Your most challenging scene (writerly)

[Varian P]

I'm in the midst of attempting to write a scene where a man makes love to a tree. Oh, sure, that's easy, you're thinking. But the thing is, it's not supposed to be funny, or even creepy. More like poignant. And, no, the tree doesn't make love back. The story is not set in the land of HR Puffenstuff or in that wacky LOTR forest.

So, what's the most challenging scene you've ever attempted to write?

 

[neonlyte]

Without a doubt 'Painting A Nude', it's in my sig. Quirky doesn't begin to describe it. 'Do You Dream Of Me?' comes close but doesn't actually include any sex.

 

[Vermilion]

I wrote an incest story as a challenge and boy - was it ever. Trying to get over my own 'things' about incest and also make the love-making believable and non-creepy...

 

[3113]

The story is not set in the land of HR Puffenstuff or in that wacky LOTR forest.

If it's H.R. Pufnstuf land, the tree might indeed make love back to the man (leave us remember that this was the show with a talking, falsetto-voiced flute that, er, loved to be played. "Yeah, Jimmy, blow me, just blow me..."). At the very least, an encounter with those wandering mushrooms will give the guy visions that the tree is making love back.

 

[impressive]

The gender-swap in Switch. Hands down.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

A mother-daughter incest scene that was sexy not creepy while also being halfway plausible, and did not require the characters to be psychological basketcases either. I used an imaginative plot device involving a third party to make it happen and it worked out quite well, if I do say so myself.

 

[jomar]

I hope it's a river birch. They're dead sexy.

 

[gauchecritic]

Making eating a breakfast with a gay guy and a Pakistani cross dressing girl stand in lieu of a sex scene in 'Abigail Slaughter'. That was hard work.

 

[rgraham666]

Having my vampire torture somebody.

A major drawback to bigger 'equipment' is more pain when manhandled.

 

[thebullet]

I had written a short two chapter story called Death by Fucking. Just a sexy little romance with each chapter telling the same story from the point of view of the two participants. I got a lot of feedback asking to continue the story, so I wrote another two chapters.

I used to think sex scenes with twins, especially when there was some question about which twin was which, were cool. I added a twin to the mix in Ch. 3 or 4, created a pretty cool scene and then ended the story again. Again readers asked me to continue the story, even though I had brought it to a conclusion (I thought).

For a long while I had had this SciFi plot running around in the back of my mind. Late at night amid the taste of colored waters and the smell of magic herbs I decided to take the little humorous romance I had written and expand it into this big-ass science fiction story. But I had written myself firmly into a corner with my original story, which had nothing at all to do with the new version I started to develop.

I had to extract my characters logically from the first 4 chapters and use what I had written to come up with a semi-logical explanation of how they fit into the new plot.

That was a challange. I gotta say, I made entire plot devices out of what I had already written, and I'm pretty sure that anyone who hadn't read the original ending of Chapter 4 (I reposted it later to eliminate the ending) would just assume that I hadt intended the story to go that way all along.

 

[cantdog]

Writing an intelligible group-sex scene without belaboring it. It's in Yacht Club but that story has issues. Still, the scene is clear enough to follow.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I have a simple blowjob scene that I cannot seem to get thorough. It's from the point of view of a spectator and there are lots of emotional undercurrents. Oddly enough-- for me-- the emotional stuff is being easier than the blowjob...

Why? WHYYYY?

 

[sr71plt]

I'm in the midst of attempting to write a scene where a man makes love to a tree. Oh, sure, that's easy, you're thinking. But the thing is, it's not supposed to be funny, or even creepy. More like poignant. And, no, the tree doesn't make love back. The story is not set in the land of HR Puffenstuff or in that wacky LOTR forest.

So, what's the most challenging scene you've ever attempted to write?

Oddly enough, the mirror image of yours--a tree making love to a woman (in "Home to Virile Oak")

 

[Weird Harold]

Writing an intelligible group-sex scene without belaboring it. It's in Yacht Club but that story has issues. Still, the scene is clear enough to follow.

Actually, I have problems with any multiple character scenes, expecially three, four, and more way conversations -- although adding sex to the scene and trying to keep multiple body parts straight does complicate things a bit more.

 

[Just-Legal]

My current scene. Its sortof flashback and sortof telepathy and its all over the place, I can write the introduction then *bam*. Brick wall.