Ladies please, I could use some help here. I'm a published author whi is currently finishing the final editing on my second novel and my publisher is screaming for a novella which leans to the erotic and he wants it by July. My other two novels are mainstream fiction and my published short stories range from erotic to mainstream.
In brief, the story which is banging around in my cobwebbed head is of two people, a man and woman who are competors in business, both married but bored and most times alone. Both are older, late 40's and both are actually not very attractive and get both get thrown together.
Both get stranded in a snow storm in a small town after they both were bidding on the same job and both lost the bid. And there's no room at the inn except to share adjoining rooms with no door between till the weather lets up and they can fly home to different cities.
So bored and pissed they lost the contract and it was a wasted trip they begin to talk cause the cell phones are out of range and outside the weather is lousy. Over the course of the time they share not only the room but their secrets, hurts, disappoints,desires, and lives with one another and in the course of sharing they become lovers.
Lovers with no secrets, lovers who do things they've always dreamed of but never dared. After all when the weather stops and the planes fly they can go home to their miserable lives with their miserable spouse and family and can put out the light of their time of passion.
I plan to write it first person singular with alternating chapters between the only two characters and the scene is always in the motel room. Time frame is roughly three day and nights. Word count should be around 35000 to 45000, anything much longer would bounce it to novel and then I'm stuck working on a 80 to 120,000 word count.
So ladies any ideas? What would the woman think, what would you think and what would you tell if you were her? Would you cherish the thoughts and actions or forget them soon? Keerp souviners or wipe it from your mind. Would tell it all and do it all? I can do the man's persepctive, hell I'm a man. But I ain't a woman. No...and I'm not some freak looking to get off on erotic words and thoughts. This is work, it's my profession and career.
Any ideas, no matter how weird or carzy would be appreciated cause one idea always leads to another. Thanks ladies.....John
In brief, the story which is banging around in my cobwebbed head is of two people, a man and woman who are competors in business, both married but bored and most times alone. Both are older, late 40's and both are actually not very attractive and get both get thrown together.
Both get stranded in a snow storm in a small town after they both were bidding on the same job and both lost the bid. And there's no room at the inn except to share adjoining rooms with no door between till the weather lets up and they can fly home to different cities.
So bored and pissed they lost the contract and it was a wasted trip they begin to talk cause the cell phones are out of range and outside the weather is lousy. Over the course of the time they share not only the room but their secrets, hurts, disappoints,desires, and lives with one another and in the course of sharing they become lovers.
Lovers with no secrets, lovers who do things they've always dreamed of but never dared. After all when the weather stops and the planes fly they can go home to their miserable lives with their miserable spouse and family and can put out the light of their time of passion.
I plan to write it first person singular with alternating chapters between the only two characters and the scene is always in the motel room. Time frame is roughly three day and nights. Word count should be around 35000 to 45000, anything much longer would bounce it to novel and then I'm stuck working on a 80 to 120,000 word count.
So ladies any ideas? What would the woman think, what would you think and what would you tell if you were her? Would you cherish the thoughts and actions or forget them soon? Keerp souviners or wipe it from your mind. Would tell it all and do it all? I can do the man's persepctive, hell I'm a man. But I ain't a woman. No...and I'm not some freak looking to get off on erotic words and thoughts. This is work, it's my profession and career.
Any ideas, no matter how weird or carzy would be appreciated cause one idea always leads to another. Thanks ladies.....John
