Sylosis

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In my own work, I tend to focus much more on characters, relationships, circumstances (i.e. plot), and setting the scene, building up the tension that makes sex inevitable.

As I am sure you know, I am like this, too. Sometimes to the point where I have story ideas that start as Lush ideas but end up over on StoriesSpace. In the end, I am a storyteller and sex is part of the story in erotic writing.

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What do you do to keep the sex you're writing about interesting to read without falling back on tired (and often unrealistic) tropes and 'dirty talk' cliches?

Try to use my imagination. My own sexual history is so vanilla, you could use it as flavouring for a cake. But I've read and watched a lot and can draw on that. And I know that you can spice up a vanilla scene a lot by not just focusing on the sex but on the characters actions, reactions, feelings, and so on. It is why I sometimes end up with 500 words of sex in a 2000 word story. I just try to make those 500 words count both as a hot sex scene and in the context of the story.

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I took a break for a few months ago.

I'm kind of on one now. Haven't written a single sex scene this year. Haven't finished any stories this year either.

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Yes, it's shorts and a T-shirt weather today, although probably for just the one day, but it was nice to feel as if Spring is finally here.

God, I just wish. Sunny but -3C here. Warming as the week goes on but still not getting to shorts and t-shirt levels. Maybe 13C by the weekend.

I am stymied. Every story I have going is stalling somewhere. I almost dumped all my in progress stuff (SHIFT-DEL) and started over. It's sometimes worked in the past. I think I am overthinking some of these stories and could get things moving if I simplified some things. I want to get out of this rut before my cruise. 8 sea days and I would like to pack a laptop along and do some writing if I can.

Wolfen

Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas

Pagan's Mind

Oops. Looks like the two above me cross-posted. Fortunately, I can give one answer that covers both: No. 😋

HYE won big in a casino?

Since Ls63563 didn't provide a new question, I'll take the one above her.

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How would you feel about living next door to your partner’s ex?

Probably uncomfortable. What I have heard sounds like it was not a happy situation, pretty much a marriage of convenience (I am my wife's second husband).

What do you take in your coffee/tea?

Mammoth

NHIE ridden a motorcycle at all or plan to (a friend is still dealing with repercussions from a crash decades ago)

All Along the Watchtower - Bob Dylan/Jimi Hendrix

Tank Girl

I have not. I am an agnostic skeptic but with an interest in spiritual and religious matters so would at least find it interesting.

HYE eaten food off of a partner's nude body?

Quigley Down Under

Yakety-Yak - The Coasters

Killswitch Engage

Third nipple seems like it would be less problematic for me. I have issues with my feet as it is.

Fly direct non-stop or take a stop if it is cheaper?

Tour of Greece. 8 days on land, then 4 days cruising the Aegean. Plus a day or two in Athens.

Read news in a newspaper/website or watch news on TV/streaming?

Hmm. Physical pain is usually easier to remedy, even if just by resting (my headaches may be an exception to that). Emotional pain is a lot more work to deal with. So emotional.

Are you eagerly waiting for Spring (or Fall if you're below the equator)?

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buying gear from MEC for those in Canada who may know the store.

My son used to buy biking gear there and I think I bought some stuff, too. That would have been pre-pandemic, though, before he moved away.

Um, that may or may not have happened at some point in the last couple decades. 🙄

(okay, fine, it did)

HYE won a local, regional, or other championship with a sports team you played on?

Having sex. Seriously, that was my fantasy through my teens and into my twenties. Came true at 24.

And once I began to accept and acknowledge my bi side and my fantasies about cocks, I did experiment with men a couple times but it was not great. Circumstances just did not lend themselves to a good time. So gay sex remains a fantasy.

White Room - Cream

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Brian Lumley

Oo, I don't meet too many Lumley fans outside of s-f/f heavy sites. He did some amazing horror and dark fantasy but also laid a few bad eggs. He also had a bad habit of flogging dead horses (i.e. some of his series went a few books too long). On the whole, though, a very good author who is sadly little known outside a niche literary community. His short story "Fruiting Bodies" will haunt me forever, if nothing else. And the Wamphyri started as an amazing revisionist take on vampires but see the line about dead horses. Another one I enjoyed was his Dreamlands series about Hero and Eldin, even if the feel was more Fritz Lieber than H. P. Lovecraft.

(/fanboi rant off)

We are actually leaving on a cruise on Easter weekend but that's a two week thing that just happens to start on a long weekend, not a "long weekend away". Though I guess you could consider it a 14 day long weekend. 😋

Are you looking forward to the FIFA World Cup?

Brunette. I tend to prefer darker hair for some reason. Though I do have one current crush who is a blonde.

Long or short hair?

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Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama.

Supposedly the project is in development with Denis Villeneuve set to direct.

I would love to see this TOO but it has a fundamental flaw for a movie. Not much real plot or character development. There will be manufactured drama by the screenwriter or elements brought in from the sequels. But the visuals would be absolutely awesome with a good artist in charge.

Also, this is not the first time (at one point David Fincher and Morgan Freeman were attached to a Rama project) and Villeneuve has a very full calendar that includes shooting the new Bond this fall (IIRC). So I want this movie but I will believe it when I see the first trailer.

As for movies I would like to see? William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land. It would need heavy editing and revisions (notably it is an Edwardian era novel with an attitude to women that is of its time) but the basic story of a quest to save a beloved through the dark deserts of a dying world could make for a great film in the right hands.

Whatever is earworming me at the time. Some songs do that more than others, usually ones where I actually know at least some of the words. "Elan" by Nightwish is a perpetual favourite.

Would you go on a talent showcase like your country's version of "Got Talent" or "The Voice"?

Nope. Most of the restaurants I know that would do that also have the staff sing to you and my introverted soul would die at that kind of attention.

HYE returned to your family home after living elsewhere for college or work?

Gojira