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Originally Posted by Keryl Raist
But, I'm thinking it's probably something to do with sex scenes. After all, how many of us can think of wince inducing euphemisms in a fight scene? Brandon kicked Jack squarely in the manhood. Ummm... no. Or how about a fight scene where the tension builds and builds and then the author suddenly decides to get coy about what is actually happening? I don't think so.
There really is a special level of bad writing reserved for sex scenes.
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Maybe it's related to that stigma SLJ talked about? That an author gets so tense and so worried about offending that they unintentionally make it harder than it has to be, and in teh process become a bad writer for just that one scene.
Or maybe editors and publishers have unreasonable demands and make it more difficult than it needs to be?