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No it’s not, why do you ask?

omg its been 2 years...IMBACK!

@InvidiaRed True! I’ve since adopted a policy of ‘write it if it feels right’ which I think is working well. I’ll write it with the momentum of the story and just let it go as long or as short as it needs to be. Mal, OF COURSE THAT HELPS! My chapters are a bit shorter, trying to keep them around 5k, and I think I have a similar approach. Along with what I mention just above, I do try to make sure there are two scenes in each chapter so one longer ‘main’ scene and then a shorter one. I think I’m still working really hard on the ‘making sure the smut advances the plot’, but also learning at the same time. And if it doesn’t directly advance the plot, I want it to tell us something new about the characters at the very least. I’ve been doing better since I started the rewrite. I had this one chapter which didn’t have a speck of sex in it – which I somehow only realized a week after posting it because it was so ingrained in the plot and I literally freaked out lol. Luckily it was kind of short so it didn’t kill the story or anything.

It’s nice when a plot bunny strikes after so long. I know exactly what that’s like. I had one strike after a very long pause, but it seems to have died half way through.

I have been stuck in writer’s block hell for so long I can’t even remember when it started. I know I bought a new laptop last year and never bothered to download any word processor to it. Why? I wasn’t going to use it. Then out of nowhere, at work, not a likely location, a rabid plot bunny attacked. It won’t let go. I’m so strangely excited. I thought that part of my brain had died. Cheers to the writers and their rabbits.

Download that word processor! Strike while the bunny is humping!

KassX, my current chapters tend to range around 10k, and I average 1-2 scenes per. Having said that though, I think it also greatly depends on how many characters you’re working with and the circumstances that are going on. A lot of times my main character, Alex will feature in both scenes. But sometimes he’s only in one. There was also a point in the story where he was gone for like 5-6 chapters and none of the sex scenes featured him. To me, the plot should ALWAYS dictate the smut. But, having said that, I AM writing smut so I always try to include at least one scene in every chapter. I also think that its more important for the smut to make sense and further the plot than to just be something gratuitous and tacted on because you needed smut. I don’t know if that helped, lol I just wanted to chime in!