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fifty frenchmen can't be wrong ([personal profile] some_stars) wrote2011-06-27 08:23 pm

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I HATE DESCRIBING KISSES.

I just. I hate the word 'tongue,' okay? I HATE IT. And I've only ever had two enjoyable tongue kisses in my own life, which wouldn't even be that much of an impediment to writing them--I've never stuck my penis in something either, and I write about that ALL THE TIME--but I just, IDK, every time I try to describe some really sexy concept that's in my head (and/or something I've been attempting to fact-check on my hand, held in a Senor Wences position, which actually may be part of what's giving me wrong ideas because my palms and the palm side of my fingers are ridiculously sensitive), I can only make it sound ridiculous and/or gross. LIKE BASICALLY, this is what happens every goddamned time:

Licked his way into A's mouth--no, that's awful and it sounds like rimming. Pushed his tongue into A's mouth--no, 'push' is terrible and so is tongue. Running his tongue behind A's teeth--do other people even like that? I don't think other people like that. Sucking on A's tongue--no, I just described their mouth positions and that can't happen, plus the idea creeps me out anyway. Deepening the kiss--would be fine, if it didn't sound so painfully stupid. FUCK EVERYTHING, I'm skipping this, I want to get to the assfucking. I can write about assfucking.

The tragic thing is that I find the words "kiss," "lip," "mouth," and "teeth" to be super-sexy! I tend to write a lot of shallow-but-wet lip-biting kisses, mostly. But sometimes characterization demands the tongue, and then I am totally screwed.


update: made it through the kiss, now I've hit the part that gives me trouble to write because it pushes my own buttons so hard as to cloud my brain. This is a much, much nicer kind of difficulty.
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[personal profile] ellen_fremedon 2011-06-28 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Console yourself with the thought that the worst tongue-kiss imaginable has already been written, and nothing will ever surpass it:

"He pressed his lips against Spock's, cleverly opening the clamshell mouth and slipping his tongue inside like an echinoderm's everted cardiac stomach."

THIS IS FROM A REAL STORY. WHICH SOMEONE POSTED. You cannot possibly do worse.
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[personal profile] ellen_fremedon 2011-06-28 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
I think I would be happier with total atrocity than with mediocrity.

Words to live by.
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[personal profile] kuwdora 2011-06-28 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
*sits back on her heels and rereads this*

Fascinating.