i've had a similar experience to iulia_linnea in the sense that i have become so accustomed to explicit descriptions of sex in fic that i find everything i see in published fiction completely dissatisfying. i'd never noticed before how many writers use a fade to black even if the description of the scene would be crucial character development. in those cases, i feel that important information has been withheld from me. if i've learned one thing from fanfic, it's that what kind of sex characters have, how they relate to each other in that moment, what goes through their minds etc. can generate complex insights into those characters. if that gets left out, something is definitely missing.
i'm not saying that each story/book needs to have explicit sex in it, just that if the author makes sex an important component of the relationship between the characters, i'd like to know what's going on there. and in more than three sentences.
completely unrelated to this, i saw that you said in another comment that the sequel to a thousand beautiful things will be posted next week! *twirls* i just rearead that story, and found it to be just as enthralling and marvelous as the first time i read it last summmer. i'm so excited for the sequel :)
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i'm not saying that each story/book needs to have explicit sex in it, just that if the author makes sex an important component of the relationship between the characters, i'd like to know what's going on there. and in more than three sentences.
completely unrelated to this, i saw that you said in another comment that the sequel to a thousand beautiful things will be posted next week! *twirls* i just rearead that story, and found it to be just as enthralling and marvelous as the first time i read it last summmer. i'm so excited for the sequel :)