You can’t truly call yourself peaceful unless you are capable of violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful. You’re harmless.
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so, anyways, I decide to name my characters static traits,
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So I see! Well, I'm in good company. Love both of your work.
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...so, anyways, I decide to name my characters static traits, and funny thing is? Once I have a name for them? Once I know? It becomes so easy to write a scene, using the knowledge of what drives them each time and wow, it’s amazing how I can just reference that in dialogue, in actions, in pushing the scene forward… and it's consistent as well!
Anyways, my way of saying thank you *hugs*
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I'm confused again...
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To me this is all a bunch of contrived B.S. all my writing comes from personal experience, straight from the heart driven by pure inspiration. But that's just me lol
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If you cook for a hobby, by all means chuck those ingredients around to your hearts content. Cooks follow recipes. Eventually you get to be a chef, and you understand the food so well you can adapt the recipe with skill to produce something exquisite and unique.
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Without ever knowing why I was doing it or what it was called, but somehow instinctively knowing it needed to be there, I have a "habits" section in my character profile sheets. Now I'm going to be stuck thinking about this all day, trying to work it through in my head.
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...just throw your ingredients in the pan and add what you like? If the result tastes good, that's what's important, right? Only you'll never make a soufflé that way.
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...Cooks follow recipes. Eventually you get to be a chef, and you understand the food so well you can adapt the recipe with skill to produce something exquisite and unique.
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...The [fundamentals] aren't meant to fence us in...they're a springboard.
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....and there I was, worried that I may not learn anything new for today when, Lo the wise Morgan came to my rescue. Nice tip. Many thanks.
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...The [fundamentals] aren't meant to fence us in...they're a springboard.
Exactly!
-- Now how do I get the 'creative' writers to believe this?
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...The [fundamentals] aren't meant to fence us in...they're a springboard.
Exactly!
-- Now how do I get the 'creative' writers to believe this?
I'm told water-boarding is an effective means of-- *looks around* What???
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We can talk until we're blue in the face. I guess the fundamentals reek of tyranny. They certainly improved my life!...sans water-board.
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I'm told water-boarding is an effective means of--
*looks around*
What???
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You know, that might make for an interesting story actually...
Come to think of it, I've read stories with whips, chains, cages...can't recall ever reading a good water-boarding story though...
Hmmm...
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Probably because water-boarding is a common form of torture, and almost drowning someone repeatedly for the sake of sexual satisfaction probably has a very limited audience appeal.
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Good boy.
Your static trait is always seeing how far you can push each and every site rule.
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I'm told water-boarding is an effective means of--
*looks around*
What???
You know, that might make for an interesting story actually...
Come to think of it, I've read stories with whips, chains, cages...can't recall ever reading a good water-boarding story though...
Hmmm...
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I actually have a scene of water-boarding in one of my upcoming books, but it is NOT part of a sex scene or anything of the sort. lol It's used as a method of serious torture. (And was rather skin-crawly to write, if I'm honest...)
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I actually have a scene of water-boarding in one of my upcoming books, but it is NOT part of a sex scene or anything of the sort. lol It's used as a method of serious torture. (And was rather skin-crawly to write, if I'm honest...)
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I actually have a scene of water-boarding in one of my upcoming books, but it is NOT part of a sex scene or anything of the sort. lol It's used as a method of serious torture. (And was rather skin-crawly to write, if I'm honest...)
I've done one torture session, but I didn't go into any real detail. I mostly stuck to what was going on in the victim's mind rather than go into gruesome detail as to what was happening physically.
I squick the readers enough with some of my borderline BDSM Sex scenes. I don't need to send them gibbering into corners too.
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But it was necessary for the story. It's an erotic suspense, so there's plenty of sex in the book...just not THAT scene. lol
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I have plenty of BDSM sex scenes, but not in this book. lol The water-boarding was detailed, written in first-POV from the victim's perspective, plus there's a chapter or two after that with him dealing with what amounts to PTSD from it. But it was necessary for the story. It's an erotic suspense, so there's plenty of sex in the book...just not THAT scene. lol
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...I understand why Lush has to have a zero tolerance policy though, it's all about the audience.
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I have plenty of BDSM sex scenes, but not in this book. lol The water-boarding was detailed, written in first-POV from the victim's perspective, plus there's a chapter or two after that with him dealing with what amounts to PTSD from it. But it was necessary for the story. It's an erotic suspense, so there's plenty of sex in the book...just not THAT scene. lol
Very sensible.
-- I've discovered that as long as you draw a solid line between what's supposed to be pleasurable and what's Not, you can cross some erotic romance publishers' 'no-go' lines. SOME...
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Very sensible.
-- I've discovered that as long as you draw a solid line between what's supposed to be pleasurable and what's Not, you can cross some erotic romance publishers' 'no-go' lines. SOME...
Indeed. My book Reconstructing Meredith goes into some detail about sexual abuse (more about the psychological effects than graphic descriptions of the abuse itself), and the character even has PTSD-related flashbacks during a sex scene, but it's kept VERY separate from what's supposed to be arousing. My editor is extremely "NO WAY" about as titillation, things like that, but she was all for this book because I stopped just short of writing in giant red letters THIS IS NOT AROUSING THIS IS BAD.
