anonymousantonym:

rosemoonweaver:

@anonymousantonym replied to your post “As much as I dislike writing smut you’d think I’d stop doing it so…”

Heh heh. Hard.
Because, let’s face it, no matter what camp you sit in, sexy stuff is awkward, weird, sticky, hilarious and kinda gross when you really think about it objectively. Working out how to make who puts what where, how when and why actually sound, not just sexy, but serious is “hard.” Especially when you often don’t have a lot of dialogue like in a regular scene.

Heh. I’m so glad someone went for the joke. 

No but seriously, it’s a pain! I remember one author saying that writing sex scenes are like writing fights scenes and honestly they’re both difficult for many of the same reasons. You can’t just be all “X puts Y there and then Z does A” on and on without making it boring as shit but you also gotta let everyone know *where* the characters are in position to one another. And once you add more than two people it really becomes a mess. It’s this balance of movement, feeling, sound, thoughts, and tension that all need to hit just right or else it doesn’t work.

Yeah. It’s hard. 

Exactly. I struggle with it too. Sometimes I almost bullet point the basic actions: “x puts y there ” for the entire scene. Dry and boring as fuck. But then I go back through and add dialogue, thoughts feelings and movements. I might do it a number of times until it works.

It is difficult, but as another person said, it’s a draw for readers.

I’ve made the decision to leave the smut out of my current fic entirely…(There will be timestamps!)

Yeah, going back and editing really does help because sometimes you just can’t help writing in bullet points, especially when you’re writing a first draft.

I’ve left smut out of fics before just because I really didn’t feel like writing it and didn’t feel it fit. And I didn’t even bother to write timestamps. It sucks that it’s a draw for readers but I’m okay with losing out on some of them because I don’t feel like writing it.