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I finished Fortress, the sequel to Squared with the Audrey/Duke/Jennifer/Nathan foursome action. It's ~30,000 words long. That's in draft, longhand, and usually they gain a few thou when typed.
Again with the despairing cry of, "It was never meant to be that long!"
Why I felt compelled to do this to myself I do not know, considering it's difficult enough trying to manage the relationship dynamics of writing a threesome and there are people far better than me at writing the polyamory. I'm like, how do you even manage those dynamics, with a foursome? I end up mostly treating them as two couples who live in each other's pockets and sometimes swap and change. And my mind goes straight back to Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Forbidden Tower because that's the only place I've read anything remotely like a foursome relationship dynamic before. (I was about 14. It was an eye-opener.)
Wish someone else would write this 'ship. Troublesfest produced a couple of other things that skirted it, but nothing that jumped in and had them all in bed together. (Do I always jump for the deep end and make life hard for myself?)
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Actually, guys, a request: rec me foursome fics? I'm intrigued. I want to know how other writers have handled it.
Again with the despairing cry of, "It was never meant to be that long!"
Why I felt compelled to do this to myself I do not know, considering it's difficult enough trying to manage the relationship dynamics of writing a threesome and there are people far better than me at writing the polyamory. I'm like, how do you even manage those dynamics, with a foursome? I end up mostly treating them as two couples who live in each other's pockets and sometimes swap and change. And my mind goes straight back to Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Forbidden Tower because that's the only place I've read anything remotely like a foursome relationship dynamic before. (I was about 14. It was an eye-opener.)
Wish someone else would write this 'ship. Troublesfest produced a couple of other things that skirted it, but nothing that jumped in and had them all in bed together. (Do I always jump for the deep end and make life hard for myself?)
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Actually, guys, a request: rec me foursome fics? I'm intrigued. I want to know how other writers have handled it.
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