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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.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

That sounds like good advice - the arg factor's probably compounded by the fact that seanchai doesn't find a lot of kissing scenes all that hot, and I read a lot of romance novels and therefore have tons of purple prose cliches lurking in my subconscious waiting to pounce.

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

*G* I grew up contently raiding my mother's romance novel closet as pre-teen and teen.

Kissing scenes are one of those YMMV things. I don't know if it's just that people that really like kissing love kissing scenes, or if it has nothing to do with it.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

Knowing the general levels of correlation between fictional kinks and RL kinks,I'd guess that people who really like kissing IRL may be predisposed to like kissing scenes, but that there are also plenty of people who don't like kissing in real life but find fictional kissing super hot. Or who love kissing IRL but would rather spork their eyes out than watch it on a movie screen.

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

We've been watching El Cid in my Muslim and Christian relations class, and the 'love' scenes had me dying with laughter. One of my guy friends in the class wondered if anyone actually thought Heston rubbing his face against Sofia Lorens hair was sexy other than the director.

To characters on tv or in the movies not kissing at times can be sexier. Owen and Gwen's not kiss in Countryside? Guh.