Ha ha, I will never fall into the entwining tongues trap. I once very briefly mentioned Jayne's tongue in a kiss between him and Abbey and it still makes me uncomfortable to read it. I have no idea why, but I'm such a horrible prude when it comes to writing most things even remotely sexual or erotic (and apparently I count tongue kissing as erotic?). Reading is slightly better, but writing - nope.
Thanks for the advice though. I'll do a re-read of some of my favourite authors and see how they do it.
Honestly, kissing is one of those things that you can't make "new and exciting" every single time. Until they invent the Kama Sutra of kissing, I think you're fine :P hehe
Besides, you should be thinking of it this way: you're not writing the same kissing stuff every time but rather putting your characters into the exact same scene/scenario every time. Perhaps it is not the kissing dialogue that needs work?
And don't you dare get overly concerned about that and start fretting... That's how all romance stories work! Now get back to work :P hehe
Hmmm, I think you may be on to something with me putting them into the same situation over and over. I tend to write a lot of first kisses and dramatic kisses because kissing is one of my favourite things ever (to write about - and to actually do as well). Especially first kisses. So whenever I write kisses I always want them to be special or awesome in some way. But kissing IRL is not really that.
Oh well, I'll settle for not using the exact same phrases to describe seperate scenes in a single fic unless there's a plot or stylistic reason to do so.
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I gave myself a mental Gibbs-slap, then I went to work and simply wrote the kiss scene using some new tropes and phrases and words.
Like magic!
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Thanks for the advice though. I'll do a re-read of some of my favourite authors and see how they do it.
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Besides, you should be thinking of it this way: you're not writing the same kissing stuff every time but rather putting your characters into the exact same scene/scenario every time. Perhaps it is not the kissing dialogue that needs work?
And don't you dare get overly concerned about that and start fretting... That's how all romance stories work! Now get back to work :P hehe
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Oh well, I'll settle for not using the exact same phrases to describe seperate scenes in a single fic unless there's a plot or stylistic reason to do so.
Thanks for your input :)
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