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URL: http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/07/richmond-va.html
Title: Richmond, VA
Date: Monday 10 July 2006

LKH in italicised blockquote, me...not so much.

We actually got two questions in the Q and A that we'd not had before. One was why doesn't Anita like women, as in like-like. Honestly, it's because I forget that women are potential sex objects. I am just terribly heterosexual, so I notice men, but women just don't hit my radar. As a writer I see it as a deficit

Everyone please take a moment to let this sink in.

. . .

Geez, as if we haven't noticed that LKH is "just terribly heterosexual" in her reflections in Anita. What with every man on earth - and all who are yet to be born! - fawning all over her, and every single woman on earth either jealous bitches or brainless twits that "don't understaaaand" how to please a man. WTF, I ask you - just what the zombie jesus fuck?

I should probably give her brownie points for recognising this, but...well, I take them off when I read about her solution.

I even went out to the mall with Jon and said, show me how to look at women, but we discovered that our taste in women is too different. Women he thought were cute just didn't do it for me, and women I was willing to say were cute didn't do it for him, so it wasn't very useful.

Just...wait a second. LKH, you want Jon to approve in your taste in women? No...really? Because you two can't agree on something it's classed as "not very useful"?

I am aghast.

Egad, lady. You're allowed to think of chicks as hot. It's okay if your GRR-tough-and-manly-husband (with his glorious locks of long, long haiiir!) [/sarcasm] doesn't agree with what you might hit if you swung that way. You are the writer! You create people that are not real! That totally doesn't count toward being a lesbian or having an affair.

I'm going to faceplam on behalf of us all.

I am trying to add more women to the Anita series in the current book I'm working on, but sadly, the women are probably never going to get the loving description that the men do. My apologies.

No need to apologise, Laurell. Women, generally, do not have penises. Therefore, any description of a woman in the current series would probably be cut down to half a paragraph.

The other question we got was how do I come up with all those sex scenes. Truthfully, I'm going to have to think about that one for a while.

And here was me thinking she had a "to-do" list and she just checked things off as she went.

I mean to me it's not an effort to come up with the scenes. Once you know your characters you just have to think how they would make love, what they would do during sex. Your sex scenes should be different when you're with different people.

I call bullshit on this. What with most sex scenes being pastede on, yay!

Course, it also helps if other characters had personalities and the like, but...well, that also gets addressed:

Personality isn't something that just happens before you get into bed and then afterwards. The person you are is very much there in bed with you, or should be on paper and in real life

In the case of Micah, personality never happens at all. But kinda in the case of Richard, this little statement is true. He stops having any kind of opinion during sex, and then afterward goes back onto the angst parade.

Though, at this point, I'm willing to wager that every time Anita has sex, a character loses their personality. *claps hands* I believe in characters, I do, I do!

I think that's one of the reasons I've never done causal sex, it's never just the physical that interests me.

*coughRequiemByronAugustinecough* Like those were never casual. And after Anita nearly tripped over while watching a well-endowed stripper at the Incubus Dreams strip joint in ID - again, I call bullshit. She's interested in the physical, so don't try to tell me that she wants to know about how other people feeeeel, and thiiiink. Someone please point out to me the number of conversations that Anita has had with male characters that A) do not have to do with Anita's hangups, B) do not have to do with the male characters wangst, C) sex. Hmm? Anyone? Beuller?

I have to know someone before the idea of sleeping with them appeals to me. I think this is the same with the characters. I have to know them, know their history, and something about who they really are before they get that chance on stage with Anita.

I can see it now, the checklist to get into LKH's and Anita's pants are as follows:

1. Must have large penis.
2. Must have omgsotragicpast *woe* even if it's about 1.

And I hope to the gods of writing, she doesn't mean a *literal* stage. But if she does, JC ought to sell tickets at the Circus.

"Come one, come all!" *coughpuncough* "See the Amazing Anita Blake and her inexhaustible snatch! Watch men reduced to mindless shells! Behold the Rainmaker! PH34R the loudest orgasms ever recorded!"

I think reading this blog entry hurt my brain.