Yeah. Happened to me. Oh cool, I'm not the only one then! Yay!
Um, I mean, that's too bad, I'm sorry ;)
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? Oooh! Those both have incredible possibilities, you know.
And the plotbunnies are off!!
Um, OK, notsomuch because I have a twenty page paper of Boring Doom breathing down my neck, but the plotbunnies are at least stirring now, instead of looking at me pathetically before lying down for a nap.
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Oh cool, I'm not the only one then! Yay!
Um, I mean, that's too bad, I'm sorry ;)
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?
Oooh! Those both have incredible possibilities, you know.
And the plotbunnies are off!!
Um, OK, notsomuch because I have a twenty page paper of Boring Doom breathing down my neck, but the plotbunnies are at least stirring now, instead of looking at me pathetically before lying down for a nap.