Sex in Fic Poll
Aug. 14th, 2007 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxOkay, so I'm somewhere between half way and two-thirds finished with my (very, very rough) first draft of my Spuffy ficathon fic (which will have to be majorly re-written in second draft). Anyway, it struck me last night that, though I had always had in mind "work in a Spuffy love scene if you can", thinking about my plans for the last half(?)/third of the story, I'm seeing less and less chance that I can work in a love scene.
So, the question is, how important is a love scene? Is it something that I should work to incoporate into the fic? Surely there must be some way to do it. (I know there have been stories where I'm left feeling that I need consummation.) Should I focus on the organic story and if sex works, it works. If it doesn't work, that's the way the cookie crumbles? Is it okay to put it in the epilogue even though it might be superfluous to the focus of the fic? And, finally, today I floated the idea of simply writing the scene as a separate ficlet taking place at some point after the conclusion of the Spuffy fic.
Anyway, how important is it to have sex in your romance? And which might be the most preferable solution?
[Poll #1039389]
So, the question is, how important is a love scene? Is it something that I should work to incoporate into the fic? Surely there must be some way to do it. (I know there have been stories where I'm left feeling that I need consummation.) Should I focus on the organic story and if sex works, it works. If it doesn't work, that's the way the cookie crumbles? Is it okay to put it in the epilogue even though it might be superfluous to the focus of the fic? And, finally, today I floated the idea of simply writing the scene as a separate ficlet taking place at some point after the conclusion of the Spuffy fic.
Anyway, how important is it to have sex in your romance? And which might be the most preferable solution?
[Poll #1039389]
