Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing”
by coldtea on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:06PM
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>Maybe it's just me but I don't understand what this sentence means. I've never heard of a "marriage blackout night" and can't parse what it means.
It means drinking inside the house into a blackout stupor (actual or not but meant for effect) during covid nights where you couldn't get outside.
>"the usual briefs and t-shirt" is not a sexual statement.
It's not to you, because of what the author already covered: you want sex to be a story, not a fact hanging in the air.
In other words, you look whether the description has an explicit a sexual purpose.
But this introduces nakedness and the human body without explicit sexual purpose. The sexuality is a background, not a plot, and the details help paint a picture, don't tell a story, and don't serve as plot devices.
That's also what the american editor couldn't understand - and for the same reasons.
It means drinking inside the house into a blackout stupor (actual or not but meant for effect) during covid nights where you couldn't get outside.
>"the usual briefs and t-shirt" is not a sexual statement.
It's not to you, because of what the author already covered: you want sex to be a story, not a fact hanging in the air.
In other words, you look whether the description has an explicit a sexual purpose.
But this introduces nakedness and the human body without explicit sexual purpose. The sexuality is a background, not a plot, and the details help paint a picture, don't tell a story, and don't serve as plot devices.
That's also what the american editor couldn't understand - and for the same reasons.