The Reason I Avoid Writing Sex Scenes

[dr_pretentious]

What amazes me about having written 3053 words today is that I had several 3K days last November. How on earth did I do it?

Only 7684 words to go. How that will fit into two more days, I have no idea.

42,316 / 50,000 (84.6%)

For the first time, I have written a sex scene that is more than one sentence long. I'm too tired to reopen the file and count, but I would guess that the sex scene in question takes up maybe five or six sentences.

As a matter of general principle, I think one sentence is about the right length for a sex scene, since no writer can titillate the reader's mind as perfectly as the reader can titillate it for herself. If readers didn't prefer to imagine sex scenes for themselves, entirely unfettered by whatever the author has put on the page, there wouldn't be so very much fanfic out there.

Comments

[onyxtwilight.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not so hot at money, either, or the garbage, so I can't talk. In terms of "traditional household roles," I'm good at cooking, cleaning (although I tend not to clean when I live alone because I'm too easily distracted -- but when I live with others, I'll clean just about anything as long as I can have my super-duper gloves on, I just can't be bothered to actually LEAVE THE HOUSE with the garbage :-), and a number of other wife/consort sort of things, but I'm just not very practical about money stuff.

And anyway I didn't say I wanted to MARRY one. >>:-)

[shades-of-nyx.livejournal.com]

Smirks....
They follow you home like stray cats and ask to stay!
(In fact, mine actually had coveralls from when he worked as a mechanic embroidered with "Stray"!)
I always think of the character in the Merry Gentry books who was born of the Sidhe who had been spelled into feline shape when I see my Mate.