Inside the Writer's Head - #1

10/26/2014

I've been thinking lately about certain entries I want to write but they have no connection to works in progress, memes or anything of the sort. They are about writing though. Mainly my own thoughts on writing. Feel free to skip over these entries if they don't interest you. Inside the Writer's Head will consist of personal musings and about writing and my own writing process. Also, this is an exercise to try and get me into the habit of writing journal entries again. Good. Now that I've tipped everyone off to what I'm doing, onto the first topic:

Sex Scenes First

I don't know if anyone else does this--if you even write stories with sex scenes in them--but I find that sometimes I will write a sex scene early on. Even if my characters haven't got there yet in their relationship, or if they even will. Especially if they don't have sex in the actual, finished story. Just to get it out of my system. I then find I can concentrate on other things within the story--little details and focus on the build-up. I do the same thing with fight and battle scenes too. I think it's because usually those kinds of scenes (really, any kind of action) is what I'll think of first anyway. I'll have a really cool idea, or a dramatic idea, and then I need to build around it.

Anyone else do that? Have a similar process?