A Question That Has Nothing At All To Do With the Scene I Just Wrote

[snurri]

Didja ever write something that made you so uncomfortable with your own brain that you had to physically move away from the manuscript in order to rid yourself of the wiggins?

Comments

[mastadge.livejournal.com]

No.

[sarah-prineas.livejournal.com]

Certainly not!

[blackaire.livejournal.com]

Yes. Mine involved a shoot for fake snuff porn and kicking someone in the balls.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ayep.

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

Surely the correct answer is "no comment."

[jennreese.livejournal.com]

Frequently. But even that stuff wasn't as bad as writing an actual sex scene. That still creeps me out. :-)

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

No. Was it dirty?

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

No, but I just wanted to say that I haven't heard the word "wiggins" used sinceBuffy was on and you have reminded me I should use it more often. Wiggins wiggins wiggins.

Yup.

[timalyne.livejournal.com]

Jay Lake took that experience story for TEL: Stories...

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, once or twice...

Wiggins, there's a great word that doesn't get used enough.

[ninstorage.livejournal.com]

Yes, happens to me all the time, even if I don't know what the wiggins are. But sometimes what I write disturbs me so much, it keeps me up at night.

[matthewsrotundo.livejournal.com]

Yes. Recently, in fact. A murder scene that literally nauseated me. And were not talking about gruesome dismemberment or anything like that.

I still get a little echo of that nausea when I reread it.

Others have told me that scene was pretty creepy, so I guess it works.

[scottjanssens.livejournal.com]

Yup. one reader gave it a one word critique: "Ew."