Fanfiction Meme - Day 14

14 – Ratings – how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you're writing is G-rated instead?

I've written the Really Naughty Stuff, but it's not so much a matter of being comfortable as writing it believably. (I've written straight smut too, and that too tended to be a little unrealistic). I do prefer to do the whole "what they're feeling" rather than "What they're doing" in the naughty bits. More of M or MA (M+/R US) than NC-17. This doesn't mean that I don't like reading it - I just prefer my smut to be believable and I have problems myself writing that.

And I was very amused when, by total accident. "Still Life" ended up G rated! (I only called it PG because of one reference to "Merlin's large and pendulous hairy ..."). In fact, the review of it that I loved the most was from a lady who had cracked up laughing reading it and her nine-year-old had asked what was so funny, so she read it to her daughter!

( All the questions behind the cut so that you don't get bored - but you can find them when you want them. )