HELP! Epic songs for epic kisses. Ballady whatever.

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I am trying to write a fanfic where it involves an epic make-out moment, and... I don't know what to listen to!

Music is VITAL to my writing process. And all I can seem to find to listen to on my comp is break-up songs! ARGH!

I need some quick recs. Something sweeping. Romantic. Swooning. Swooping. Other cleaning & vertical movement metaphors, I don't know. I'm not asking for links, just names I can play from youtube or something. Anything to jolt my brain into the right sphere of sappy romantic thinking! They can be totally mainstream, too. I don't discriminate in my pop.

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllppppppppppppppppppp!

ETA: The pairing I'm trying to write for is Uhura/Spock, if that helps.



ETA 3: 1. You guys are so thoughtful for responding! 2. I don't think my romantic vernacular matches everyone else's, apparently. I should figure out how to fix that. To clarify my confusing and incomprehensible request above: Not slow songs, because slow songs tend to be sad even if they are romantic and my brain thinks sweeping/swooning/epic = big music and energy. Seventy-six bloody trombones.

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my ramble 2

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

You must watch Buffy! I would be dying to know where your shipping feeling goes when you watch it. There's two main possibilities: the Bad Boyfriend who broods and guards you from a distance with cryptic advice but kisses really freaking well and loves you completely, or the Bad Boyfriend who takes you to play drunken kitten poker and has crazy hot sex and always has your back and loves you completely. Both solid choices! (but some more solid than others, LOL.)


How are you updating your story, and where? Is it for Nanowrimo, or will it be done in a Nanowrimo-esque way? Is it completely original fic?

I haven't written any yet--no, that's a lie. I wrote 3 lines of dialogue with a vagina joke. But really, I haven't started yet. I'm trying to work out the parameters of what I want the story to be, so I'm writing a lot of notes about characters, symbols, relationships. I'll probably try the actual writing when I feel like I have a good idea of the main characters and what they want. I may need a giant story wall or something, LOL, to chart it out.

It's completely original, yes. I was thinking about my enjoyment of the recent superhero movies, and about how the only superheroes I've ever really liked were Buffy and Sailor Moon, and how I'd like to see more shows like that. So I decided I'd create my own superhero, written by a woman for a general audience. Plus, I was feeling I needed to start writing something original already or I'd go crazy.

I'm treating it like fic, because fic doesn't scare me. Irrel's helping with that because I talk to her about it as if it were fanfic. With fic, I have to know about the characters before hand. A starting place. Likewise, I'm trying to create a starting place right now in my head and in my notes. Certain rules about the verse, and rules about the characters. Basic profiles, personal ticks, etc. I've heard that outlining is a bad idea, but I've often outlined fanfic, and I can't operate on a blank slate. I get overwhelmed.

Re: my ramble 2

[rasielle.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I already know which of the two sounds like more fun. "Guards from the distance with cryptic advice" - he'd have to try a little harder, is all I'm saying.

Story wall! Those are always fun. Hmmm, I dunno, I find outlining DOES help; the only thing about it that I can imagine needs warning is potential inflexiblity - new ideas that would need fitting, you know. Plus, outlines help to eliminate plot holes in advance; before I started outlining, I once wrote a character as 12 years old and then became so caught up in my new, new ideas that I ended up showing her in a 16-year-old flashback. O-oops.

Wouldn't it be cool if you started a new trend? It's about damn time that girls had more fictional women to look up to than Disney princesses (maybe this is why Sailor Moon became so popular?)