Subject: Writing citrus without a clue (was Re: [FFML] [SPAM: YUM-YUM] How do you write a lemon?)
From: Lizsue
Date: 8/10/1997, 12:43 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

At 03:12 PM 8/9/1997 -0700, Spiffy (Dustin Goeller) wrote:
Lemon writers of the FFML, heed my call! Actually, don't heed my call and
just answer the following question, if you will. 

Even though I have no plans to write one (really!), I want to know how to
write a lemon. You may never know where it may come in handy. And besides,
lemons are the only fics that ever get read. (You are all a bunch of
sick-o's, you know that?) Does writing a lemon require intense research? Do
you need to experiment before writing? Must you be in extreme physical
shape to write a lemon? And why would you write a lemon in the first place?
Other than too gross a bunch of people out? 

You learn to write anything by reading it, and/or reading about it.

Maybe by experiencing it too, but lots of history writers don't have time 
machines and they seem to do okay.  Also, how do you think people write 
death scenes?  So read a whole bunch of lemons and remix details until it's 
not plagarism anymore.

Also, I guess inexperienced lemon writers risk getting half the biology (the 
other-gender part) wrong, but if someone really really really wants to see 
those mistakes fixed instead of just ignoring the story, they'll probably 
let the author know.

And I guess any motivation for writing a lemon involves grossing someone 
out.  Whatever.