Interlude writing: 3.17 - Ais

Sometimes I find the writing process to be interesting for this series, and maybe in general for me. It's funny because, as I've mentioned before, Sonny and I tend to look forward to certain chapters or scenes for a long time but when we get to writing it one or both of us may end up being uninterested. I think it's the anticipation that kills it.

That happened to me with several interludes... even 3.11 and 3.12 (they will be released next weekend and what the hey, I may as well give out the titles as teasers-- Forfeit and Entre Nous). Scenes that I think will be super cool, sometimes I just don't want to write at all.

I used to sort of like writing action scenes and really didn't like writing sex scenes. So this is, I suppose, why I'm feeling a bit perplexed at the moment.

There are action scenes in some of the interludes that I was like, "Auuuugh I don't want to wriiiite," but then the one I'm working on now has a sex scene in it and somehow, this interlude just exploded in length. And the sort of sex in it is... well. I guess you'll see. But it's not something I'm sitting there going, "Wow this is hot" for because that's not the point of it.

At the moment, it's 31 pages according to Word (that's with a space between each paragraph) and I haven't even gotten the most crucial part of the sex scene written. This particular interlude was interesting because it was added somewhat last minute and I still don't know some parts of it. I didn't work on it for a few days, and then I wanted to work on it on my laptop and killed my laptop accidentally before I could (still need to bring it in -_-), so I was able to borrow a friend's mini laptop which I've used on and off.

As a result, a lot of it was written in little snippets that, when pasted into the larger document, contained a whole bunch of blank spaces in between. And one part I'd written was originally the beginning of the sex scene and I decided it worked better at the end, and then THAT was expanded...

And these other scenes I never really intended to write initially squeezed in there and then expanded as well, resulting in some strange insights.

I've worked on this thing all day and I always know when I've pretty much worked on something a whole day without taking many breaks, and when I haven't been typing super slow, that it's going to be a decent length. I guess I just didn't realize it was that long. It may even be pushing 40 pages by the time I finish the sex.

And that's crazy to me.

But I really like how it worked so well to just jump all over the place, writing the parts I was inspired for, then moving them around until they were cohesive.

It's been awhile since I felt so interested in writing a story, maybe because so often the interludes include things I'm trying to be careful about getting in there and having it happen a particular way. But in this one, I was able to explore some things I otherwise wouldn't have been able to.

And I know this is all super vague but I guess it may make more sense once that's released. I was going to say what the title of it is but I realized it would be a pseudo-spoiler if I did because of some of the info I've already mentioned.

Wow, I'm getting tired though. I've been working on this shit for like. idk. 8-10 hours or something.