Why Do We Write Jonathan in a Dress Stories?
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| Title: | Why Do We Write Jonathan in a Dress Stories? |
| Creator: | Athena and Uris |
| Date(s): | July 18, 2003 |
| Medium: | online |
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| Topic: | Fanfiction |
| External Links: | Why Do We Write Jonathan in a Dress Stories?, Archived version |
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Why Do We Write Jonathan in a Dress Stories? is an essay by Athena and Uris.
It is part of the Fanfic Symposium series.
Excerpts
Many people write squirk stories: incest, crossdressing, male pregnancy, fisting to name a few. We (the writing team of Athena and Uris) cant speak for others, but we wrote our Jamie series in response to a discussion on why people read male pregnancy stories when they claim to hate them. We never wrote a "Jonathan in a dress" story, but we plead guilty to writing a Jim Ellison (The Sentinel) in a dress story. Our first Jamie story (now called Having Your Baby) was written as an anti-male pregnancy story. We wrote it because it addressed the issues we felt other male pregnancy stories didnt address. It contains the issues of crossdressing, gender identity (Am I a mother or a father?), and abortion, sometimes in the same paragraph. An author or writing team writes because the muse tells them the story must be written. In our case, the muse tells one of us that it must be written, and Athena and Uris delete and rewrite each others paragraphs until we have a story a completed story or a blank Word document. Uris wrote Blair's line, Just because I'm the byproduct of an unwanted pregnancy doesn't mean I have to be pro-life for shock value. We have written male pregnancy, transgender stories, and bestiality. However, we wrote these stories because we had something to say. If people wrote merely to shock, there would be a hundred "Jonathan in a dress" stories and we've yet to see one.