love scenes
Several of you have written with your concern and well-wishes for Sin and Tori, in hopes that they’ve made it through their first love scene together.
And while they have indeed consummated their relationship, it is, at present, a very un-layered coupling, consisting of, insert tab A into tab B (okay, well, some things are layered) with some murmured and not so-murmured oaths here and there. And Sylvia, I’ll be contacting you about those Russian phrases in a bit. Because that’s one of the great things about being a writer — you get to have things on your to-do list like:
*Contact Sylvia and ask her to translate murmured sex phrases into Russian.
Who else besides a writer can really say they have that on their to-do list?
But, back to Sin and Tori. Tori’s no virgin, so that helps. And I think I’ve figured out why the scene was giving me problems. I was trying to make them have a very sort of rough and tumble love scene, since that’s what the situation calls for. And then I was trying to soften it by having things progress into the whole, “I’m falling for you” emotion immediately following the scene. But really, just rough and tumble fits the scene. The emotion is already there, in subtext. And, since I plotted (and I’m using that term VERY loosely here, so those of you who know me can stop laughing now.) I know that, in the next scene, someone’s going to try to break in the room and try to kill them. So rough and tumble fits for now, followed by the near-killing, which will allow Sin and Tori to get even closer.
Personal Mantra to remember: Listen to the characters and do not rush them. They will lead you in the right direction. They always have.
And, thanks to blog-surfing and PBW, I created this:
But I have to recant it a little, since the husband is downloading the digital camera software onto it (which I’ve been too lazy to do on the laptop) So maybe, since everyone’s been taking pictures of their office and their plotting boards, I’ll be able to join them.
Of course, my plotting board is pretty much blank. So I might have to just take pictures of the pile of pretty colored sticky notes and the messy office.
Steph T.
January 28th, 2005 at 2:10 pm
LMAO! My Plotting board has three stickies on it. One of each color. If you post a pic of yours, I’llpost one of mine! *hehehehe*
Good job on letting the characters drive!
January 28th, 2005 at 2:32 pm
Did you get the Russian stuff I sent you last week? Just checking.
January 28th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
Sasha - I’ll email you when I get the stuff loaded so we can post our sad little boards together *g*
And yes, Sylvia! I’ve incorporated what you sent last week, but now I need to kick things up a notch, if you know what I mean ;)
January 28th, 2005 at 6:19 pm
Okay, Steph, stealing from your panster book. If you can *plot*, I can write a scene out of order. Maybe if I let Rob and Julie consummate ANYTHING, I’ll be able to write SOMETHING.
January 28th, 2005 at 6:34 pm
I bring yet another writer over to the dark side of writing their book out of order.
*insert crazy laughter here*
Amy will be so proud of me.
January 29th, 2005 at 1:30 am
Plots? We don’t need no stinking plots! Er, maybe that was badges. Need to go watch Blazing Saddles and learn to plot.
January 29th, 2005 at 5:26 am
You ladies slay me….insert gecko. Sex phases in Russian… sounds very interesting.
Jerri
January 29th, 2005 at 8:55 am
My sticky notes keep falling off. *frown*
It’s like a game to keep my occupied–Pin the Plot Point back on the Board.
(I think maybe I should try posterboard instead of the dry erase board I love) (Or…I should just buy a package of colored dry-erase pens)
NYET! NYET!
January 30th, 2005 at 8:58 am
*waves to Jerri*
Shannon - my sticky notes stay in place on my dry earase board - maybe it has something to do with the fact that I never move them. Or touch the plotting board at all. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I can’t seem to plot.