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#Writephant Q2 How do you go about creating intentional awkwardness in a scene?
Awkwardness results when the /reader/ realizes the expectations of the on-stage characters differ but, typically, the characters are neither unaware nor not fully cognizant of the extent of what they don't know.
In the current WIP, the male SC is from a tropical society and resembles a pre-colonial Pacific islander. The female MC lived amongst wolves where clothing wasn't important. Both are doing their best to conform to the European-style society where they temporarily live. The tension in one chapter (at his house) revolves around articles of clothing and what's proper to wear—and the dichotomy between what's right for here versus what intuition and reflex say is right.
Awkwardness ensues.
It works because it is (theoretically) an erotic romance novella.
#Writephant Q2 How do you go about creating intentional awkwardness in a scene?
Awkwardness results when the /reader/ realizes the expectations of the on-stage characters differ but, typically, the characters are neither unaware nor not fully cognizant of the extent of what they don't know.
In the current WIP, the male SC is from a tropical society and resembles a pre-colonial Pacific islander. The female MC lived amongst wolves where clothing wasn't important. Both are doing their best to conform to the European-style society where they temporarily live. The tension in one chapter (at his house) revolves around articles of clothing and what's proper to wear—and the dichotomy between what's right for here versus what intuition and reflex say is right.
Awkwardness ensues.
It works because it is (theoretically) an erotic romance novella.