New anon here. Trufax. It really depends on the characters in the fandom, though, what kind of het writers can get away with. For example, I'd be willing to buy d/s with submissive Molly or Susan in a way I wouldn't be with Murphy. For Molly and Susan, it could easily be just another part of their sex life, but Murphy's life is so heavily built on displaying that she can be in charge and discarding any traditionally feminine trappings that a submissive Murphy would be more difficult to navigate. Not saying it couldn't be done, but you'd need to get into her headspace more, because it would be a vulnerability to her in a way it wouldn't be with other characters.
You also have to be able to escape the romance-novel pitfalls and write the characters as themselves, not archetypes. This is true in slash fiction as well (oh goodness is it ever true is slash fiction), but it's noticeable in a different way in het.
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Re: Fill: That Kind of Girl (3/?)
Date: 2011-02-13 06:51 am (UTC)You also have to be able to escape the romance-novel pitfalls and write the characters as themselves, not archetypes. This is true in slash fiction as well (oh goodness is it ever true is slash fiction), but it's noticeable in a different way in het.