Not in the mood?

veinglory said:

Hell. I am stalled on my novella because it's time for the big sex scene and I feel 'blah'.

Every get out of the mood? Maybe I need to go and write something else for a while. I've burned out my smut neuron.

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Now you've done it! I am going to have this vision of a pink bunny with phallic ears marching around banging on a drum, while a narrator speaks of the "Smutergizer Bunny".

I feel like Oedipus just before he put out his own eyes.

Regards,
Scott

Maybe you got it from me. I've been feeling so BLAH about sex writing lately.

I'm taking a break and working on nonfiction. It's the only way I know how to recharge.

You're not alone.

I wonder if it's the whole Mercury in retrograde thing. Anyone know if that affects hormones too? I mean, I'm really not a believer in astrology, but I've gotta say there've been a lot of mechanical glitches recently, of the sort blamed on Mercury in retrograde, and they all started happening after I heard about Mercury going into retrograde. And writers who believe in that stuff are saying it also affects creativity, especially of the first-draft sort.

But, yeah, I so feel (or, in this case, don't feel) what you're going through. I've been thinking the same thing for quite a while, every time I think about writing a major sex scene, and just can't get into it.

At the moment, I'm doing second-draft edits, which doesn't require a whole heck of a lot of passion, just a bit of boring persistence. If you've got a project in that stage, maybe working on it would help get you past this phase.

And if it IS the effect of Mercury in Retrograde, that's supposed to end somewhere around the end of the month, so relief is in sight.

JD

What I did was just insert eager Point A into eager Slot B and watch the reactions of the characters. Also, I always made the gender character opposite my intended reader insatiable. Nice fantasy, an insatiable lover.

I'll go w/ the Mercury/retrograde theory. I'm not into astrology, but there has to be some explanation. I'm just not feeling *it*

Works for me.

The Mercury explanation, I mean, not anything else, like actually writing or cars or stuff.

Let's hope we all get huge bursts of inspiration the end of next week when Mercury gets the hell out of retrograde, wherever that is.

JD

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Still not in the mood...I'm working on other things, but I can't get into the erotica mood.

I think it is Mercury in retrograde. That explains it!

HAH! I didn't even notice that the first time. I just thought that's what you meant.

The heat is just killing the mood. At 9am it was close to 80f already. Was out by the splash pool at 6, and sitting in my chair watching the spawn, sweat was running down my back.

I did write a nice bit about wading in the ocean... but no sex.

Brainstorming lately. Maybe Mercury is moving out of retrograde?

Let's hope.

I've had the same problem, and I too think it's the heat and the retrograde. I'm feeling better (and writing hotter) today, so I can only assume that was it.

In response to the question, I usually do the scene anyway. Sometimes it comes to life as I write it, other times I need to go back and revise, but I've never just written "insert hot scene here" and went on. Though I've been tempted to.

I'm back from the RWA conference and was hoping to hear y'all had found some moods, now that Mercury is out of retrograde (as of Saturday, IIRC).

My brain is too fried right now to even recognize a mood or act on the right one, but I'm feeling inspired to settle down to work tomorrow, aiming to get some manuscripts done and onto someone else's desk, mood or no mood.

JD

I don't know if it has anything to do w/ the Mercury/retrograde or not, but I think I'm getting back in the flow. I have ideas for a new short and potential novella. Back to the grind...

Close to finishing the first draft on my m/m/m dolphin shapeshifter story...

Managed to write two of Nate and Ceasar and chug through some more on non sex parts too... so maybe the planets are alinging better.