Getting your mileage

Rob_Royale

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My wife and I have been binging our way through the Big Bang Theory on HBO/Max (don't judge😁) and it occurs to me just how much milage they got out of the same gags. 12 seasons!

Sheldons blatant narcissism that no one calls him on (I'd have murdered the bastard and laughed all the way to prison), the latent homosexuality between Raj and Howard. The socially/romantically inept nerd who says/does the wrong thing and has to make it up to his hot girlfriend/wife.

A lot of miles.

What scenarios have you gotten the most miles from in your stories?

For me it is the beautiful older gal who is lonely after being mistreated/neglected and finds fulfillment and amazing sex in the arms of a young man. Whom, after a little coaching, becomes a sexual tyrannosaurus.
 
I was pushing the Cougar angle pretty hard.

Also, public display. Mostly her, but sometimes him.

One even went into a form of directed sex. Complete strangers were told what to do for all to watch. Had a lot more ideas in that area that never made it out of the twisted mind.
 
Hot tub sex. WIP (and likely last chapter of a long series) has the numerous characters moving into a mansion with three hot tubs.

EDIT: And the MMC's freshly-formed corporation is "Hidromasaje Holdings", hidromasaje being Mexican Spanish for "hot tub".
 
My wife and I have been binging our way through the Big Bang Theory
BBT fell into the same trap all too many shows do.

After about the third season most of what could be done had been done. The originality was gone. From there on, they just dug for stuff to stretch the gags out.

The roommate agreement got old after just a few episodes.
 
Conversations over food and drink, especially alcohol. It's in almost all of my published full-length stories; I think only What's Left of Me Ch 1 and Ch 4 don't have some sort of eating or drinking scene where an important conversation happens. In Plugged In and WLoM Ch 2, alcohol is the social lubricant for the initiation of sex, and in April's Fool it's the lead-in to the two characters doing something new. It's almost become a crutch for me.
 
Conversations over food and drink, especially alcohol. It's in almost all of my published full-length stories ...
OK, thanks, you reminded me. Lots of my characters drink coffee during the story. Partly (only partly) that's because most of my stories are sequels or ramifications of my first story here, "Coffee with Blushes", which is centered on two friends (each main characters in other stories) drinking coffee prepared for them by a barista who is also a main character in multiple stories.

I think the "Wager" subseries is coffee-free, but that's pretty much it.

--Annie
 
Conversations over food and drink, especially alcohol. It's in almost all of my published full-length stories; I think only What's Left of Me Ch 1 and Ch 4 don't have some sort of eating or drinking scene where an important conversation happens. In Plugged In and WLoM Ch 2, alcohol is the social lubricant for the initiation of sex, and in April's Fool it's the lead-in to the two characters doing something new. It's almost become a crutch for me.
Weirdly, I struggle to write alcohol into my scenes. Or, I struggle to make it matter to the dialogue, and my stories are very dialogue-heavy. I'll often hit a wall on how to move the story forward, and alcohol would really do a lot of work to move things along, but I can't really go there because it feels wrong. I have tons of conversations over meals, though.
 
Weirdly, I struggle to write alcohol into my scenes. Or, I struggle to make it matter to the dialogue, and my stories are very dialogue-heavy. I'll often hit a wall on how to move the story forward, and alcohol would really do a lot of work to move things along, but I can't really go there because it feels wrong. I have tons of conversations over meals, though.
I've had, a couple times now, situations where the FMC and MMC are drinking something (usually wine or whiskey) and the FMC chooses to drink out of the MMC's glass under some flimsy pretext -- oh, it's closer, I can't reach mine -- as an indicator that she is open to some sort of physical intimacy, or she'll just take the MMC's drink completely and chug it to say yep, talking stage over now, bedroom time. It's an easy way for me in my writing to signal consent to move to the next stage of intimacy.
 
Dancing. They dance. She was a former pro-competition ballroom dancer. She had the body of a dancer.

Me?

I hate dancing and can't move a step without stumbling.
 
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