So, my best friend and I talked over the phone yesterday evening (something we do almost daily) and we discussed my new story idea. The one about the mermaids — she already knows about Supersize Girl and is as supportive as she can be for someone 2,000 miles away and totally uninterested in my kind of stories. (i.e. contemporary paranormal romance)
Anyway, I mentioned that I had no idea how my merpeople would have sex, because, well, it is a romance and characters usually have sex at least once during the story. She suggested I find a way to make the merpeople human for a night and then they have sex the two-legged way. I vetoed that I idea immediately — what’s the fun of having merpeople if they don’t have mer-sex? I mean, really! This is such an opportunity; I can’t waste it! She got seriously freaked out by the thought of bizarre fish sex, which totally grossed me out after only a few seconds of deep thought. Ick!
So, now what? How do merpeople do the nasty, bump uglies, bone down, boink, (insert favored metaphor)? I have sort of an inkling, but don’t know how well it will transfer from my head to the paper. Wish me luck!
