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I did eight pages this morning on Merry, but the chapter ended so that the next chapter begins, or is entirely, a sex scene. I’ve learned through hard experience never to end the day’s work where the first thing in the morning I’m facing a sex scene. I have no idea what mood I’ll be in come morning. Maybe I’ll be thinking about sex, maybe I won’t. But I certainly won’t be thinking about it by the time we have breakfast, get the kiddo off to school, take care of the dogs. Pippin has got to have a longer walk, or he’s going to start eating some of the other dogs. By the time all that is done, the odds of being in a sexy mood is sort of small. So I’ve learned some insurance. Insurance in this case is doing at least a few sentences of the sex scene, or preferably a few paragraphs. Just enough to get through the foreplay, or to have the actual sex, whatever it’s going to be, in progress. I find it much easier to write a sex scene if I’ve left the choreography in mid-dance, so to speak, then having to come up with the entire routine cold. So I’m back to Merry, and trying to drag a few sentences more out of myself today. Frankly, the eight pages tired me out, and if I hadn’t left off with sex as the next thing on the list I’d be done for the day. I’m tired, but tomorrow morning when I sit down to write I’ll be happy I made myself start the scene. So, a quick writing tip, and I’m back to it.