cornerofmadness

And I just came across this and boy does it sum up how I feel. Last night I nearly deleted Soldiers of the Sun. I knew it would be rough. It was a nano novel after all. But I thought it was good. I thought it was solid. I really thought I'd have it out of here by now and be waiting on a contract.

And now as I go over it, it's like crap. And it's all related to the sexual content. Now it is erotica. But I'm afraid it's reading more like porn. I wanted to illustrate that Temple is using sex as a crutch and is spiralling down, out of control.

I'm not sure it reads that way. I know it reads without emotion. And in some ways all the sexual forays make it choppy. And I'm stuck for ways to fix it.

Do I delete most of the sex scenes entirely?

Do I try to give them more emotional content (something I admittedly am not good at)?

Do I keep them but do more fade to blacks except for the more pertinent ones?

Would shoving in more action scenes help or take away from the main plot even more? And what kind of action scenes? I can't make too much of the main enemy because he's the finale. Other than that it's nothing but a bunch of human thugs? Do I jam in more random demons? I've done that at least twice already?

Do I just delete the whole thing as a piece of crap?

I know it's really not. I know it can be saved if I can figure out how.

It has two sets of eyes on it. It probably needs more but that is easier said than done.

Wish I knew what to do.