Writing Journal: The Adjusters #51 is chugging along swimmingly—and I think I even have the sex scene now. Oh, and just to warn you: I'm probably going to take a month off after that installment to think seriously about Book V, which is sketched out but rather roughly.
Two stories caught my eye this week.
The first is Beauty Queen Slut by Girdleman2: “A former top Hong Kong whore returns to prostitution.” Ongoing, but I love the setup, and a former high-class actress/escort forced to return to whoring of a much seedier kind tickles my inner misanthrope. Delightfully dark.
The second is Recession Blues, by RogueAlan: “Wife finds stripping pays the bills; what more will she do?” Actually, the original storyline is by Stormbringer, as a script for a cartoon story at Illustrated Interracial. This is the “novelization,” as the author says. Nice little story of a cheating wife that can't control her libido.
Thanks Judd. And indeed, I view the break as taking a deep breath before starting Book V. Or palate cleansing, to use a different analogy.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the sex scenes are concerned, I approach it not so much as "necessary because of porn" (though I agree that for some people it probably factors into their reading) but rather as an interesting constraint that I have to take into account when designing the installments.
For instance, for #51, I had no idea what to do for a sex scene, since there was no clear place to fit one, but once I started to think about possible points of view that could let me have someone boinking someone else (with an MC theme if possible because genre), one suggested itself and it provides the perfect coda for Book IV. And it also lets me develop some characters, to boot.