Covenant - This is "IT"
Dec. 25th, 2007 08:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ostarellaI am about to embark on something which I never (or hardly ever) considered doing before.
I am going to write a sex scene.
Okay - now that you have all climbed back up onto your chairs, let me qualify that. ;-) While this will undoubtedly send the rating to an "R", I have no intention of writing a rutting scene. Nor will it be wine and roses.
And no - it's not going to be male on male.
Now, how I happened to be thinking about this on a bright and crisp Christmas morning, - don't ask. But, at this point in the story (whether or not it happens in this chapter or the next), some revelations need to be made about the main character. Only he's not ready for that - maybe he never will be, who knows - but the story demands it for future reference. Erego - he must have an "intimate" - someone who he feels able to say things to that he normally would never feel comfortable even thinking. And someone wise enough (or experienced enough) to connect the dots between what he says and what he does - and all that other rigamarole.
Anyway, I didn't want to just write A goes around B and into C. So I did some checking around the web and found many sites that tell you exactly how to do this. But I wanted someone to tell me (or at least give me some guidance) in writing it the way *I* wanted it, not raunchy, not romantic, not as *the point* of the scene. And I found two sites that did exactly that:
http://www.pamcrooks.com/writers_tips.htm
http://www.hodrw.com/lovescenemaryg.htm
I am nervous as hell about this, and yet I'm looking forward to it. Another experiment in a story that seems to be full of them. We shall see if it works, or blows up in my face. ;-)
I am going to write a sex scene.
Okay - now that you have all climbed back up onto your chairs, let me qualify that. ;-) While this will undoubtedly send the rating to an "R", I have no intention of writing a rutting scene. Nor will it be wine and roses.
And no - it's not going to be male on male.
Now, how I happened to be thinking about this on a bright and crisp Christmas morning, - don't ask. But, at this point in the story (whether or not it happens in this chapter or the next), some revelations need to be made about the main character. Only he's not ready for that - maybe he never will be, who knows - but the story demands it for future reference. Erego - he must have an "intimate" - someone who he feels able to say things to that he normally would never feel comfortable even thinking. And someone wise enough (or experienced enough) to connect the dots between what he says and what he does - and all that other rigamarole.
Anyway, I didn't want to just write A goes around B and into C. So I did some checking around the web and found many sites that tell you exactly how to do this. But I wanted someone to tell me (or at least give me some guidance) in writing it the way *I* wanted it, not raunchy, not romantic, not as *the point* of the scene. And I found two sites that did exactly that:
http://www.pamcrooks.com/writers_tips.htm
http://www.hodrw.com/lovescenemaryg.htm
I am nervous as hell about this, and yet I'm looking forward to it. Another experiment in a story that seems to be full of them. We shall see if it works, or blows up in my face. ;-)
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