Sex scene blues.

Really, I am the Queen of Clue. Guess what I just found out, gnawing away slooowly at my H:tLJ story?

Writing sex scenes is hard. Writing anything else is tough, too, but sex scenes - man.

For one, the guys don't want to get going. Because they're busy fighting, or in a hurry, or one of them's hurting, or they're separated or just not in the mood or...

For another, I have typed and then deleted phrases like 'his molten gaze' and 'displayed himself wantonly' because while I love reading stuff like this when it's done well, I can't write it without embarrassing myself. Another discovery: writing sex scenes is harder (and stop with the giggling already) when you take away the purple prose.

And even then I'm afraid it will turn cheesy, or silly, or out of character, or with so many hands and body parts involved that it's like an orgy of acrobats.

Anyway. Randi DuMois just posted the The Right Path over at the Less than Legendary Journeys, and I read it and went, this is what I'm aiming for.

Love the snark:

"What?" Iolaus demanded angrily. "If you're just going to criticize, give me my leg back."

Hercules eyed him a moment, one brow lifted in a particularly annoying way. "Okay."