Desiderius Price

42704 Gives me hope of actually being able to … gasp … FINISH the thing (still years away)

42702 Well, the progress on my story is freaking awesome… 98k so far this month.

42700 and it’s worse for me, gotten into a habit of really early rises, so I’m already up, writing before work.

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Finish? That’s heresy… 🤪 More seriously, been trying to focus on finishing things too, so far resisting the urge to start new stories. Do need to consider if I want to break my writing streak to write up a Halloween story or not.

The long hiatus is something that happened with my potter fanfic. For about a dozen years, no updates, then all the alerts started to flare up, I’m sure, people going “wait, I alerted on that?”.

Well, depending on circumstances, you can have OTHER characters talking. Maybe it’s the radio/TV in the background. Maybe it’s others around the corner wondering why there’s underwear on the floor. (Or in some of my works, the characters don’t mind giving a show.) Talking could be important or not, in the end, it’d help break up long descriptive paragraphs.

Well, you can always go back and rewrite it! Now, I’ve got my originals all in the same universe, so serials, spinoffs, are a frequent thing so I usually do have a way to revisit characters that’ve grown on me. Luckily on my Potter fanfic, the ending is years away, so I’ve got a while on that one.

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Wait, you’re telling me that a character shouldn’t be getting off while giving a book report?

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It’s intriguing when stories/fandoms come up with unique alternatives to swear words too. (BSG… the original, looking at you) “Fade to black” is something I practice on my “cleaner” version of my potter fanfic, though you’ll typically find the full scenes in the explicit. Very useful when you want to show the buildup/circumstances, but want/need to leave the details up to the reader. Came up with a creative way on one Ron/Hermione date night, having Harry make commentary the next morning on the citations

Phone sex… or this Ron/Hermione scene I’m working on where I’ve got Ron trying to learn “healing” so becomes more of a “playing doctor” type of scenario.

Of course, swearing (or even talking) likely means they’re not really having sex, not yet, so is that actually part of the sex scene?

I’m pretty good at derailing anything off topic, I try to avoid it (usually). Profanity depends on the characterization too… boys in a locker room? That’s likely filled with expletives. A football coach? LIkely. Church? unlikely.

Counted… four orgasms in the last chapter I wrote. Pretty rare to actually get curse words, or even anything sharply worded, in them. Profanity’s kinda like a spice or flavoring, like garlic, cinnamon, or vanilla; a little bit goes a long ways. (Though I do tend to overdo garlic, tend to switch “clove” => “bulb” when I add it in.)

42674 Yeah, figured you’d fix that @Wilde_Guess. I know @Melrick loves getting in those 69s!

If a writer needs to advertise it’s a sex scene in order to be a “sex scene”, then I’d think something is lacking in the writing. Now, in certain contexts, a “fuck me” or “bang me” might be indicative of a character’s personality, or maybe there’s a scenario the two (or more) are roleplaying. (Though, I suppose you could have it be solo, somebody watching a B/C grade porn film.) Now, in the sex scenes I write, if there’s profanity, something’s going seriously wrong for the characters, or a copper’s busting them.