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Nice to have an honest scale. Though, it’ll likely lie and inflate the numbers once I let it out of its box.

41651 It’s not the first time this count has gotten a tad derailed. Nobody said counting to infinity was going to be easy!

I just finished another story and I noticed something weird about my writing. This story involved a character who is played by the same actor who was in another story that I wrote. In both cases, I wrote a scene involving the character doing a dance. It completely wasn’t planned but it just felt like something I should do. So, what have you noticed you do over and over again, or at least more than once, with a character or just writing content that happens to feature similar themes or things the characters are doing?

I shake it up… most of my scenes tend to be quick. Vary the location, the technique, the pairing, & don’t forget props, along with the main thread of the story too. My Harry in my Potter fanfic has a new wrinkle… so he’s gotta be careful to not be too overt with it.

Jeff’s in a nudist camp/retreat. I’ve got the teen boys hiking in the buff in Alaska due to not having enough clothes (and not wanting to scuttle the trek). In my potter fanfic, got Ash (a first year) wanting to lodge a protest so he strips in frustration at Hogwarts. Mostly, yeah, hanging out naked… though sometimes the sexual stuff comes through, it’s not nude for the sake of being sexual, rather a flirtation of sexuality while otherwise simply being stark naked.

Non-sexual nudity? So just hanging out being naked? I’ve had one or two scenes involving this. Although in my examples it was unintentional. I had one scene where a character was changing and another person walks in unexpectedly. They are interested in each other though. Would that be non-sexual?

Yes, that’s definitely a problem with writing. There’s only a certain number of ways people can physically touch each other. I had this problem with a recent story. I wasn’t sure whether a way they were getting sexual with each other is physically possible. I figured out that it probably was but I don’t think I’d ever seen people do it.

Non-sexual nudity tends to feature in my stories, characters seem to have that urge to become nudists

I tend to do it more within a single story. I had one editor tell me that if my MC drank one more cup of tea, she was going to explode. Other than that, I find it’s very easy to fall into the same way of describing sexual acts. There really are a finite number of ways most normal humans fit together, but it irks me when I find myself falling back on the same tired descriptions, you know? I’m actually experimenting with a fade-to-black approach in one f my WIPs just to avoid the whole bother.

41654 We get rushed, sometimes I’m typing it out on my phone so typos are easy.

41653 I went back to check if I was the one who fecked up for once it wasn’t me (And then I nearly repeated Desi’s number, but caught it just in time before I posted )

41652 I’m trying to avoid those infinite loops!

41644 … @Wilde_Guess you sent us back on the count. This includes @kagome26isawsome and @Melrick getting caught up in the miscount.