From: Natalie@yabbs
To: Kirkland@yabbs
Subject: re: Let's talk about sex...
Date: Wed Apr 13 16:11:47 1994

Thanks a  lot...that scene was *very* difficult for me to write.  I've 
read one too many romance novel (*blush*) to be comfortable using the 
kinds of words they use.  So I had to find words I *could* use.  That was 
the most difficult part.  Finding the correct words...  I think that's the 
hardest part about writing anything, finding the words.  For me anyhow.  I 
can know exactly what will happen, but I won't know how to put it on 
screen in the right way (I write on the computer, I can't use paper), the 
way that will convey what I want the reader to feel.  So I often get 
bogged down in revisions (which I hate doing), or the story slowly dies on 
me.  This was the first thing I had finished in a month or so...  I don't 
know about the words though, there's some words I can use, there's some I 
can't...I have sworn to *never* use the word thrrobbing in any kind of 
serious context.  Or heaving.  I just can't.  The words have to speak to 
me somehow before I can arrange them, rearrange them.  When I start 
writing, and I can feel the words, and I can arrange them in the right 
way, I get the most incredible high...do you know what I'm trying to 
explain here?  Well, anyhow, that's my two cents on the matter :) 

--Natalie--