Poorly worded, my apologies. Blame it on the fever I've had for the last 3 days.
I guess what I meant to say here is that if I am writing a slash story, then I consider sex to be an integral part of that relationship and something that I'm going to explore within the confines of that story as a result. It is rare when I can think of a situation in which I would write a slash story where sex really didn't have a place within it somewhere.
(I recently did wonder why a Sherlock Holmes story faded to black - it was kind of jarring, and the author writes explicit sex, so it's not like she never goes there. To every rule an exception, I guess!)
I would have found that jarring as well, and wondered why this story was the exception. In this situation (author who otherwise writes explicit scenes), I would have thought about whether it worked better in this story than not. I would have also wondered if this was a new relationship for the writer (lord knows, when I am just learning the characters, I have enough on my plate trying to seat them in a *chair* in character without getting them into bed with someone just yet). :-)
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Poorly worded, my apologies. Blame it on the fever I've had for the last 3 days.
I guess what I meant to say here is that if I am writing a slash story, then I consider sex to be an integral part of that relationship and something that I'm going to explore within the confines of that story as a result. It is rare when I can think of a situation in which I would write a slash story where sex really didn't have a place within it somewhere.
(I recently did wonder why a Sherlock Holmes story faded to black - it was kind of jarring, and the author writes explicit sex, so it's not like she never goes there. To every rule an exception, I guess!)
I would have found that jarring as well, and wondered why this story was the exception. In this situation (author who otherwise writes explicit scenes), I would have thought about whether it worked better in this story than not. I would have also wondered if this was a new relationship for the writer (lord knows, when I am just learning the characters, I have enough on my plate trying to seat them in a *chair* in character without getting them into bed with someone just yet). :-)