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Spent most of my free time this morning giving Spike and Xander a good time in chapter 6. Is it perverse of me to get turned on as I'm writing it? Literary masturbation? Or is a sex scene that leaves the author cold going to do the same to the reader? I don't know. I started to get worried that I was just pasting my fantasies onto them though; have to stay in character...
I'm also trying to explain why poor Xander is jumping through hoops (not literally!)without clogging up the story with too much explanation. You should be able to convey it with just a few phrases I suppose but it isn't easy. Too much and you insult and bore the reader, too little and they're trying to follow you across the river with half of the stepping stones submerged.
But it's been a fun morning with laundry, tidying, jigsaw puzzles and dishes interspersed with Spike dealing with an outwardly submissive, inwardly raging Xander and reducing him to a tearful, quivering...I better stop now ;-)
I'm also trying to explain why poor Xander is jumping through hoops (not literally!)without clogging up the story with too much explanation. You should be able to convey it with just a few phrases I suppose but it isn't easy. Too much and you insult and bore the reader, too little and they're trying to follow you across the river with half of the stepping stones submerged.
But it's been a fun morning with laundry, tidying, jigsaw puzzles and dishes interspersed with Spike dealing with an outwardly submissive, inwardly raging Xander and reducing him to a tearful, quivering...I better stop now ;-)