kate rothwell

It's easy to find remarks about the writing of sex, people saying they find any mention of sex boring, offensive, it squicks them out, makes them feel like they're intruding in private matters--all standard complaints. I understood their point, thought I couldn't really empathize until I started following the work of a good writer. She's funny and smart, but I decided to stop reading because she harped on a topic I thought really wasn't particularly my business or that I found interesting. I'd read a passage and think: Why on earth do I want to know something so entirely private? Or, why do you think I should care about the details? Or, close the damn door! Or, yeah, yeah, get onto the next part. Get back to the other stuff. Or, sure, it's really that great for you? That ecstatic every time you do this? Surely that's an exaggeration? Or, don't you have a more interesting way to Express Love? Or, you sure are self-righteous about this. Get over yourse...

work supplies: box o' unused Kleenex -- yes bag for nasty used Kleenex-- yes advil --yes lukewarm cup of coffee and lukewarm bottle of water-- yes work clothes: battered old Kid's View teeshirt with boy1's sweats and boy2's school spirit sweatshirt-- yes clove of peeled garlic jammed in left ear-- yes okay, time to write some romantic smut. Maybe later I'll write about some of the books I read this weekend but I doubt it. Glass houses and all. But I'm grouchy enough to say enough with the meat sandwiches. If the plot doesn't call for two guys to be all over the heroine, then don't. Just don't. No more throwing things in just to reach that E or X rating at Ellora's. Make It Integral To The Story and Characters. Fine, all right, if you must put in the wandering-from-the-point sex, then let us know in the warning. ( warning: Hot Smutty Sex also HSS occasionally unrelated to actual character development and story line) I admit I need a checklist to ...