squid on the mantelpiece
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IDK how much aspiring writers read the Turkey City Lexicon anymore but it does remain a solid primer for writing SF/genre fiction, and actually, fiction in general really. (I was given a photocopy of it in college…)
but anyway, there was a lurid romance novel on the shelf in act, er, chapter 14, and now in chapter uh 17 or so it’s got to make its appearance: it’s time for a visitor (maybe Jaskier) to encounter one of the trashy books on Geralt’s bedroom bookshelf. [in chapter 14 of Ancient Sea, I described them with And sure, many of the books were obscure academic tomes but there were, well, probably a lot of battered novels of embarrassing subject matter in there, from his younger days. Who was he kidding, he still fucking loved stupid romantic novels with knights-errant and salacious descriptions of bosoms in them.]
This visitor browses until they find a book with a promisingly worn cover, and then plops the book down in their lap, and it obligingly opens to the extremely hottest part of a suitably memorable scene, one that a reader might conceivably have revisited several times, and possibly might have had to put the book down during a reread, as one might, if one got distracted in one’s, er, contemplation thereof (especially if one’s contemplation suddenly required the use of one or more of one’s hands), and so now the book just falls open to that scene.
But my question is, I suppose I’m taking prompts here, as close as I ever come- what should be in this scene?? I want it to be embarrassingly id-tastic which is kind of my specialty but I’m sort of spoiled for choice and want ideas.
(yes, this visitor is absolutely going to slip the book back onto the shelf and then in the midst of having sex with Geralt make some reference to it and he immediately recognizes it and is simultaneously mortified and turned on beyond all enduring.)
IDK how much aspiring writers read the Turkey City Lexicon anymore but it does remain a solid primer for writing SF/genre fiction, and actually, fiction in general really. (I was given a photocopy of it in college…)
but anyway, there was a lurid romance novel on the shelf in act, er, chapter 14, and now in chapter uh 17 or so it’s got to make its appearance: it’s time for a visitor (maybe Jaskier) to encounter one of the trashy books on Geralt’s bedroom bookshelf. [in chapter 14 of Ancient Sea, I described them with And sure, many of the books were obscure academic tomes but there were, well, probably a lot of battered novels of embarrassing subject matter in there, from his younger days. Who was he kidding, he still fucking loved stupid romantic novels with knights-errant and salacious descriptions of bosoms in them.]
This visitor browses until they find a book with a promisingly worn cover, and then plops the book down in their lap, and it obligingly opens to the extremely hottest part of a suitably memorable scene, one that a reader might conceivably have revisited several times, and possibly might have had to put the book down during a reread, as one might, if one got distracted in one’s, er, contemplation thereof (especially if one’s contemplation suddenly required the use of one or more of one’s hands), and so now the book just falls open to that scene.
But my question is, I suppose I’m taking prompts here, as close as I ever come- what should be in this scene?? I want it to be embarrassingly id-tastic which is kind of my specialty but I’m sort of spoiled for choice and want ideas.
(yes, this visitor is absolutely going to slip the book back onto the shelf and then in the midst of having sex with Geralt make some reference to it and he immediately recognizes it and is simultaneously mortified and turned on beyond all enduring.)
