Writing A simple nude scene

[bwm1013]

I’m writing a Lilo Nani collection of stories. It’ll feature no sex, just both sisters in various situations nude. I want to start out with a snuggling on the couch scene. Any ideas on how to make it work?

[InvidiaRed]

Well, start with a logical approach. Why are they nude?

Hawaii can get very humid. Enough to make wearing any clothing uncomfortable.

[pippychick]

I don’t know the fandom, but...

If you’re after keeping the situation fairly platonic and familial, then that’s easy enough. You can do that by way of what the sisters notice about each other while they’re snuggled together. As the author, you provide the cues for the reader. If, however, you want the situation to be erotic for the reader, just not for the characters, that’s a slightly more tricky proposition.

In that case, I’d suggest pulling the narrative back from the characters a little at times, so that you can be quite descriptive about what’s going on physically, without needing to involve how the two sisters feel about it, as such, and just dipping in here and there to peek at them enjoying these moments as sisters.

If, on yet another hand (is that three so far?) you want to have a kind of charged erotic situation with some unresolved sexual tension going on, well then you’re probably best off concentrating on one of the characters, and going deep into them. Letting them have all their dirty thoughts, while trying on the surface not to let it become apparent in what they do. Particularly focus if they feel any guilt or shame. Those emotions are always good, especially where incest is concerned, as characters will generally try to rationalise it for themselves.

If, on a fourth hand (and at this point I’m probably using someone else’s hands), the sisters are already in some kind of established incestuous thing and they’re both cool with it, but for some reason they’re not going to start eating each other or something… well, then I really don’t belong on this thread… *runs away*

 

[GeorgeGlass]

The important thing is to establish why Lilo and especially Nani consider snuggling naked together to be normal, acceptable behavior, at least from their own perspective. Maybe their parents were nudists or were otherwise comfortable being nude around the house, in front of the kids. Or maybe the frequent nudity was a habit that Nani fell into after their parents died; maybe there was a heat wave one summer, and Nani couldn't afford to keep the air conditioning running all the time (if they even have A/C at the house), so she started wearing less and less at home. Lilo, free spirit that she is, probably would think this was a dandy idea, to the point that Nani would have to remind her not to go running around outside without her clothes on.

As for the snuggling, being each other's only family might draw them closer together. Nani is probably Lilo's only source of physical affection.

[bwm1013]

I’ll go with the parents were nudist idea.

[Desiderius Price]

3 hours ago, GeorgeGlass said:

The important thing is to establish why Lilo and especially Nani consider snuggling naked together to be normal, acceptable behavior, at least from their own perspective. Maybe their parents were nudists or were otherwise comfortable being nude around the house, in front of the kids. Or maybe the frequent nudity was a habit that Nani fell into after their parents died; maybe there was a heat wave one summer, and Nani couldn't afford to keep the air conditioning running all the time (if they even have A/C at the house), so she started wearing less and less at home. Lilo, free spirit that she is, probably would think this was a dandy idea, to the point that Nani would have to remind her not to go running around outside without her clothes on.

As for the snuggling, being each other's only family might draw them closer together. Nani is probably Lilo's only source of physical affection.

Funny enough, IIRC, the summer heat wave many years ago (in a house w/o AC) as a kid is how I started sleeping nude.