Still better than "She had long blonde hair, 38DD tits, and lips that looked like she could suck chrome off a bumper" or "He had twelve-inch cock and that's pretty much all you need to know".
That’s not generally what I write. I have done some stories with the characters not described at all but I usually give a few details. Usually, though, every reader is going to still imagine them a bit differently. And I still write the stories when inspiration hits. I’m not coping out, I just don’t feel the need to describe every character down to their pores. Too much detail can upset readers as easily as too little.
Not all my characters are celebrities or based on real people. Even with those based on real people, I still have to deal with things like clothing, hairstyles, and other things people often change. And I’m sure that even the most detailed picture of a character I could describe would be different in every reader’s mind. Let those who enjoy my stories fill in the gaps as they may. Let those who do not enjoy disassociate themselves gladly.
I notice something in even the best writers, those who really flesh out their stories with interesting details and specificity: When they get to the sex scenes it becomes generic. Sometimes I ask myself: "Has this person actually ever enjoyed making love with another person? Have they ever fantasized in detail about a kind of sex they haven't had?" So my pitch, to myself as well as other writers, is to keep it personal and specific when you get to the sex scene. Let's see the doubts, the nervousness, the true admiration of a specific body. Have her describe his 'treasure trail'. What does his forefinger and thumb feel like on her thigh? His breath on her neck? What stuns him about her laugh as he tickles her foot? What do they enjoy about the hayloft, the forest floor, the rubber raft where they are trying, perhaps unsuccessfully to make love? Maybe the general rule should be: When you get to the sex take your damn time and enjoy it. Real sex too often is over in a few minutes. Stories can stretch it out delectably.
I don't find it hard.
I'm on the cusp of releasing a Valentine’s day story told through a wife's POV. It will turn up in Loving Wifes, but I'm going to try my damndest to add real meat to the bones regarding the female lead's character. I have tried this once before, and was pleased to see their were some women that passed positive comment. Let's see how this one fares.
Okay, but does it really have to go into LW? I have said that they are all bark and no bite over there (for the most part) but it's a matter if you want the kind of attention you'll get over there. If you want readers to concentrate on the narrator, then Erotic Couplings may be a better place for it.
In Full Metal Jacket, the phrase used by Eight-Ball (he's describing a Vietnamese prostitute) is "suck the chrome off a trailer-hitch." I always thought they were stainless steel, but I've never owned a vehicle with one.
I thought that the "caliber" of all ammunition, whether bullets or cannon shells, is always the diameter. I think technically it's actually the "bore" (width) of the gun barrel, which is pretty close to that of the ammo fired through it.
You’re not wrong, but nobody was saying that a 155mm shell was measured circumferentially as opposed to diametrically.
True, but @Bramblethorn did seem to ask the previous poster if the meant the circumferential measurement.
There seems to be no shortage of writers willing to go into LW; I've been there twice myself. The site defines it, perhaps a bit vaguely, as "Married extra-marital fun: swinging, sharing & more." That sounds like "Loving Spouses," but no one uses it that way. I suppose it doesn't have to be a legally married couple, and there must be such stories in that that category.
