The Mystic Marriage: the challenge of chapter 19

[hrj]

The challenge of chapter 19 is to continue presenting romantic protagonist #1 as a sympathetic figure even while, having despaired (prematurely) of moving out of protagonist #2's "friend zone", she decides to have wild animal sex with the next willing warm body that presents herself because, hey, a woman has needs. This chapter includes the closest I've come to writing an explicit sex scene (hint: not very close). But do not despair -- eventually protagonist #2 has her chance at being a clueless idiot and nearly screwing everything up thereby. There must be balance.

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Re: Is the problem that..

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Actually, the random hookup is totally in character for her. She's carefully developed a reputation as a major flirt and (gossiped about somewhat more discreetly) a lighthearted womanizer. (Keep in mind that the setting is the early 19th century, so she has to maintain a certain amount of plausible deniability regarding relationships with women. It's a matter of "everybody knows, bot nobody knows".) It's being seriously and soberly in love that's out of character for her.

Personally, I'm far more of a "pining forever in lonely solitude" sort, so I have to work a bit to get into her head.

Re: Is the problem that..

[zujia.livejournal.com]

From one lonely pine to another, those forest trees don't know how good they've got it!