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.
Scott
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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
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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:
Reading is freedom.
The mind soars, no earthly cares,
no limitations.
A Maggers Haiku, 2005
Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.
You may quote me.
Elwood P. Dowd
Blake Wrote:And just think of all the adverbs you'd have to use.
Blake
"He flatulated copiously and odiferously." (Shades of JKR!)
FPW
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fpw Wrote:"He flatulated copiously and odiferously." (Shades of JKR!)
Would that be "odoriferously," she asked, winking slyly?
Reading is freedom.
The mind soars, no earthly cares,
no limitations.
A Maggers Haiku, 2005
Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.
You may quote me.
Elwood P. Dowd
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
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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 
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RJ
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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
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.
FPW
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"It means 'Ask the next question.' Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It's the symbol of everything humanity has ever created." Theodore Sturgeon.