I have chapter three of the Pool Girl done but not wrapped. I want to spend more time proofing it. Meanwhile I have what is little more than notes for chapter four and had intended to spend time this morning working on it but instead my dog looked at me forlornly from the foot of the bed and crawled up into the crook of my arm, proceeding to fall asleep. Neither heaven nor earth could have made me force her to move from that spot.
While laying there I got to thinking about character and kink in erotica. I've read a lot of erotica, good and bad. And the thing is, I've really enjoyed some of the bad erotica. If you enjoy it, it can't be bad right? I don't think so. The fact is that some is bad but the kinks in it just happen to line up with mine so perfectly that I enjoyed it anyway.
My intention when I started was a story with a lot of kink and a lot of sex. But Melissa and Robert have voices in my head and those voices are more like real people than, as Melissa would call them, rutting satyrs. She's definitely picked up that phrase from Robert though it might never occur to him to use it again. So, the kinks have taken a back set and also changed. One thing I had planned for was very kinky and as I wrote Melissa I realized she didn't think like that, about that specific thing. To my surprise she has some other kinks though that will definitely take the stage and be foreshadowed in chapter four. Robert has no clue yet and Melissa herself will be surprised as they come to the forefront. This is a long way of saying that there will be a lot more sex and kink but only because that is in the nature of the characters, not because I'm writing a sex story.
I didn't fucking plan that.
They're not a couple everyone will approve of, naturally. There will be conflict. One point of conflict has changed too. I had thought "here is how Robert would get around it very, smartly." Then laying in bed I realized, it's not Robert's problem, it's Melissa's and she wouldn't even involve him at first even though his life is part of her decision. And she has contradictory thoughts playing a battle out in her head. Sometimes you have to cut a Gordian knot and does a high school senior really think of the best way?
It turns out I'm as curious to find out as anyone else.