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[coralhoneyrose]

15, 40, 69 💖

15. How do you write smut scenes? Do you get very visual or detailed? How important is it to be realistic?

I write them through endless agonizing 😔 (just kidding) (kind of)

My more serious answer is that I have like a dozen different tabs up with either posing reference images or like those writing reference posts with suggestions of different word choice options to consider. That usually gets me through the first draft. And then it just comes down to re-writing a lot. Often times I’ll go through sentence by sentence and ask myself:

Are there any other details I could include to make Chrom and Robin’s love for each other come through more strongly?

Are there sensory details missing that would make it more vivid?

How do the characters’ present mental states impact how they are thinking about and approaching the intimacy?

Is there some sort of interaction I can include that would highlight Chrom and Robin’s personalities and make this feel more unique / specific to them?

I also make an effort to work on the scene across a variety of days, so that I’ll look at it with a fresh pair of eyes each time and different things will stand out. Also sometimes I will go re-read some of my favorite nsfw chrobin pieces and examine the writing to try and figure out what the author was doing that made the scene so effective. Learning from the masters, so to speak.

As far as realism goes, I’d say it’s important to me in so much as I do try to keep track of where limbs and bodies are positioned and give some thought to if what I’m describing is anatomically possible. Beyond that, I’m okay with idealizing some aspects a little bit. I do think some awkwardness and imperfections with the experience can add charm though, so it sort of just depends on what the scene calls for.

40. If someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see?

Oh mannn, this is such a hard question. I’m gonna say…maybe the truth serum scene in PtLY? Like either Chrom and Robin running into the hedge maze together OR if it was more of a like—multiple panel-style comic thing, then maybe the sequence while they’re sitting in there where Robin starts blurting things out and panicking and Chrom begins putting together what it means. Ooh, or alternatively, their dance together at the ball would be lovely to see too. I think the take-away here is that I am perpetually desperate for more art of Robin in pretty dresses LOL

69. What work of yours, if any, are you the most embarrassed about existing?

ASfksdg maybe this answer will seem silly in conjunction with the first question, but tbh I still feel embarrassed any time I post anything smutty. Even though everything I’ve written is very vanilla, I’m just not at a point where I’ve been at this long enough to have built up an immunity to the shyness. Since Half Orange has the most explicit content, it winds up being the fic I’m most embarrassed about existing as a result. Clearly that hasn’t been enough to stop me from posting it anyway, but oh boy, if you could see the waffling and bargaining that goes on behind the scenes...I'm very grateful my beta reader is as patient and encouraging as she is 😂

[coralhoneyrose]

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