SpikeTheLobsterLove, Sex and Romance
January 25th 2009 21:41
Hard to handle.
Virtually any writer you speak to will say that there's at least one subject with which they struggle. Some can't do romance, others can't handle clever chit-chat. Some avoid humour, while others have difficulty with descriptive text. Me? I have my biggest trouble with sex and romance. In creative writing, I mean.
Battles, I can handle. Combat, conversations, humour, descriptions, travel, fantasy and science fiction, different time periods and even, on occasion, some poetic prose - all of these I can deal with. But romance and sweaty, between the sheets stuff is where I get stuck. It always comes out sounding like something a ten year-old would write or, even worse, like something off a daytime soap - contrived and pathetic.
But then I figure that there are plenty of books and films without a love interest that are perfectly good, so it's not as if I have to be the next Danielle Steel or Jilly Cooper to get published eventually. I just avoid those situations as best I can and stick to what I know. It often leaves me feeling as though I've missed an opportunity to widen the scope of a story, though.
So how about you? Do you work around the things you don't write very well, or do you bite the bullet and try to do it anyway? Inquisitive minds want to know.
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