IMportant Video to peruse

[Wifetheif]

We all struggle with repeating ourselves. This video by "Reads with Rachel" exposes how best-selling novelist Rebecca Yarros presents almost exactly the SAME sex scenes in ALL FOUR books of the Fourth Wing series. Some of us use formula but this is ridiculous. I try to mix things up in my sex scenes because I don't want to cheat my readers or myself. The video is a good reminder of why we should not let ourselves get into a rut. The sex scenes are also BORING. Here that gets us one-bombed, Yarros ends up on the best seller list!

 

[Rob_Royale]

And why would this be important?

 

[Wifetheif]

And why would this be important?

To remind ourselves to keep things fresh and not fal into the formula of sameness.

 

[StillStunned]

To remind ourselves to keep things fresh and not fal into the formula of sameness.

But like you said, apparently it doesn't stand in the way of becoming hugely successful.

 

[ronde]

I haven't read any of her work or yours, so I can't comment. What I find amusing with some of the stories here is that some writers believe they have to include every position and action of the sex act even remotely possible. The stories read like a porn movie, and porn movies are not real. If that's your thing, more power to you, but when you get down to what most people do in bed, it probably can seem boring to some. For most readers, the same sex scene will leave then thinking, "Yep, that could happen."

 

[onehitwanda]

Terry Pratchett's wisdom seems more apt here:

"He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato." - The Fifth Elephant

 

[PennameWombat]

We all struggle with repeating ourselves. This video by "Reads with Rachel" exposes how best-selling novelist Rebecca Yarros presents almost exactly the SAME sex scenes in ALL FOUR books of the Fourth Wing series. Some of us use formula but this is ridiculous. I try to mix things up in my sex scenes because I don't want to cheat my readers or myself. The video is a good reminder of why we should not let ourselves get into a rut. The sex scenes are also BORING. Here that gets us one-bombed, Yarros ends up on the best seller list!

I remember many of the impassioned screeds about how poorly written "50 Shades of Grey" was. Some of those were even here in AH.

All the while, the author was doing languorous backstrokes in various of her multiple swimming pools filled with cash. (Well, maybe not languorous backstrokes, maybe she preferred butterfly strokes. Or, just gazing over the swimming pools filled with cash.)

And while writing like that might get an occasional one bomb here, most of my stories get one bombs because ... they're posted. They don't need to be boring to get one-bombed here.

 

[onehitwanda]

maybe she preferred butterfly strokes.

Nobody prefers butterfly. Those who profess to love it are all clinically insane but simply haven't been diagnosed as such yet.

 

[StillStunned]

Nobody prefers butterfly. Those who profess to love it are all clinically insane but simply haven't been diagnosed as such yet.

Normally you'd be right. But it's probably the perfect stroke for a pool full of money, preferably accompanied by squeals of "Wheeeeee!"

 

[onehitwanda]

Normally you'd be right. But it's probably the perfect stroke for a pool full of money, preferably accompanied by squeals of "Wheeeeee!"

Backstroke is the only appropriate stroke here. Mainly so you can smugly smirk back at everyone who's watching you swim through your piles of cocaine-and-excrement-encrusted greenbacks.

 

[StillStunned]

Backstroke is the only appropriate stroke here. Mainly so you can smugly smirk back at everyone who's watching you swim through your piles of cocaine-and-excrement-encrusted greenbacks.

I'd probably get the greenbacks cleaned first. Preferably by publishers who rejected my manuscript and Lit authors who sneered at my repetitive sex scenes.

 

[Bazzle]

Disney recycled their content too

https://laughingsquid.com/disney-recycled-exact-same-movement-sequences/

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Nobody prefers butterfly. Those who profess to love it are all clinically insane but simply haven't been diagnosed as such yet.

I swam fly in college... But that might not surprise you to know about me.

 

[onehitwanda]

I swam fly in college... But that might not surprise you to know about me.

Always knew you were crackers

 

[SimonDoom]

I agree with Wanda, who puts it more eloquently than I will. I don't have a strong feeling about this. I like to mix things up and I hope that I'm stretching myself when I write, but for the most part what is being written here is what I'd call "genre fiction." There's a lot of repetition, because that's what people want. Also, it's possible to be repetitive but still be a competent writer.

I swam butterfly on a swim team when I was 12. Since then, not so much. The one thing I'll say about it is that if you can do it it's the stroke that makes you feel like a badass in the pool. It's not much use for triathlons, though.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I'm much more proficient in the breast stroke. It's simple, doesn't destroy rotator cuffs and it gets me there.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

In the first minute she says something very important, when we criticize a story, others who like the story assume that you are criticizing their tastes too. I get this often when I criticize music. People who like a song that I criticize often get quite upset.

 

[StillStunned]

I'm much more proficient in the breast stroke. It's simple, doesn't destroy rotator cuffs and it gets me there.

My wife says I'm quite proficient at breast stroking, although sometimes she prefers back stroking.

 

[SimonDoom]

My wife says I'm quite proficient at breast stroking, although sometimes she prefers back stroking.

I prefer freestyle, but, then, I'm divorced, so what the hell do I know.