What's the protocol for when you haven't put something on your list of squicks, but when you get your assignment, you wish you had? And what if it's not so much a squick as a "Um... sure, whatever floats your boat, but gosh, that sounds as sexy and intriguing to me as collecting fridge magnets"? Because it's not a squick. There's nothing wrong with it. I'm not turned off. I just don't get the attraction, in any way at all.
Yeah. Happened to me.
If it is a squick, then contact the mods whether it would be okay to leave it out.
If it's just something you're indifferent to but the requestor wishes for it strongly then you can attempt to write it. I have but I don't think I succeeded. Since then, I thought of a new trick: (actually two) 1) to mix it with something that does turn you on, and channel that into this thing that doesn't. 2) imagine you and your requestor are two of your characters: the person whose POV you write (i.e. you) isn't turned on by it, but his/her partner (your requestor) is. So he/she tries to accomodate the partner and gets something in return from the partner that turns them on. That has the chance of actually working in reality too, right?
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Date: 2008-03-13 08:21 am (UTC)Yeah. Happened to me.
If it is a squick, then contact the mods whether it would be okay to leave it out.
If it's just something you're indifferent to but the requestor wishes for it strongly then you can attempt to write it. I have but I don't think I succeeded. Since then, I thought of a new trick: (actually two) 1) to mix it with something that does turn you on, and channel that into this thing that doesn't. 2) imagine you and your requestor are two of your characters: the person whose POV you write (i.e. you) isn't turned on by it, but his/her partner (your requestor) is. So he/she tries to accomodate the partner and gets something in return from the partner that turns them on. That has the chance of actually working in reality too, right?