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So lately I\u2019ve been working on what ought to be (REALLY ought to be, this is running later than it should have) the last 20,000 words or so of the next in the \u201cTales of the Five\u201d short novels: this one being #3,\u00a0The Librarian<\/em>. The phrase \u201cshort novels\u201d is relative here: TOTF3 will top out at around 80K and change, just a little longer than TOTF2: The Landlady<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Anyway, as so often happens with one of these operations, I\u2019ve been holding hostage what looks like the most fun part of it until the rest of the work has been well advanced, if not completed. And in this case, that means the Hot Gay Sex Scene.<\/p>\n

I mean, let\u2019s get real here; for me, Herewiss and Freelorn are the core of this fictional universe. Without the two answers to the question I asked my mom when I was about six, \u201cWhy can\u2019t a prince rescue another prince?\u201d, there wouldn\u2019t be<\/em> a Middle Kingdoms series. So Lorn and Dusty hold a special spot for me\u2026 not least the one established in The Door Into Fire<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>when Herewiss\u2019s dad yelled up the stairs to them, \u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d and the answer came back, \u201cWe\u2019re fucking!\u201d\u00a0<\/em>(Some meta from the characters regarding that and other issues can be found here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

So the time has at last rolled around to deal with the after<\/em>-\u201dhappily-ever-after\u201d version of that scene. And it\u2019s been a bit of a balancing act, as the last sex scene involving both of these characters happened \u201cout of shot\u201d, with the doors shut, the mid-series ones were either similar to that or simply inferred, and the ones in the first book were conducted pretty much with the lights turned out. Now, of course, these works not having to deal with editorial at a traditional publisher, it\u2019s possible to let everybody off the leash a little<\/em> bit. Yet there are also matters of style to consider: this work needs to be tonally of a piece with earlier works (and with The Door Into Starlight<\/em><\/a>, when it materializes). So, as I say: a balancing act.<\/p>\n

Something that\u2019s been helpful of late is a work tool I didn\u2019t have in previous years: digital art. I can\u2019t draw\u2026 but I can\u00a0<\/em>see things in my head, and the computer can draw them. (Some of this art appears on the MiddleKingdoms.com website<\/a> and on its Instagram<\/a>.) My preferred tool is Daz Studio<\/a>, especially since the Daz 3D<\/a> platform is the source of male and female figures who (especially in the case of the males) look almost exactly<\/em> like the main MK characters as I\u2019ve imagined them for the guts of forty years. Anyway, these days when I get stuck on a scene or a piece of written business, I can take a break and spend a day or so imagining it graphically, and usually the problem at the prose end of things will break during that process. And afterwards I\u2019ve got art, too! So everybody wins. It counts as crossing the streams a bit, I guess, creatively speaking, but generally this approach seems to work.<\/p>\n

One tactic I\u2019ve also been exploiting here, as regards the Hot Gay Sex scene, is the Sneaking Up On It By Stages approach, where you deal with what happens before the sex, or after, and then go forward or back as necessary. (I am really, really<\/em> restraining myself here from using more loaded idioms.) In previous days this has taken the form of art that\u2019s appeared elsewhere on my Tumblr<\/a> or over at Pillowfort<\/a> or wherever. (The more-finished version of this lead-in scene, during which Freelorn is explaining to Herewiss about how he has to go away on sort of a mystical business trip with the [peculiarly] good friend who killed him during the War, and how Herewiss can’t come, appears at the top of this post.)<\/p>\n

But now at the prose end I\u2019m getting into the thick of it (oh Goddess, this is going to wind up sounding like some kind of bad lube ad, isn\u2019t it…) and it\u2019s time to get into the heads of the characters actually doing eeeeet.<\/em> Which means designing the art that\u2019s going to help me think about the ins and outs (WHY AM I EVEN TRYING<\/em> TO AVOID THE DOUBLE ENTENDRES NOW) of what happens in that bed.<\/p>\n

Which meant, to start with, designing the bedroom \u2013 in this case, the royal chambers in Kynall castle in the Arlene capital city of Prydon. Earlier attempts at this were unsatisfactory in that the set I was using was too crude. So instead I pulled out a set that\u2019s a little more modern and aged it backwards. It was originally just a three-sided set, so to complete it I wound up stealing pieces from other digital sets and indulging in some electronic kit-bashing. Then, of course, the set had to be dressed. Nice windows. Better floors. Furniture. (The bed\u2019s not optimal but it\u2019s OK.) Books. Lamps. Personal effects. Linens. And finally, of course, the characters. (I should mention here, if there was any question, that it’s entirely likely that no one but me will ever see this<\/em> work: it’s primarily for my reference. But while making it I’m likely to find some piece of character business that I wouldn’t have found otherwise.)<\/p>\n

Getting the characters into the bed? No problem. It\u2019s positioning\u00a0<\/em>that becomes absolutely key. A fraction of a degree\u2019s worth of bend or flex in the wrong direction can render everything hopelessly wooden or unnatural. Hands in particular are so vital: a pinky put wrong can destroy everything. And as for facial expressions\u2026 these are probably most vital of all, depending on context. And changes in lighting, or very minor changes in position, can completely alter what a moment before looked perfectly executed.<\/p>\n

So\u2026 they\u2019re in the bed, and the search has begun for the perfect position, the perfect expressions, to communicate the realities of lovemaking between two now-powerful but still quite vulnerable men who know for a fact (because the Goddess told them so) that they and the other people they love the most dearly are essentially living on borrowed time; and one of them\u2019s about to go away on a business trip that may be nothing in particular, something not-routine but necessary\u2026 or may kill him. Or not. Who knows? Why borrow trouble and imagine what may not happen? Yet still. This might be the last time. And there\u2019s no way to tell.<\/p>\n

\u2026And so to bed. All this thinking, and the consideration of positions, actions, dialogue, character, is going on in the back of the writer\u2019s brain. While in the front, other business is being handled. Lighting. Making the damn pillows stay where they\u2019re put. Moving the lights around for best chiaroscuro.<\/em> …In the foreground work, Herewiss is pretty much where he needs to be, and now we\u2019re hunting expressions. Move a limb or a torso, wait for the rendering engine to show you how it looks in real light. Move it again, wait again. And again. Again. Again.<\/p>\n

One time Herewiss\u2019s head looks like this.<\/p>\n

<\/figure>\n

Mmh, yeah, that one at least suggests\u00a0<\/em>that whatever\u2019s going on south of his waist, he\u2019s enjoying it. Mouth still probably needs work. But meanwhile, okay, good \u2013 let’s turn his head a little more into the light and see how that works.<\/p>\n

Whoops, hit an extra control there, hope I haven\u2019t twisted his head completely out of shape. Screen goes black. Wait for the render engine to do its thing. Turn away for a second, turn back\u2026 and find this.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/figure>\n

\u2026WUT.<\/p>\n

My own character is giving me the stink-eye. WTF.<\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Nothing to do but laugh like anything as the internal dialogue instantly unrolls (and the whole nature of the artwork in progress changes in my head as a result, but that can\u2019t be helped.)<\/p>\n

HEREWISS: Excuse me, but can you please hurry up with this?\u00a0We are trying to have sex here.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

FREELORN: (o.s.) Emphasis on the trying.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

HEREWISS: Do you know how distracting\u00a0<\/em>this is? Imagine if whoever made your universe was watching you\u00a0<\/em>do it with your spouse.<\/p>\n

DD: Okay, there\u2019s<\/em> an image I didn\u2019t need. And indeed a whole concept.<\/p>\n

FREELORN: Is all this really necessary? Just smash us together any old way and let us get on with it.<\/p>\n

HEREWISS: Yes, there\u2019s a phrase, isn\u2019t there? \u201cNOW KISS.\u201d<\/p>\n

FREELORN: Trust me, I know where his bits are! I\u2019ve known for forty years.<\/p>\n

HEREWISS: I can safely say the same. In fact it\u2019s kind of impossible to miss them.<\/p>\n

FREELORN: (grins, blushes) Flatterer.<\/p>\n

HEREWISS: Still the truth. And anyway, you love it.<\/p>\n

FREELORN: (attempts expression of becoming modesty) What? I\u2019m as She made me.<\/p>\n

DD: From both of us, you\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n

FREELORN: (breaks down laughing)<\/p>\n

HEREWISS: Don\u2019t encourage him. Anyway, come on, stand back and let me get him sorted out.<\/p>\n

DD: (snickering) Can you even hear\u00a0<\/em>yourself.<\/p>\n

FREELORN: Whether he can or not, you may as well. He\u2019s been sorting me out ever since we met.<\/p>\n

DD: This is absolutely not\u00a0<\/em>how I imagined this evening going.<\/p>\n

FREELORN: Me either, so please let\u2019s get on with it, can we? This man has not had an orgasm since 1992.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

DD: (collapses in helpless laughter)
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

HEREWISS: On-set, anyway. It\u2019s really not\u00a0<\/em>the same.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

DD: Fine. Fine.<\/em> Meantime, it’s late. Can I finish this piece of work first, please?<\/p>\n

HEREWISS: My King?<\/p>\n

FREELORN: (graciously) I give you leave. \u2026Especially the leaving\u00a0<\/em>kind of leave, if you take my meaning.<\/p>\n

DD: (shakes head) (saves file) If you two were smart, maybe you wouldn\u2019t get so salty with your creator.<\/p>\n

HEREWISS: As if we\u2019re even slightly worried.<\/p>\n

FREELORN: You love us too much to do us wrong.<\/p>\n

DD (resigned): You smug SOBs.<\/p>\n

HEREWISS: Go to bed. We promise not to look.<\/p>\n

DD: (snickers and does as she\u2019s told)<\/p>\n

<\/figure>\n

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