ugh ugh ugh
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batskeetsGuh, I hate sex scenes. I don't really like seeing them in movies or reading them in books, because 90% of the time, they're completely unnecessary to the plot. (moreso in film than in literature, I think, but still ;p) The only time I'm really able to get into it is if both the people involved are people I find attractive. This usually means that both participants are men*, so yeah, you can probably figure what most of my problem is right there. ADSFDLFSAHLKHA!! But yeah, most of the time, it's just a big "yawn, yeah, hurry up and get to the next scene" sort of thing.
But anyway, more specific to the original statement, I hate writing sex scenes. The chapter I just wrote was the most painful chapter I've written yet, and the characters didn't even have actual sex! Just some very light foreplay, and I didn't even describe it in an explicit way. Usually, I can just write around it with the "tasteful fade-out" beforehand, or by jumping to after it occurs. This chapter, however, had to do with sexual dysfunction occuring in the relationship, as a sign that said relationship will eventually fail, so I *really* couldn't get around it. Aaaaaagggh.
So, yeah. No more on-screen booty for my MC. Believe it.
Work is boring, boring, boring. I'm writing a lot, though, so that's good. I have 40 more minutes until I can turn the phones off, and there hasn't been a call in half an hour. Pray that I go home early, my darlings!
* Yes, by this, I mean that gay sex scenes are the ones that most consistently do it for me. Chicks aren't any fun to watch, *especially* when they're bony, anorexic Hollywood chicks with no breasts. EW. Also, female characters seem to get saddled with more annoying traits, so by the time they get laid, it's like they don't even deserve the honor. But that's probably one to blame on the writers. BOOOOO!
But anyway, more specific to the original statement, I hate writing sex scenes. The chapter I just wrote was the most painful chapter I've written yet, and the characters didn't even have actual sex! Just some very light foreplay, and I didn't even describe it in an explicit way. Usually, I can just write around it with the "tasteful fade-out" beforehand, or by jumping to after it occurs. This chapter, however, had to do with sexual dysfunction occuring in the relationship, as a sign that said relationship will eventually fail, so I *really* couldn't get around it. Aaaaaagggh.
So, yeah. No more on-screen booty for my MC. Believe it.
Work is boring, boring, boring. I'm writing a lot, though, so that's good. I have 40 more minutes until I can turn the phones off, and there hasn't been a call in half an hour. Pray that I go home early, my darlings!
* Yes, by this, I mean that gay sex scenes are the ones that most consistently do it for me. Chicks aren't any fun to watch, *especially* when they're bony, anorexic Hollywood chicks with no breasts. EW. Also, female characters seem to get saddled with more annoying traits, so by the time they get laid, it's like they don't even deserve the honor. But that's probably one to blame on the writers. BOOOOO!
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Date: 2003-11-30 06:17 am (UTC)I also feel much the same about writing them. I have a couple in my book, and I don't want them to be too explicit cause then it's like, "Am I writing erotic fiction here?" but I don't want to be too vague cause what's going on has a bearing on pretty much everything. Well, if not everything, at least a good portion of the book.
Mostly I always feel like I'm handling them entirely wrong. That they aren't realistic or interesting at all.
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