Gauging interest for writers challenge

[Rob_Royale]

Writers Challenge? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

Sex scenes in films that we DIDN'T see.

Okay, your favorite film - the two main characters are making eyes at one another, there are some suggestive lines of dialog, the couple kisses passionately, and then the scene changes, and we are left to assume the characters are doing the horizontal mambo off-screen.

I'm thinking about celebrity/fan fiction short stories, just on those sex scenes we didn't see. For instance, in Smokey and the Bandit, there's a scene when we are led to believe the Bandit and Frog (Sally Fields' character) are getting it on in the woods, during a few moments of downtime. I think it would be fun as hell, to create that sex scene. As mild or wild as you could want. Please chime in, if this is something you'd be interested in doing.

 

[SimonDoom]

A few ideas:

Han Solo and Leia after rescuing her in her bikini from Jabba. I mean, they HAD to do it, right? Wouldn't it have been a better movie?

Aragorn and Eowyn. Arwen was a thousand miles away in Rivendell, and Eowyn was, to put it mildly, available. He hasn't had sex . . . ever? . . . and he's about to ride the paths of the dead and she's throwing herself at him. He's thinking, shit, this might be my last day on Middle-earth, and here's an empty tent. No one will know. It's good to be king.

Spock and Uhura in the Star Trek reboot. I thought making them lovers was clever and sexy, but not sufficiently realized. And Zoe Saldana in that ridiculous minidress uniform . . .. Oh boy. "Lieutenant, let me introduce you to an ancient Vulcan ritual . . .."

 

[onehitwanda]

Aragorn and Eowyn. Arwen was a thousand miles away in Rivendell, and Eowyn was, to put it mildly, available. He hasn't had sex . . . ever? . . . and he's about to ride the paths of the dead and she's throwing herself at him. He's thinking, shit, this might be my last day on Middle-earth, and here's an empty tent. No one will know. It's good to be king.

Don't you dare defile Eowyn like this.

She was totally playing hide the helmet with Gimli.

 

[SimonDoom]

Don't you dare defile Eowyn like this.

She was totally playing hide the helmet with Gimli.

Oh, come on. She was a desperately randy horse-maiden, champing at the bit. She gladly would have submitted to a four-way with Gimli, Legolas, and Aragorn if asked.

 

[onehitwanda]

Oh, come on. She was a desperately randy horse-maiden, champing at the bit. She gladly would have submitted to a four-way with Gimli, Legolas, and Aragorn if asked.

Maybe a sneaky bit of wincest on the side with Eomer's eyebrows?

All joking aside, she is one of my favourite characters. And Tolkien's description of her has always haunted me.

Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked on the king with cool pity in her eyes. Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.

I felt an enormous amount of pity for her and Faramir and was glad he shipped them.

 

[nice90sguy]

I find the slow pan to a logfire much more sexy than watching two people fucking.

 

[SimonDoom]

Maybe a sneaky bit of wincest on the side with Eomer's eyebrows?

All joking aside, she is one of my favourite characters. And Tolkien's description of her has always haunted me.

Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked on the king with cool pity in her eyes. Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.

I felt an enormous amount of pity for her and Faramir and was glad he shipped them.

Agreed. She was one of the best characters in the trilogy, and the ONLY real female character. It would be interesting to rewrite the story from her perspective.

 

[oggbashan]

Theree are already too many Authors' contests for me to enter. I am having difficulty keeping up with the themed contests to enter anything else.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I find the slow pan to a logfire much more sexy than watching two people fucking.

This reminds me of what a female character says in a story I have never published. (It's supposed to be part of a series eventually.) Regarding video porn: "Watching other people have sex is not endlessly interesting." She also says, "If you've seen one blowjob, you've seen them all." Yes, she is being a bit tongue-in-cheek. Note that she doesn't think that sex itself is not interesting.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Theree are already too many Authors' contests for me to enter. I am having difficulty keeping up with the themed contests to enter anything else.

I don't attempt to enter every contest. Sometimes I have an inspiration, sometimes not.

 

[Djmac1031]

Han Solo and Leia after rescuing her in her bikini from Jabba. I mean, they HAD to do it, right? Wouldn't it have been a better movie?

And then of course, there's Luke and Leia. The ultimate incest story waiting to happen.

"Oh, Luke, shoot your proton torpedo down my thermal exhaust port!"

*Obi-Wan watching from beyond* "Use the Force, Luke!"

 

[Lifestyle66]

There's also the scene where Darth Vader goes into the cell to interrogate Princess Leia.

"Who's your daddy?"

 

[Euphony]

And then of course, there's Luke and Leia. The ultimate incest story waiting to happen.

"Oh, Luke, shoot your proton torpedo down my thermal exhaust port!"

*Obi-Wan watching from beyond* "Use the Force, Luke!"

Don't forget humiliation kink: "Aren't you a little small for a storm trooper?"

 

[oggbashan]

As far as I am concerned very short (750) word stories score badly, much worse thatn my 15 x 50 word stories. So I'm not going tattempt 750 word stories any more.

 

[Rob_Royale]

As far as I am concerned very short (750) word stories score badly, much worse thatn my 15 x 50 word stories. So I'm not going tattempt 750 word stories any more.

I called them short stories only because most likely the only be as long as one sex scene with background betting applied by the films. They could be as long as you could want.

 

[Voboy]

All joking aside, she is one of my favourite characters. And Tolkien's description of her has always haunted me.

I've LONG thought her challenge to the Lord of the Nazgul is the best piece of dialogue in the whole tale. Predictably, the movie gave that line short shrift.

OP, I like the idea. But I worry about "Event Fatigue," honestly. I also am not sure about what would be lost in translating visual media to written: as an example, we know Indy and Marion fucked on the Bantu Wind. We know that because the filmmaker did a good job telling us without showing us. I think that kind of directing and editing is the right way to tell that story; I don't think a Lit version would improve it at all. On the contrary, in fact.

 

[onehitwanda]

Predictably, the movie gave that line short shrift.

The movie is guilty of many sins. Foremost among them is Faramir taking Frodo to Osgiliath. I shouted and threw pillows at the telly.

 

[Voboy]

The movie is guilty of many sins. Foremost among them is Faramir taking Frodo to Osgiliath. I shouted and threw pillows at the telly.

Yes. That's tied for the worst. The Elves showing up at Helm's Deep is the same kind of sin.

Everything else, I can overlook.

 

[TheRedChamber]

I don't think this is a bad idea, but I probably wouldn't write for it.

 

[EmilyMiller]

“To be alive at all is to have scars.”

 

[Rustyoznail]

It's an interesting idea. I'm thinking Keanu and Sandra in a Speed 2 that makes sense.

I agree the calendar is getting full of contests and challenges, but I don't plan on entering everything. Some themes I have no idea what to write. Other times a plot bunny will pop out and bite my ankle...

 

[gunhilltrain]

It's an interesting idea. I'm thinking Keanu and Sandra in a Speed 2 that makes sense.

I agree the calendar is getting full of contests and challenges, but I don't plan on entering everything. Some themes I have no idea what to write. Other times a plot bunny will pop out and bite my ankle...

I hope you meant Speed 1. To be fair, I'm mostly going on the reviews of #2.

 

[Rustyoznail]

No, my version of what Speed 2 should have been. I can see why Keanu bailed. It's a dumb movie.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I think that kind of directing and editing is the right way to tell that story; I don't think a Lit version would improve it at all. On the contrary, in fact.

I'm starting to agree with you. I've done a lot of thinking on this, and I think most writers, myself included, wouldn't be interested in writing something where the only thing they can contribute is a sex scene. I'm definitely leaning away from this idea.

 

[SimonDoom]

So, there's plenty of volunteers to bring up fun ideas, but are there also people willing to work those out and write them up?

I think 'celebrity/fan fiction' isn't a very popular category, and then the suggestion of writing short stories... Meh...

There was a time when I considered writing a story in each and every category on Lit, and even then, this was the dreaded one. I've never ever felt the urge to write a story that would fit in here. Sure, crazier things have happened, but I've rarely felt good about stories that I'd been forcing.

I wrote one fan fiction story, in the LOTR universe (One Night In Mordor). It was fun and I was glad I did it, but I have no plans to do another one. The view totals are extremely low by the standards of other categories. Also, while it was fun as a novelty, I prefer to create my own characters and the universe they are in.

So while this is a fun idea to think about, I doubt I'd actually participate.