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[bluflamingo]

Oh my God, I think I'm writing a comedy.

How did *that* happen?

Not only that, but I think I'm writing a body swap comedy, which is just way too crack cliche.

Add in the fact that I started a short story which turned out to be a detective story (the case of the missing flamingo, and no, it's not blue, though there are several jokes about disguising it so).

I think it's a reaction to writing all my depressing lgbtfest fic. I hope so, anyway - the level of plot involved in a detective story doesn't work for me, since I don't plot from the start. Hence the reason it was going to be an office story and turned into a detective story in three lines.

Though, I was reading...someone, I forget who... during the last race discussions, who suggested that, unless there's a good reason for the character to be a straight, white man, they be something else, and have been trying it out. And ended up with a British-Asian lesbian as my mc, who I'm kind of ridiculously enamoured of, considering she only exists in my head. But she did propel the whole story forward, so I say, this is good advice, we all should try it.

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[bluflamingo]

I think it's one of those bits of advice that, once you read it, you think, well, yes, of course, why didn't I think of it sooner (general you, obviously)

[kate]

Yes, exactly. It seems so obvious. It makes me feel a little faily not to have thought about it before.