Dad: This scene—it’s good—but the first one—you should take some stuff from the second one—put it in the first one—oh, man! And you should do this with THIS (ish rabidly pointing at things)…

Ladies and gentlemen, I just elicited a ‘fanboy’ reaction from my dad.

XD
Probably wouldn’t have happened if he’d caught the blatant GAY.
But then again, I had a homophobe beta a yaoi excerpt and he was impressed with the writing.

Guess I did something right.

The Spectre Scene, Revisited.

And it so happens that my muses have decided to make a second version of that scene. I didn’t want to do it. They made me do it! (hides from mad scary muses) This one is a little darker, a lot bloodier, and the yaoi is even more blatant. Well, I guess it was blatant before. I mean, come on, the spectre’s male. The spectre, who is male, is effectively molesting Vincent Valentine, who we all know is all man.

I guess what I mean by ‘blatant yaoi’ is that there’s more happening than Vincent getting effectively molested. Now, it’s become more of an almost foreplay-like scene, with more sadistic attention paid to the actions performed by the spectre…well, just read it. But I’m only posting a little here so that it doesn’t mess with the entire flow.

 

( Spectre Scene, version 2 )

What I need to know is this: Which version should I go with in the final copy. I’ve only gotten as far as the third chapter, but I know one thing for certain. And that fact is that everyone’s favorite spectre will be back for at least one more appearance. If I go with the first version (let’s call it the ‘soft’ version) then the level that I’ll need for the second appearance will be about the same as what you see here. But if I go with this one, the level for his next appearance will have to be either a) way creepier, b) way bloodier, or c) borderline smut.

For some reason, I wanna go with option c) borderline smut. Maybe I’m turning into a pervert.

Oh, on the topic of perversion, the Reno/Rufus fic is getting close to its—erm, climax.

I swear, I didn’t mean to make that pun. But I can’t come up with another way to phrase it.

*SPLAM!*