I'm not over 50 Shades.
I mean, it's still happening, isn't it? There's at least one more terrible movie to come out, if not two.
So I was wondering what I could do express my grievances with 50 Shades, of which I have a few (as seen here and here and in fact, my entire 50 Shades of Realism page).
I tried rewriting it, but honestly that's too much work and it just makes me want to write my own original BDSM erotic romance novel. Which I am, by the way. The working title is Baby, Let Me Tie You Up. I have something like 1/3 of it written and none of it is published anywhere, but you can check out my Pinterest board here.
Then maybe I could spork it - aka recap and comment? Sure, but that has already been done by Jenny Trout, Erika, Gehayi and Ket, The Snark Squad and at least a couple of others I'm not remembering. (Check them out, they're all great). And I just don't think I have anything new or original enough to add to justify my own recaps. Plus, sporking kind of makes me angry and frustrated, so I'd rather focus my energy into something creative.
But then. I thought of something different I could do. I'm calling this 50 Shades of Grey - The Second Draft.
Basically, what I do is I go over the text with a fine comb and I, uh... fix it.
I won't change anything huge in terms of plot and big character points, but I will change a lot of little things. Dialogue, dialogue tags, character actions etc, until I have a more coherent text with less misogyny, abuse, bdsm bashing and so on. I'm not editing per se - editing requires less work that what I'm doing - and it's not a rewrite either, because that requires more work than what I'm doing. It basically is a second draft. If the second draft was made by an entirely different person.
I think there's a solid three star book somewhere in 50 Shades and I'll try my best to pull it up to the surface. The results will be posted on my accounts in a3o and ff.net and linked here and all over my tumblr and twitter.
And if you want to support me in this project, you can Buy Me a Coffee.
Hi!! I'm excited for this :) are you still going to update your Divergent and After sporkings or are you not sporking anymore?
ReplyDeleteThank you! I'm planning on reworking After so they're more recaps than line by line sporks (I actually have ~20ish chapters ready, they just need some more editing and a beta and they will be published here. I won't be on LJ anymore and the format on DreamWidth doesn't do well with gifs and macros.)
DeleteI probably won't be doing Divergent though. It's too time consuming and I actually want to work on my creative projects. and it makes me tired in my soul. I don't even have enough anger to power through it, it's just perpetual exhaustion.