Yep, I agree about the too-long love scenes. You have to be pretty darned creative to get love scenes sprawled over a dozen pages. We were talking about this on a loop the other day, and it really got funny. I can’t repeat what one clever woman said, but I can tell you she described one action and repeated and repeated and repeated it for at least twentyfive times. You know, when you laugh so hard you could write it as BWAHAHAHAH! Well, that was me. I’m so glad Gil was out in the yard, else he’d of thought I’d lost my mind.
Speaking of sex scenes-or even sexual tension scenes… Did you ever notice the vocabulary? Writing in early medieval (eleventh and twelfth century) times, you can’t call a certain body part what it is today. Nope. No such words were out there at the time. So, you use tarse, shaft, rod, pintle, manhood or manroot (yuck-makes me think of dirt all over it).
Doesn’t sound very romantic, does it?
JUst wanted to say ditto to your first commentor today. If I was interested in sex I would get pay per view or go to the 7-11 and get a behind the counter magazine. How do you create the sex scenes anyway? Maybe an unfair questions but do you use your own reality or scenes from other movies or books that struck aan appealing note or do you just have a wonderful imagination?
*shudder* NOOO sort of like my mother still calling it ‘whimwam”