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simpleslash
Description from community info page:
For readers who want to read a good story without the smut, and for writers who want to write a good story without the smut.
The vast majority of slash or yaoi fictions seems to be comprised of sex. I don't have a problem with sex or smut in stories. I read it and enjoy as much as the next person. But I think there are more than a few authors out there--like myself--who don't write it and feel that, as a result, they lose some credibility as slash or yaoi writers.
I think many of us, at one time or another, have received a review suggesting that a story might have been better had their been sex in it. As though a good plot and characters are not enough to sustain a story and make it worth reading.
So, too, I imagine some readers are not necessarily always inspired to wade through a lot of sex for the sake of advancing the plot. Again I stress, I am not against sex in a story. But sometimes I--and I would imagine others--would just like to read a simple story without the sex or the smut. Something modest and PG; just as enjoyable, but not as hard.
So I open this community to readers and writers both who want a simple slash story, without all the explicit detail.
Thoughts, anyone? I'd like to hear the opinions of fellow smut-lovahs and writers on this one.
the_originals simpleslashDescription from community info page:
For readers who want to read a good story without the smut, and for writers who want to write a good story without the smut.
The vast majority of slash or yaoi fictions seems to be comprised of sex. I don't have a problem with sex or smut in stories. I read it and enjoy as much as the next person. But I think there are more than a few authors out there--like myself--who don't write it and feel that, as a result, they lose some credibility as slash or yaoi writers.
I think many of us, at one time or another, have received a review suggesting that a story might have been better had their been sex in it. As though a good plot and characters are not enough to sustain a story and make it worth reading.
So, too, I imagine some readers are not necessarily always inspired to wade through a lot of sex for the sake of advancing the plot. Again I stress, I am not against sex in a story. But sometimes I--and I would imagine others--would just like to read a simple story without the sex or the smut. Something modest and PG; just as enjoyable, but not as hard.
So I open this community to readers and writers both who want a simple slash story, without all the explicit detail.
Thoughts, anyone? I'd like to hear the opinions of fellow smut-lovahs and writers on this one.
