They just kissed...

...way sooner than I expected.

Had to tell someone. =)

I'm not going to win this year, but I am having tons of fun and WILL finish this story.

Excellent fun. Those first kisses are the best.

Not sure if I am going to win or not but it is definitely good fun.

Of course, I don't know where the story goes now. That kind of messed up my plot. lol
Guess I'll sleep on it and see what my FMC thinks about it all in the morning. =)

Aww I love writing kisses:) Good job!

I remember when that first happened with my MMC & FMC. I'm hopeless at writing all that yucky romance stuff - I'm writing SciFi for a reason, for goodness sake! - but my characters decided differently.

I wanted to write a series of adventures. They want to have a relationship. What's that all about? :sigh: I think they did it just to make me go back and rewrite the earlier stories with a sense of foretelling.

My MC's first kiss was so intense I had to intervene. . The feelings were there and the mood was right but I wanted them to take it easy. There would be another scene for them to kiss again so I tried to reel them in a bit. Sorta worked. My story is Junior Fic, so I asked my 16yr daughter to read it and make sure her mother didn't get too carried away. Her eyebrows shot up and she said Wow...ok, giggled and said I should leave it alone. So i did :p
I love it when things click!

Like JSR, I'm not good at romance of any sort and so my books are usually adventure/fantasy but with no romance. i was planning a little romance in this book but not with the first that did kiss! that was totally unexpected. TOTALLY - and also with the characters - it was an accidental kiss - they literally fell (tripped) into each other and ending up kissing, so it wasn't intentional - but then later on in the book it was :)

and then I had one character kiss my villain (and then implied they had sex) - THAT was the one i had planned to happen!

I keep wanting a juicy kissing scene but I've had only one kiss the entire novel so far. My main character hasn't realized he's in love yet.

I'm what some would call a 'shipper', so I've secretly been loving this thread since it was posted.

I'm terrible with ANY sexual tension that comes up between characters when I write. I usually rush them into smoochville or sexville way too soon, then expurgate and start over. My male main character this time around is pretty much a man slut, so it's hard to deal with him wanting to jump the bones of practically every female character he sees, never mind the main female character. Trying to pull a balancing act so it stays interesting without negating his perma-horny nature.

Man whores are fun to write though, I have to say.

Welll...iffen it makes ya feel any bettah...when I was working on a NaNo that I had written out in long hard starting in 83, I was still a virgin (gulp) and was trying to write a sex scene with no hands-on experience, not even a kiss...blech. Talk about FICTIONAL *snicker* oy...

I've just throated the happy easy ending my characters were hoping before just because I know everyone wakes up after happily ever after and finds hairs in the bathroom sink :-)

Mine FINALLY got there. Super innocent barely a kiss, but they did it (and got so overwhelmed that they just kinda stood there and looked at each other! And no, they're not teenagers.) It only took them 36,000 words to make it to this point!

When you mention "cringeworthy descriptions of facial expressions" I worry that I'm still doing that. It's hard to "show, don't tell" emotions to a degree--if you write what the character is feeling, then you're just telling, and if you write any of their physical "tells" you start to feel repetitive or embarassing. (I have so many averted eyes, tightened lips, rapid heartbeats, flushing faces, etc. in my novel...)

Anywho, I usually have a wordcount-padding gratuitous sex scene in my NaNos, so I sat down to try to write one last night and just couldn't do it. Turns out my MMC isn't enough of a jerk to deflower a 15-year-old after all. They did share a sweet kiss and finally had it out about their feelings. I was laughing because if I had gone through with the sex, it would've pushed me over the 50k mark. What a thing to win on!

"They kissed" a while ago, around 27K, after knowing each other for about two days.
"They did"... a little while later, but offscreen, as I can't write erotica that doesn't read ridiculous to save my life (and believe me, I regret it).

The only problem is, it was only supposed to be physical. They should have parted then and left it at that. But I put so much into their overcoming social status differences, in terms of attraction and shared interests, that I think they're falling in love now.
Marriage is out of the question, though.
The way I see it, he'll get back home, find a way to bring her, have his arranged wedding and then keep her around as a not-so-secret lover.

They keep trying for a second kiss but those darn chaperons keep getting in the way!! Being a princess is tough!!

they've decided, to hell with being chaste, they're fixing to get frisky...at least until her brother shows up.

her brother, the priest. (he's a riot!)

and btw...i'm hanging out with a bunch of winners!

congrats!

My - well, I guess she's my female main character? It's a first-person narrative story, so I don't feel like there are really 'main characters' aside from the narrator... The woman with the most screen time, anyway, just kissed my narrator.

Except that he's been seeing someone for a year after crushing on her off and on for the 15 years prior. This is problematic as I'm already at 120k words and was hoping to wrap it up by 130-140. Luckily narrator's girlfriend is currently unconscious and kidnapped, so maybe I can squeak by with letting the surprise kiss go unresolved in any direction until the next book. At least it will give my potential future readers something to wonder about between volumes. I'm not really sure what to do with. I was expecting them to just have a sort of half-realized, unspoken sexual tension while they worked together in the future, maybe coming to a head somewhere down the line; only it turns out that she's a take-charge kind of girl and wasn't having any of that.