The end is in sight...

[julesjones]

You can put the whips away now, thank you. 2500 words today and I've just finished the final sex scene. One more chapter to go, and then the first draft should be wrapped up and it will be time to start the revision pass and look for beta-readers who haven't seen the first draft. And come up with a title.

As previously noted, this is a menage a trois, with a pair of dolphin shapeshifter doms and a human sub, set in present day Britain. I was a bit worried with this one that it was too much like Spindrift in general theme, but I think that I'll probably get away with it, and not just because of the polyamory and D/s elements. For one thing, Spindrift was very much a fantasy novel that happened to be published by a romance house rather than a specfic house. Yes, there's a gay romance as the main plot thread, but it's about the impact of bureaucracy and security controls on the innocent, and about the conflict between urban and rural and whether the conflict is really what we think it is, and how we define "human", and stuff like that. Only with the Hot Boy-on-Boy Love to provide motivation for the characters to go do stuff, of course.

This one's more on the romance-with-sff-elements side than the sff-with-romance-elements side. I laid off the ID card doom and gloom in this one because a) it would otherwise read too much like Spindrift, b) anyone who's read Promises to Keep and Spindrift has either noticed my views on that subject by now, or probably isn't going to unless I spell them out in one syllable words and 60 point type. It's also a lot less in your face about what happens as the magic runs down and the magical creatures have to decide _how_ to fade away. But it's still got some stuff on what do we mean by "human".

Of course, laying off the political stuff seems to have left room for more sex. Maybe if I actually went and did a page count comparison, I'd find I'm wrong, but there does seem to be a _lot_ of sex in this one. Or maybe it's just the impression left by trying to handle sex scenes where it's necessary to show which of three people "he" refers to...

Comments

[emmyjag.livejournal.com]

ROFL! Yes, negotiating scenes with same sex people is incredibly difficult. I have the same problem when I r/p with other women, especially since we refer to ourselves in third person in Gor.

[julesjones]

Two guys, no problem. Years of practice in writing that. Three has been a little trickier. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

I have absolute faith in your ability to avoid pronoun confusion. I have even more faith that I'll be so distracted by the sex that I probably won't care about the bloody pronouns. I mean, three boys AND D/s? You so wrote this for me. Admit it.

~Raven~

[julesjones]

Let's just say that you were one of the sources of inspiration for this. :-)

Have you taken to reading LJ in your copious free time, then? When are you going to get an account?

[(Anonymous)]

I got sucked into the LJ world by accident. It's a freakish thing that happens occasionally, usually when I'm too tired to defend myself. Never getting an account. We all know my little OCD issues. Can you imagine that damage I'd do to myself and possibly the world in general if I had an LJ to maintain?