I managed to get in over 3K of words today on the rewrite of Butch Girls. I think I got some things out of order so my job tomorrow is straightening them out.
By the way, you can keep track of my word count (if you are odd enough to want to) by clicking the ‘wordcount log’ link at the top. I keep a grand total; monthly totals; the current goals and their counts; and the current counts of the major WIPs I am working on.
Anyway, Grace and Kelly have gone on their first official date, although Lucy went with them. Next is the Thanksgiving gathering and by Christmas, their dating is more official, altho they won’t do the deed until after New Years. I think. Lorna is of the opinion that sex scenes should be sexual but not erotic. There is a difference. She likes scenes like that to fade-to-black, letting the reader use their imagination. Or, if it must be there, to gloss over it without details. We both agree that sticking a tongue into someone’s mouth while kissing is the grossest thing ever. Yet, every straight and lesbian romance I have read, they always do it. Gross. You can put it elsewhere (hint: back of my neck), but don’t stick it in my mouth.
Sometimes though, a scene just needs to be written through. I cut them out and keep them all in a file named ‘explicits’. One of these days I may put them all together in an anthology of sorts or turn it into an erotica novel. I even have explicit scenes from Lea and Sarah!
Okay, done with that. Going to go over some of the stuff I wrote today, perhaps even work some on the outline in Inspiration. By the way, I still LOVE that program.
Speaking of programs, I am a big fan of open source software. I use OpenOffice.org, Autorealm, the GIMP, Firefox, and Thunderbird. I use other smaller programs as well. Sites to check out are The Open Source Community, ObjectWeb, and SourceForge. Have fun!