How to Write Sexy Descriptions and Sex Scenes by Val Kovalin

Author:Val Kovalin [Kovalin, Val]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: VK-Now Books
Published: 2011-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

4.2 Flirting

With flirting, there are stages of escalation. Stage One is "Notice me!" The characters may not have spoken to each other yet, but they do things to get each other's attention. They might show up with clockwork regularity to stand in the landscape to catch sight of their beloved. They attempt to make eye contact, which is safely silent. If the eye contact fails to draw attention, the characters can slink away unnoticed to try again another day.

Eye contact can be anything from holding a gaze slightly too long, giving someone a "once over" appraisal, or bold staring. One might glance at someone shyly or coyly from under demurely lowered lashes, or sidelong, or from under a hat or one's loose sheaf of hair.

Stage One advances to Stage Two, "Watch me!" Characters try to hold each other's interest with attention-getting behavior. They are still not yet talking, but their eye contact escalates to smiling, whistling, winking, and giggling.

Characters also engage in preening body language, touching their own assets in a seemingly casual way to draw attention. This could include applying lipstick, bending over to pick something up, brushing the hair, flexing the biceps, licking the lips, and putting hands on hips. One might run fingers through one's hair, smooth a shirt tight against the chest or a skirt tight against the hips, stroke one's beard or mustache, toss the hair or head, toy with one's hair, and twist a lock coyly around one's finger.

Boys or young men who suddenly become aware of being observed by their love interest might have an ostentatious burst of physical activity, such as lifting weights or playing sports. Girls or young women might cluster with their friends, whispering and giggling.

If the characters have progressed to talking with each other, one might ask for, or offer, favors. A man wrestles a tight lid off a jar or retrieves something off a high shelf. A woman straightens a man's tie, cuts his hair, offers him style tips, or fixes something that requires small fingers and dexterity such as his watch or watchband. One might ask for, or offer to do, a favor that involves looking foolish as a measure of proving one's affection. For example, a big burly man meekly sits with his hands out and allows his love interest to wind yarn between his palms for her knitting project.

The more inarticulate characters do good deeds to express the tenderness in their hearts for which they have no words. Someone in charge of making meals gives his or her beloved the most succulent piece of meat, or the biggest sandwich with the best toppings. Unasked, someone else might tune up his or her beloved's car and rotate all the tires.

Most poignant is the workaholic who unexpectedly falls in love, but who has no idea how to court someone. Often he or she falls back on the narrow field of his or her demonstrated competence. So you have a smitten doctor, taping up the beloved's sprained ankle, or captivated lawyer offering legal advice.

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