#nothing too strenuous just a slight sharpening of the focus to keep it clear for the reader what's actually playing out

[gingerbreadmonsters]

Ginger ginger, do you have any advice for writing nsfw scenes of more than 2 people?? I've been struggling with my aaron/gavin/smartass wip bc of the. logistical struggle of writing three ppl recently n wonder if you have any advice to pass along !!

calico my love!! i have survived seminars and dance and i am BACK hehe

(also i will preface this by saying that i have written very little nsfw in my time - kingdom come is like,,,,,,, the second or third one ever?? also my fics only very rarely feature more than 2 people at a time interacting in any sort of meaningful context, so please take this w a nice big grain of salt lmao)

uhhhh i think what helped the most for me was having a clear idea of what the dynamics in the room were - not specifically in like a bdsm way, but moreso like "how comfortable are these people with each other generally? what kinds of things have they done together before? are there things they'd do with one person but not another? what relationships do they have with one another outside this scenario?"

i didn't know exactly how the scene was going to unfold (i.e. specifically who was going to do what to whom, and in what order), but having thought about those kinds of questions made it much easier to think about what sort of actions the characters would be likely to want to take, and how the others would react - i'll use gavin as an example:

i imagine that gavin and vincent are very close, longtime friends and have had quite a lot of sex together before (both with just the two of them and also with other people in the room), so they're more willing to be playful and tease each other, they're more comfortable with touching and leaning on each other, they have a pretty good understanding of each others' body language and likes/dislikes

however, gavin is romantically and emotionally attached to freelancer in a different way than he is to vincent (who has his own romantic partner in the room), and thus in those dips when lovely's recovering, he's looking to freelancer to check in with them, comfort them, and generally give and receive affection in a way that makes sense with the relationship they have outside of this single setting

in my mind, gavin hasn't known lovely for as long as he's known vincent or freelancer, and while he knows they're happy about what's going on, the two of them haven't quite reached the same level of comfort as with the others - as a result, he makes an effort to be very clear with telegraphing what he's about to do before he does it, and checking that they're still enthusiastic about what's happening, letting vincent (who lovely is more familiar with in a sexual setting) ease them into it and talk them up and down, while still making sure that they know that he cares for them as an individual, not as an add-on to vincent

something else that helped was keeping a clear picture of how everyone was physically positioned in relation to each other, and making sure that i described that clearly but not excessively - with several people, there's limbs all over the shop! i had to be a bit more descriptive in order to make it clear who was leaning on who, which "him" i was referring to, which parts of the body were actually in contact, who was speaking to who....

tldr: i think as long as you have a good sense of characters and character relationships, plus a clear idea of how to physically manipulate them from one place to another within the scene, i think you're good to go - you don't need me to tell you how to write a good sex scene lmao 🤡🤡 you're going to smash it babes!! i have total faith in your writing and i look forward to seeing how it goes for you 💕💕💕