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The Fifth Harmonic...some minor spoilers - Scott Miller - 12-27-2005
fpw Wrote:But one of the best reasons to avoid writing sex scenes is their tendency to tinge the prose a deep purple. Writers keep trying to turn coupling into something cosmic. I may have felt the earth move, but the universe has never sundered around me and dropped me through a throbbing lava of sensation and release that left me washed up limp and damp on the shores of the sea of ecstacy. (Did I mix enough metaphors there? Anyone want to add more?)
Better not let Mary read this one. :p
I might add something about waves crashing and butterflies fluttering, but you're the published one so you probably know best.
The Fifth Harmonic...some minor spoilers - Blake - 12-27-2005
fpw Wrote:I don't follow my characters into the bathroom either because (an even safer assumption) we're all familiar with human excretory functions.
And just think of all the adverbs you'd have to use.
Blake
The Fifth Harmonic...some minor spoilers - Maggers - 12-27-2005
KRW Wrote:It was pretty graphic wasn't it? That's why I read it three times!
KRW
I read "5th Harmonic," liked it alot and have absolutely no recollection of any sex in it at all. :confused:
The Fifth Harmonic...some minor spoilers - fpw - 12-27-2005
Blake Wrote:And just think of all the adverbs you'd have to use.
Blake
"He flatulated copiously and odiferously." (Shades of JKR!)
The Fifth Harmonic...some minor spoilers - Maggers - 12-27-2005
fpw Wrote:"He flatulated copiously and odiferously." (Shades of JKR!)
Would that be "odoriferously," she asked, winking slyly?
The Fifth Harmonic...some minor spoilers - Blake - 12-27-2005
fpw Wrote:"He flatulated copiously and odiferously."
Bzzzzt. I'm sorry, but the word we were looking for was "gruntingly". That's "gruntingly". Thank you for playing.
Blake
The Fifth Harmonic...some minor spoilers - rjnix_0329 - 12-27-2005
Yes, exactly, the scene was deeper than sex, which is why it makes more sense later, when she explains. At the time, though, it's a shocker because of the difference in style. As you said, you rarely follow your characters through the motions of simple activities. Suprises are generally a good thing though
.RJ
The Fifth Harmonic...some minor spoilers - Lisa - 12-27-2005
I am re-reading REPRISAL and just ran across a sex scene in there too. Just so you guys who are keeping track know.
Lisa
The Fifth Harmonic...some minor spoilers - KRW - 12-27-2005
Maggers Wrote:I read "5th Harmonic," liked it alot and have absolutely no recollection of any sex in it at all. :confused:
It probably wasn't as good for the women as it was for the men!
KRW
The Fifth Harmonic...some minor spoilers - fpw - 12-28-2005
Lisa Wrote:I am re-reading REPRISAL and just ran across a sex scene in there too. Just so you guys who are keeping track know.
Forgot about that one myself. But it served a purpose as well.