For those still interested in the long-struggling novel, it got more of a break thatn I wanted it to get over the holidays, but I'm now chugging along. Well, not really chugging, but trying to get through some of the last few chapters before the climax without taking too big of an infodump. "Look, it was the one-armed Ssestrucian all along!" In the next week, I swear, since I've got other writing projects bearing down on me at the same time.

In other news, I've been telling people recently about the absolute worst sex I've ever read, which was, naturally, in a Conan book written by Robert Jordan. In this scene, Conan saves a girl from being raped, and then decides that he's going to have sex with her, whether she wants to or not.


"You spoke of a reward." He stepped out of his breechclout. "Since I doubt a word of thanks will ever crack your teeth, I'm collecting my own reward."

"So you're nothing but a ravisher of women after all," she said bitterly.

"That was close to an uncivil word, wench. And no revishment. All you need to do is say 'stop' and you'll leave this place chaste as a virgin for all of me."

He lowered himself onto her, and thoug she beat at his shoulders with her fists and filled the air with vile curses the word 'stop' never once passed her lips, and soon her cries changed their nature, for she was a woman full fledged, and he knew something of women.


So, basically, it's rape, but she liked it. Okay. If you can find worse sex in a novel, I'd really like to see it.