LughIldanach: Blog

Let me be very clear. This story carries an incest warning, but no physical incest takes place in the published chapters. If it happens, it would be between an adult mother and adult son, after reflection, consultation, and much thought.

I honestly don't know how it will resolve, so I want feedback. The mother is modeled on a real person, with whom I had an interesting discussion of how her then-teenage sons might be initiated. She is a serious writer on sex, and also was, at the time, a sex worker. I have no special preference on how it resolves, other than I want a happy ending. Incest doesn't especially turn me on, but it is something to explore with these particular characters. The series is going to have quite a bit of character reflections on growing up.

I have been at orgies where I glanced over to see a couple of participants playing chess, and with that bunch, it seemed a reasonable break from fucking. Even my wall-to-wall sex stories will have an intellectual component.

When a story line and character development leads me in a direction that I wouldn't personally go, should there be a disclaimer at the start of the story? For example, I have a character, in an open marriage, who wants to guide the sexual initiation of a young adult son. No, she won't be his first, but it's logical, in story, that they later have sexual contact. Why am I unduly worried about this?

Also, I've had reviewers tell me that they are squicked by the slightest M-M contact. When I'm writing outside someone else's universe, I don't think that's anything to worry about. Even in the Swarm Cycle universe, I'd rather do it when it makes sense with female and male concubines.

Computer problems so I can't immediately clarify in the text, but in "My hooosband needs the LUFF", LUFF is fo-net-ick for "love" in the crazy Romanian's accent.

Short and true story, with sexual overtones but no actual sex, about one reason that I don't think U.S. intelligence is about to take over the world. It's only one of several up-close and personal encounters.

Apologies. I posted a draft rather than the final.

Chapter 16 is important in story development, in that it clarifies some worry for the company of erotic artists -- was one potentially great one going to be a problem?

I really must take mercy on Curt and Art. The story date is deliberately vague, but no later than the eighties. In other words, no 5-phosphodiesterase inhibitors like Viagra. I wonder if I should get them into a clinical trial? So many women...

Alas, the drugs were not developed until the mid 1990s. Too late. Still, I must share a related anecdote that I can't fit into the story:

It was Sunday morning, and the priest had already preached to the adults in the congregation.

Now he was presenting a children's sermon. He asked the children if they knew what the Resurrection was.

Now, asking questions during children's sermons is crucial, but at the same time, asking children questions in front of a congregation can also be very dangerous. In response to the question, a boy raised his little hand.

The priest called on him and the boy said, "I know that if you have a resurrection that lasts more than four hours you are supposed to call the doctor."

It took ten minutes for the congregation to settle down enough for the service to continue.