As I put the finishing touches on "Lost in the Evensongs" I was telling my best friend that I was still working on the 'love' scenes. She laughed, telling me I just didn't know how to write them right...mine were too tame, too subdued, too docile. And you know what, they are. It's not that I don't know how to write them right, it's that I don't write them as many others do!In my world (and my writing is part of my world), love or forgive me...sex...is private. I don't want to read all the details, or someone else's version of what love/sex is. I don't want my children to read something and think it's normal or correct for a teenager to do some of the things written in books today. Some things are private and need to be kept so. Not that we don't talk, a lot, about these issues, but again those are private.
I love reading a book where they bring you to a point, and then you fill in with your own imagination or life experiences what happens next. A teenager can read it and with their level of understanding fill in, imagining a first kiss or a brush of a hand. Or...like my good friend...can fill in with what she thinks they are doing next.
The birds and the bees are playful and innocent in my little stories, where some things aren't even mentioned until they are married. Where love can bloom and right is right. I'll leave the graphic copulation scenes to others thank you very much.
Some...many...maybe everyone will disagree with me. I'm just fine with that. I want to weave adventures, where good usually overcomes evil, where passion is combined with respect and tenderness...ones that anyone can read and enjoy.
If my dear friend is reading...I love you! And if you want to write your own scenes or tell me what you think they should or are doing when I'm not looking, I promise to blush, and laugh, and try not to think of my beloved characters doing what you suggest...
