The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 02: A Comma (is a Restful Pause)

[voluptuary_manque]

It's wonderful how fast we can heal these days compared to what it was like fifty years ago.

As to the weather? It snowed yesterday, last night and this morning. Fortunately, it has now all melted, a much more Portland event than last year when we got a foot of snow on three different occasions! This is annoying. That was brutal!

 

[_Lynn_]

Will the scar win the "Incision of the Year" award ?
Please take it steady, Madam.

Nah.

It's wonderful how fast we can heal these days compared to what it was like fifty years ago.

As to the weather? It snowed yesterday, last night and this morning. Fortunately, it has now all melted, a much more Portland event than last year when we got a foot of snow on three different occasions! This is annoying. That was brutal!

Yes, it is.

 

[NotWise]

I asked this question earlier, but I think it was eclipsed by the explosives model.

Is it just me, or is it a lot harder to write softcore sex than it is to write it out explicitly?

 

[MagicaPractica]

I asked this question earlier, but I think it was eclipsed by the explosives model.

Is it just me, or is it a lot harder to write softcore sex than it is to write it out explicitly?

I think so, at least it is for me. I find it much harder to come up with the euphamisms without them becoming corny. But perhaps if I read more of it, it would seem easier. It's just not my cup of tea.

 

[NotWise]

I think so, at least it is for me. I find it much harder to come up with the euphamisms without them becoming corny. But perhaps if I read more of it, it would seem easier. It's just not my cup of tea.

I'm trying to avoid the euphemisms. They all seem corny. Avoiding them brings me to the edge of softcore.

The challenge I have is to express the result without describing the act. It seems like I have to make the act so obvious that I don't have to detail it.

 

[sharingfantasies]

I'm trying to avoid the euphemisms. They all seem corny. Avoiding them brings me to the edge of softcore.

The challenge I have is to express the result without describing the act. It seems like I have to make the act so obvious that I don't have to detail it.

Couldn't you do something like the old movies? Have them kiss outside a door and then enter the room smiling, next scene they are in robes. I always thought a guy wearing his pants, top button undone and the female in his shirt was sexy. You know they had sex, but never saw any of it.

 

[Handley_Page]

Couldn't you do something like the old movies? Have them kiss outside a door and then enter the room smiling, next scene they are in robes. I always thought a guy wearing his pants, top button undone and the female in his shirt was sexy. You know they had sex, but never saw any of it.

A great many of those 'old movies' featured the female wearing pyjamas (done up to the neck) and only the most subtle smile on her face.

Can I please book a nice coffee for about 5 hours time ? I'm not permitted food or much more than water just at present.

 

[Hypoxia]

I'm trying to avoid the euphemisms. They all seem corny. Avoiding them brings me to the edge of softcore.

Embracing the euphemisms leads right over the edge into parody and farce. That's fun too!

The challenge I have is to express the result without describing the act. It seems like I have to make the act so obvious that I don't have to detail it.

I've generally not tried for levels of subtlety. LIT readers may be here for quality stories but they're definitely here for sex. I might throw in "they fucked again" to move the story along, but I assume readers eventually will want to be aroused. Thus the slobbering details. Ooh ooooohhhh...

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Good morning, all!

Lynn, glad to see your recovery continues.

 

[TxRad]

Morning all.

As I sat down at the keyboard this morning, I had one of those moments. Coffee cup in one hand, cigarette in the other. Ratty old bathrobe. I need a shave. I've turned into a caricature of an old writer.

In mainstream writing, the old fade to black still lives long and large. I keep pushing the envelop butt... It's an uphill fight.

Fresh coffee for one and all.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Better than a caricature of an immature one, sir.

 

[NotWise]

Couldn't you do something like the old movies? Have them kiss outside a door and then enter the room smiling, next scene they are in robes. I always thought a guy wearing his pants, top button undone and the female in his shirt was sexy. You know they had sex, but never saw any of it.

That's about what I did in "The Third Ring," and my current story would go to the same anthology. The idea is to be adult without being pornographic.

In the current story the woman interrogates the man during his post-coital relaxation, which happens several times. I can't completely close the door and walk away.

I'm with Ruben in that I think it's hard to be creative when doing explicit descriptions, and I try to minimize that. This is a different challenge, though.

 

[Handley_Page]

Good Evening, All,
Can I havea LARGE coffee (white, half-sugar), please ?
I'm now permitted to eat and drinkk.

 

[TxRad]

Good Evening, All,
Can I havea LARGE coffee (white, half-sugar), please ?
I'm now permitted to eat and drinkk.

One large coming up. Welcome back to the land of the living.

Rain, rain, and more rain today. the high was 70 at daylight. It is now in the low 50's. A good day to stay in and write.

 

[_Lynn_]

Good morning, all!

Lynn, glad to see your recovery continues.

Honestly, I'm doing much better than I imagined. That doesn't mean it's easy or without pain but I reached this point faster than I thought.

PT again tomorrow morning. Then I think I'm done.

 

[TxRad]

What happened to the day? Oh yeah, writing. Supper will now be breakfast. Maybe I'll roast a couple of plot bunnies for a snack. Would they be better with orange or red sauce?

Fresh coffee for the midnight bunch. A fresh kettle for those that can't hang with the coffee bunch.

Maybe after Chloe and crew get through shooting this place up in her upcoming novel about troll hunting, I'll rebuild the place as a Porn Writers, Bar and Grill. I sure ain't making any money off the coffee and hot water.

 

[_Lynn_]

What happened to the day? Oh yeah, writing. Supper will now be breakfast. Maybe I'll roast a couple of plot bunnies for a snack. Would they be better with orange or red sauce?

Fresh coffee for the midnight bunch. A fresh kettle for those that can't hang with the coffee bunch.

Maybe after Chloe and crew get through shooting this place up in her upcoming novel about troll hunting, I'll rebuild the place as a Porn Writers, Bar and Grill. I sure ain't making any money off the coffee and hot water.

Porn Writers? I guess that leaves me out.

 

[Handley_Page]

What happened to the day? Oh yeah, writing. Supper will now be breakfast. Maybe I'll roast a couple of plot bunnies for a snack. Would they be better with orange or red sauce?

Fresh coffee for the midnight bunch. A fresh kettle for those that can't hang with the coffee bunch.

Maybe after Chloe and crew get through shooting this place up in her upcoming novel about troll hunting, I'll rebuild the place as a Porn Writers, Bar and Grill. I sure ain't making any money off the coffee and hot water.

Perhaps you could call it "the Write Place" ?
(Head Office of the Porn Writers Guild ?)

Coffee & Breakfast awaits. . .

 

[Hypoxia]

Coffee time, rerun. Something to prep me for this 'interesting' day. (Old Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times.) Today's rather urgent run to a fill-in cardiologist in Sacratomato will take two hours each way and a couple hours there. In snow that just started. The forecast says we'll drive back through three inches of fluffy. Ay yi yi.

I'd rather talk about 'ukuleles. Maybe later. Now, another coffee. Where's that caffeine patch?

 

[Handley_Page]

Coffee time, rerun. Something to prep me for this 'interesting' day. (Old Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times.) Today's rather urgent run to a fill-in cardiologist in Sacratomato will take two hours each way and a couple hours there. In snow that just started. The forecast says we'll drive back through three inches of fluffy. Ay yi yi.

I'd rather talk about 'ukuleles. Maybe later. Now, another coffee. Where's that caffeine patch?

I do hope it went well.

Would a 'uke sound 'plinky' if it had steel strings ?
(All I can recall is the plink-a-plink sounds. . . .)

 

[MagicaPractica]

Don't mind me, just rummaging in the fridge for some ice cream.

 

[NotWise]

Don't mind me, just rummaging in the fridge for some ice cream.

I saw your isolated blurt. That sounds painful. I hope for a good, non-surgical solution.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I saw your isolated blurt. That sounds painful. I hope for a good, non-surgical solution.

Thanks. Tried cinnamon, didn't help. Doctors tomorrow.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Thanks. Tried cinnamon, didn't help. Doctors tomorrow.

All the best with that.

 

[Hypoxia]

I do hope it went well.

After today's urgent consult, I'm fast-tracked for a cardiac procedure with real surgeons and everything. That'll be a few weeks yet. I'll slog along till then,

Would a 'uke sound 'plinky' if it had steel strings ?
(All I can recall is the plink-a-plink sounds. . . .)

Generally, steel strings will break an 'uke because neck tension. Some will say that a dozen broken 'ukes make a good start. Feh. Anyway, Silk-n-Steel strings can be used for a more metallic sound. Soprano 'ukes will sound plinky with any strings; larger 'ukes, less so. But down-tuning reduces plinkiness, as does changing high 1st and 4th strings to low ones.

'Uke-like devices built for steel strings exist. I own a century-old tiple (TEE-play), basically a 10-steel-string tenor 'uke. In fact, it's the ancestor of the tenor. The tiple was popular with small jazz and blues groups pre-WWII because it is LOUD for its size! A tenor body really projects.
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A couple hours past sunset. Dark out, and snowy, a few inches on the ground, and we must motorvate down our dirt road in the morning, ay yi yi. I look into the night's void and try not to think of Shakespeare. That's easy.