Niveous wrote:I always enjoy a good willing erotic submersion. Now if only I had the writing capabilities to do something with it lol. Though, one idea that's been swimming around in my mind is two lovers, one of which who wants to give herself to the sands, decides to make one last love session. What ends up happening is the willing one would lay on her back on the edge while the other eats her out, pushing her lover under in the process.
I would encourage anyone with a story idea to give writing it a try. One thing to always remember in doing so: In a short story an extremely fundamental rule is that the writer (and subsequently the reader) can be inside only ONE CHARACTER's HEAD. That means that the writer can write what ONLY ONE character is feeling or thinking. Therefore, tell the story from the point of view of ONE of Three possible people. Those are either of the two characters mentioned or a third-party observer. Everything else has to be expressed through dialogue or actions. Exceptions to the above should be left, in my opinion, to experienced writers who have already mastered the basic technique.
Note, by the way, that this is a fundamental difference between writing a story and writing a stage or movie script. In the script you cannot be inside ANYONE's head. Everything has to be expressed through dialogue or actions.
For anyone who wants to try it, there is an exercise I have used several times for writing practice. First, try writing the story from the POV of character A. Then, write the same story again but from the POV of character B. [Or possibly character C].
Another difference between story writing and script writing, at least insofar as the script writing is limited to relatively short "scenes," is that for the script (or scenario) its usually ok to focus on "what happens." If a short story is just "what happens," however you generally get something that reads like it was written for a seventh-grade story exercise. A story needs to put the reader inside the character's head.