Help with an icky plot hole

[lovecraft68]

If it were my story I think I would make a joke of it. Have other people in the story keep handing her gum or mints, inject some humor into the story.

Or have her run into someone with a smoking fetish. The other person being a smoker is the obvious solution, but no fun to work with.

 

[PennLady]

If it were my story I think I would make a joke of it. Have other people in the story keep handing her gum or mints, inject some humor into the story.

Or have her run into someone with a smoking fetish. The other person being a smoker is the obvious solution, but no fun to work with.

Yeah, but I'm not sure how much of a point the smoking is, aside from being something the character does. If it's important to the story, then yes, find something to do with it. If it's just a part of the character, it may be not much more needs to be said.

 

[lovecraft68]

I don't see whet the big deal is aside of the public perception being negative as a whole about smoking. I can't stand the taste or smell of aniseed. Dose it mean i wouldn't kiss someone who chomped down a bag of licorice or drank ouzo, no of course not. Seems like a silly question to be causing so much debate.

Now if they were addicted to peanuts and the other person had a life threatening peanut allergy I could see the icky plot hole, but honestly this isn't one.

Bottom line if the woman is hot enough and "ready to go" she can smoke the damn thing while I'm fucking her for all I care. At least I can admit that.

 

[sr71plt]

Again, people who smoke also fuck. There's no reason to make a federal case of them doing the two things in a story (although doing them simultaneously might be seen as insulting by the partner--and sometime I do this in a story to make theatvery point. Usually with cigars, though.)

 

[SecondCircle]

Honestly, if you wrote the story as is, without explaining the smoke breath or anything else about her chain smoking, I would still read it and accept it into the realm of plausibility.

Smokers and nonsmokers have been fucking just fine in that real world thingy, so I'd have no fuss with it. Someone may make a fuss sure, but don't they always?

 

[SikFuk]

What if the guy is really torn over the smoking issue, but thinks he can get the lady to quit someday? It's pretty common for people to enter into a new relationship thinking they can change the other person. When she won't quit, he tells her his dad - a nonsmoker - made his living as a bartender and died of lung cancer.

Arguments ensue. Finally, she ends the relationship, which sends the guy into a deep depression. With nothing left to live for, he starts smoking. The taste, the smell, it's a way to recapture the good times he had with her. He hooks up with a few other women smokers, but they don't do it for him. Meanwhile, she has stopped smoking and is now an anti-smoking nazi.

They meet by chance on the street. Sparks fly, until she realizes he's smoking, and his latest floozy is with him, also smoking. (Plot twist borrowed from O Henry's "The Gift of the Magi.")

Did you say you were writing a short story, or a novel?