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Old 11-03-2005, 02:46 PM   #1
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When is too much too much?

Okay, so I am working on my first Hard Boiled detective story. I am also working on another one for NANO.

My question is when it gets to the point where Mickey Camus Chandler (Ha I like that name) and Trinity are together, when is it too much before interest is lost in the story. I am talking about the intimate scenes with the two. I have looked at how spillane wrote his scenes, and they were very ambiguous (which I am going for).

Any thoughts, suggestions, concerns, verbal assualts?

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I find that there is a fine line between an intimate scene and a hardcore pornographic description. Stephen King seems to get away with it in most of his books, which i read with great interest during my growing pain years . But i think the greatest mistake is start naming objects of the body unless its in a seductive sense, but nothing below the belt. So like you could put 'she shamelessly exposed her pert breasts' or something like that but going beyond that, first off using the anatomically correct term for a lower body part is boring and if you use the 'slang' preference for it you again are venturing into the x rated shelves at chapters...Do they actually have those? I've never ventured that far into the store
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Old 11-03-2005, 05:20 PM   #3
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Give enough to stimulate the readers imagination, but no more. Too much becomes boring. Also, make sure it's needed to move the story, or to make sense of the story later. For instance, if the two are going to be a logger-heads later on to the detriment of the investigation (this is off the top of my head -- cliche) then the sexual tension between them might figure somehow in the story. Mind you, some readers expect the sex scenes and get annoyed if the door is slammed.
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Old 11-04-2005, 12:43 AM   #4
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What the hell is a logger-head
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