Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Lil Update

My wip is renamed - for the third time! I think it had something to do with all of us calling it Kill Lil, it was inevitable eventually I'd end up sliding Lily in the official title.

And it's weird. My last ms was written entirely from the heroine's pov, but all the witches immediately dubbed it Neo, after the hero. But the current one, despite starting off in the hero's pov and also having the villian's pov, is definitely Lily's story.

I'm now just over two thirds of the way through and am approaching the Sex Scene or, as one certain witch likes to refer to such things, the Smut Scene (not that I write smut, perish the thought, I'm sure I don't know what she means?)

So for the next few days I'm going to have endless headaches, chewed fingernails and doodles on my notepad as I attempt to get the love scene just right. It's not that I don't enjoy writing them, I just find them totally exhausting and a real challenge to make them steamy and believable (no third hand suddenly popping up from nowhere!)

2 comments:

Sara Hantz said...

It never ceases to amaze me that you 'Queen of Smut' find it so hard to write these scenes. Because when I read them they seem so effortless. I couldn't even begin to attempt what you do, probably because I only have two words in my smut-range (and we both know what they are!!!)

Christina Phillips said...

aww thank you so much Sara! < blush >