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[elspethdixon]

Kissing scenes are maddeningly hard to write (how many ways are there to say "then A stuck his tongue in B's mouth" without sounding cliched or stupid?). I don't know how people who regularly write pwps do it without repeating themselves all over the place.

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[kijikun.livejournal.com]

By frowning at our word documents and rewritten things a lot. You have to watch yourself and make sure that the kiss matches the mood of the fic. Sometimes you just have to go with what you personally find hot to read even if it is cliched.

There are times though where I just throw my hands up and write 'they kissed passionately/angrily/etc' when I need two characters to kiss again and I'm out of ways to make the kiss interesting. I tend though to try and use things like 'sucked on his/her tongue', 'bit their bottom lip', 'brushed his/her lips against person b's'. If its angry sex I try to mention teeth either scrapping lips or knocking into each other.

[northstar-rocks.livejournal.com]

It's why i can't write stuff like that. Sorry, I have nothing constructive to say. Wait maybe i do: Do not use the "..It was all he could do..." without telling us what It is.
I have issues with that phrase.
Um thats all. Sorry

[jynx.livejournal.com]

Heh, I use a porn thesaurus for a lot of stuff when I feel like being clever. Otherwise it's just putting them in different phrases. But yeah, like Kijikun said, it's more like just glaring and growling at it until it behaves. I can't read my own porn fics and be entertained because all I remember is the frustration. >>

Other than that, I have an unhealthy collection of bodice ripping, erotica books that entertain me and give me ideas on how to order my sentences.

[crimsonquills.livejournal.com]

I figure I end up repeating myself a fair bit. *wry* I also do what kiji said, with the adverbs and the phrases describing bits of the kiss. I also use variations on "their mouths/lips pressed together" to break things up when I've used the word "kiss" seven times in a row. :-)

But yeah, kissing scenes are definitely the hardest type of scene to write.

This, ZOMG this.

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

I've only done like, three R rated pieces with relatively strong erotic content, and by the third I was like, too through. "Ugh, I said this already. I can understand why people default to purple prose."

I'll be like, swimming out of the deep end and back into the shallow end of snark and the odd level look.