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Hi everyone,
I'm writing a new story and plan to write/need to write a nonsexual post-transformation shower scene. My muse is negleting me a bit - I think Karl is angry because it's nonsexual - so I'm looking for inspiration. I'd be really greatful if you could recommend stories that contain well written shower scenes.
thank you,
Beyogi
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Take a shower and use your imagination, then type that. Or, if you need to, but I don't recommend this, take a laptop into the shower with you and type as you go.
I hope this comes across the right way, I'm really trying to be helpful and not flip. But the only shower scene I can think of is from psycho or porno (something about shower scenes and words ending in o) so I think my suggestion might help most. Also, using other people stuff for inspiration may detract from your own style. I know when I read other people and write, I tend to fall into there style. I had to scrap 5 chapters of a novel once because I was reading hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and all of a sudden I was writing in the cadence of Douglas Adams.
Katie Leone (Katie-Leone.com)
Writing is what you do when you put pen to paper, being an author is what you do when you bring words to life
Shower Scene Research
Try the infamous shower scene from Hitchcock's Psycho, minus the violence.
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Showers
If you're looking for something different deconstruct the classic shower scene. Take Katie's advice, but turn it on it's head. Have your character compare what he is going though to the stereotypical media of showers. Have him ask himself why his shower isn't like the ones out of porn and compare why.
The reason why the Psycho scene works so well is the vulnerability we feel while undressed. Can you address that, or maybe state he doesn't feel that way. Maybe he's pissed as hell over what's been done to him.
Have a scene where he imagines taking Norman's knife and shoving it where the sun doesn't shine. Come on! An over hand strike, really? That's not how you use a knife!
Take your favorite and twist it!
hugs
Grover
I believe the scene from Psycho has been parodied
BTW the man who wrote Psycho -- EXTREAMLY loosely based on Wisconsin's Ed Gien, was on of the Late Mayor Frank Zeidler of Milwaukee's campaign managers back in the 1950s.
Beware of screeching violins!
-- grin --
Q: What is the purpose, goal of the scene? What is it intended to show, to reveal, to lead into?
That will determine a lot of how it should go.
And is it in the past, real time or future?
IE Ivory soap, body wash or some high tech sonic/nanotech thingy? On Earth? In zero G?
Have fun.
Remember the reader's imagination is powerful. Use it. Give us enough to form a mental image but don't over do the details.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Goal of the scene is to push
Goal of the scene is to push home the fact that the character is female now, to let her reflect the day and to have her "pussy" out of experimenting with her new lower equipment.
It's a SF story, but I try to avoid to use too many nova. That means she'd probably use pretty much the same stuff we do today.
Maybe shower scene was the wrong term, as it isn't supposed to be a movie, but part of a novel...
Thanks for the advice,
Beyogi