Not okay right now lads, get off each other.

Have you ever had two characters who, because of the situation in te plot at the time and their personalities managed to keep hooking up when they weren't supposed to, forcing you to edit something way back for a sufficient butterfly effect??

Dear God yes. I've lost count of how many times I've gone back and rewritten scenes because of some of this NaNo's characters -- they wouldn't stop!

Hmm... I've typically just faded to black and picked up later if they wouldn't stop.

Or attacked them with monster. Monstor-inerruptus cools them rather quickly...

Matt

YES.

they don't want to quit.

i finally just gave in and wrote the first sex scene between the two.

MC is a Dragon, passionate by nature. FMC is a rape victim with a very abusive past, so she was very reluctant to get into a sexual situation with him. thank God he's such a caring personality!

First, let me say that I am writing a fantasy novel. Okay, two fantasy novels. Neither one of which was intended to be erotica.

One of them... *sigh* All I can say is that Garrit being such a horn-dog is good for word count but, um, I really wish he and Randulf would take a cold shower so I could move the plot along a bit. Of course, every time I mention this to them, all they hear is "would you two please take a shower" -- completely not hearing the word "cold"... *head desk*

I have had to rewrite whole scenes and plot because I realised the fact my main character was sleeping with so many women so easily was distracting from the fact he's meant to be struggling in life, madly in love with his elf, and... well, that these women can't be that easy, him being a general or not... had to cut half a scene this evening where he shags a vampire woman. MIND YOU, I have heard that in times of great worry about chances of survival (Britain during the second world war) people were having sex massively indiscriminately and often, because of the times and worries over survival.

I suppose however in older times all it took was being a general or high ranking official. Simon Bolivar, the famous revolutionary general who threw off Spanish imperialism in Latin America, was apparently famous for "liberating" a village and then popping in to mingle with the women... showing them how he's a great "liberator".... so for instance, Venezuelan period dramas of that era are according to my Venezuelan friend, often mostly softcore pornography. Not quite what you'd expect, but true to history haha!

Yes. The vampire Aiden wasn't even supposed to have much sex. Then the main character's best friend Devan thought he was really quite attractive. I've managed to put it off until the middle of the book, but it's mostly the vampire keeping away. If Devan had his way, he'd be having his way with Aiden a LOT more.

This happens to other people?! I feel so at home here. Maybe I belong more in this thread than in the litfic genre forum.

But yes, two of my characters can't keep their hands off each other. My evil muse was wanting me to write the sex between them way early on in the novel but I forced myself to develop their relationship a little more. I feel sometimes like Apple and James are sticking their tongues out at me, chugging from a bottle of bourbon while they rest up for more sex. It creeps in everywhere, and somehow I'll have to alter the plot for their massive effed up libidos.

I made my two characters make a bet of who could keep off sex the longest... this just led to A LOT of teasing.