How To Write A Kiss

How to write a kiss

Rebloggable version, as requested by davrosbro. :)

Oooh!  Yes!  I love kisses.  Kisses are where it all starts ;).

Okay, first, remember that a kiss is much, much more than just lips.  It is lips, but also tongues, teeth, eyes, faces, hands, noses, bodies, heartbeats,  breath, voice- and most importantly, a kiss is emotions.  A kiss without emotion is just wet mushy lips stuck together.  Ew.  Gross.  The most important part of a kiss isn’t the how, but the who- because of the emotions between the two people.

Okay so:

lips- Lips can slide, glide over each other smoothly, or they can be chapped and rough and dry and get stuck on each other.  They can match, top-to-top and bottom-to-bottom, or they can overlap, with one person’s top or bottom lip captured between the other person’s lips (yummy).  If there is lipstick or chapstick there is lipstick or chapstick flavor, otherwise, lips don’t have a taste (can you taste yours?).  Lips also can smack- the sound of two of them coming together or pulling apart, because they’re wet and warm and soft.

tongue- Tongues are always wet, and always warm.  They’re very versatile.  They can trace over lips, teeth, or another tongue.  They can be smooth and graceful or teasing and flicking.  When tongues are involved, there is drool.  It’s only sexy when you like the person you’re kissing, or else it’s kinda gross. :P

teeth- teeth can clack together awkwardly, or teeth can bite down sensually.  A person biting their own lip is cute, a person biting another’s lips is sexy.  A person biting gently is sensual, a person biting roughly is sexual.

eyes- Eyes can be wide open with surprise, half-lidded with desire, fully closed with pleasure.  Eyes can gaze lovingly, lustfully, wistfully, hungrily, seductively- it all depends upon the emotions of your characters.  Have them do whatever you like, but don’t leave them out- give them at least a mention!

faces- Faces are what the lips are attached to.  Noses bump, cheeks flush, ears turn red, foreheads either wrinkle or relax.  Kisses can leave lips, quite easily, and become kisses on chins, cheeks, noses, foreheads, ears, necks, throats.  Kisses on noses or foreheads are cute and adorable, kisses on cheeks are sweet, kisses on chins, ears, and throats are very sexual.  And a kiss on the lips can be all of those! <3

hands- Hands are super-important.  In order to describe a kiss, usually you want to also describe the hands.  Where are they?  Does one character have their hand behind the other’s head or back, holding them close?  Are they on someone’s shoulders pulling them near, or pushing them away?  Fingers brushing someone’s cheek or palms grabbing someone’s ass convey two very different kinds of situations, even if the kiss itself is exactly the same.

noses- Noses are annoying.  They easily get in the way, especially for first kisses!  People have to tilt their head to one side or the other, and if they don’t, noses bump.  I’d only mention noses if a kiss is supposed to be awkward or uncertain or nervous.

bodies- bodies are either close together, or far away.  Someone can be surrounded comfortingly by someone’s arms, or terrifyingly trapped by them.  Bodies are warm or hot, they are calm or nervous, relaxed or tense.  Body language says a lot.  Is your character pulling away, or moving closer?

heartbeat- Hearts can beat fast or slow, and that’s about all they can do- but there are lots of reasons why they do!  A heart can beat fast with fear or excitement or nervousness; a heart can pound with lust or race with terror or sing with joy.  Hearts can glow, cower, or shatter.  When you really want to drive the emotions of a character home, mention the heart.

breath- To me, the most consuming part of a kiss is the breath.  The air that someone else has just breathed going deep into your lungs is very intimate.  Lips and tongues don’t have a taste, but breath does.  Each person’s breath tastes different, smells different, and surrounds a person differently than anyone else’s breath.  Breath can be warm and sweet, breath can be hot and sexy, breath can be hot and frightening.  It is something that is very present and should not be left out.  A lot of writers leave breath out.  And it’s so important; it’s the most intimate part of a kiss.  Someone else is breathing into your lungs, and it’s either heaven or it’s hell.

voice- Voice conveys much, even without words.  A voice can groan, whimper, gasp, moan, catch, whine, scream, sigh.  Voice can convey emotion powerfully, and while some kisses are silent, usually they’re not.

emotion-  Emotion is the most important- and the thing you try not to say.  You want to describe it, through all of the things above, so that it’s perfectly clear what your characters are feeling, without you ever using the “feelings words”.  If they’re in love, their bodies will lean close, their eyes will smile, their voices will giggle softly.  If they’re nervous, their palms will sweat, their noses will bump, their voices will shudder.  If they’re afraid, their muscles will be tense, their faces will grimace, their lips will not open.  Emotion is the color that you keep inside your mind as you write; it’s the base line that drives the description behind everything else you say.

Wow, that was a lot!  Gosh I hope it wasn’t too much!  Keep in mind not every kiss has all these things- this is just a list of things to consider when writing a kiss, and based on how long of a kiss you want to make.  Keep in mind that typing “they kissed for a long time”…that’s six words, it takes half a second to read, so that’s a short kiss!  If you want a long kiss, you need long sentences that make the reader linger.

So maybe to start off, pick three things on the list to describe in your first kiss.  Don’t try to do it all- that would be too much for even the most epic kiss.  Just pick what’s most important to this particular scene, to these particular characters, and describe those parts along with the lips, and you’ve got yourself an awesome, emotional kiss. <3

This...this is perfect.

Okay so scarlet bug adrien / felix ...i have no idea what to call my boy im so sorry. Is exactly how you drew him and im just - happys sheep /ram noises -

My grumpy bug looks so smug.

Im living for that !!! And the had held cataclysm ? PERFECT !!!

I can't resist.

No betas we die like cannon.

scarlet bug snickers as he watched argos run around like a fool. Thanks to la papillon they didn't have to worry about him making to much of a mess with his centimonsters. Her champion made a small pocket demention this time witch was kind cool. Though hei mao would never let him live it down if he told her.

" alright tikki if you could give me something strate for words that would be great " he said to no one in particular. Maybe his small pocket god of a partner would actually be open and help him instead of making him look like a fool. But he supposed that's not how it works after all he only could use a staff and a shield at the moment due to her being extremely tired. The small round ladybug like yoyo glowed.

A vindictive smile over took his features as his cute partner aquentince made what sound like a horrified gasp.

Oh.

He was gonna enjoy this.

Argos was slightly tarified of the ladybug them vigilante after all he was pointing a gun at him.

The next day Gabriel agruest was seen with a sprained shoulder.

Bad ending a.u !

Soooo this has been on my mind for a while. Marinette is a child and so is adrien. They are babys. BABYS OKAY!

So what if they lost. But instead of a massive distinctive outcome its a reality changing one. And Gabriel in his pig headedness wished for his wife to be healthy and happy by his side. This means he has to lose someone and that some one is adrien.

But instead if dying he loses him.

Adrien is rased on the streets. This lead to two things he's less of a sunshine child and more if a snarky cold boy. ( basically felix, actually he is felix know because this is like crisis on infinite earth with a timeline reset )

Eventually with this new time line new things happen. The ladybug miraculous can't heal everything and the black cat is more destructive. A massive inbalance has happened and so thier powers are different.

Marinette meets felix / adrien while shes helping out to give food to the homeless. They quickly hit it off.

Felix gets the ladybug miraculous while marinette gets the cat. Felix is flusterd but how sweet and kind mari can be while marinette was saved by scarlet bug. Shes how he makes sure the citizens are safe.

Yes role swap my lovely viewer and reversed crush

Felix is a fucken antihero and has a bad habit of giving people bad luck even if he's a ladybug and sometimes taking money from rich people and giving it to the orphanages and homeless shelters that are under paid. Lets just say the mayer isnt a fucken bigshot

Hēi māo ( Chinese for black cat. Yes i googled it like a noob ) is often seen giving sweets to the victims and taking night time protroles.

Marinette best friend is chloe and shes a lot less mean then in cannon. Childhood friend mari helped her and sabrina be better people.

Felix is a lonly loner and likes it. ( im sorry my sunshine child )

The butterfly is a female and is a aly to the two young superheros. La papillon is a pretty blond woman who works with marinette grandfather fu. ( yes that master fu)

Argos wants all the miraculous and will stop at nothing to get it. La papillon and Argos are in a very batman and joker ish relationship with argos as joker and la papillon as batman. La papillon calls her "akuma's " her little one's.

@lenoreofraven inspired this little number quite a bit.

I want someone to write a book where Mermaids are the women thrown off ships when the sailors got afraid because having a woman on the boat is bad luck. And as they sink to the bottom, legs tied together, they change slowly until they can breathe, until they can use their tied up legs to swim. And they drown sailors in revenge, luring them in by singing in their husky voices still stinging from the salt water they breathed. 

Okay okay but miles getting help the younger kids with thier stance and they get all stary eyed when he yeets a ballerina.

And know he has to be careful not to yeet the tiny baby ballerinas.

Instead of making up shitty racist headcanons about Miles shoplifting join me in headcanoning him picking up ballet because he thought Gwen being a ballerina was super neat and it would help him in his spiderman job

🌠Miraculous grayson !🌠

Preview

Chapter 1: the rise of the mother bird

Robin watches as the small girl in red talked animatedly with Agent a. For a moment he couldn't for the life of him remember how this happened. How did it come to this ?

How did he get a baby sister and a sidekick ?

Was baby bug even his sidekick ?

Once he gathered his thoughts he was at a lost for words once he saw batman smiling. Batman. Yeah he was loosing it. Batman wasn't one to smile.

" ...and ! We even went into detail on how to make strawberry shortcake ! Agent a is amazing mister batman !"

Maybe...maybe he could get used to this ? Yeah he could definitely get used to this.

@lenoreofraven because im in a maribat mood !!!!! And i wanna give you a small preivew.

Okay, can I just talk about this comic series for a second? This has got to be the most hilarious comic series I have ever seen. This is AJ & Magnus, a Calvin and Hobbes inspired comic series about an adopted kid, his talking dog, and his 2 gay parents. The humor is really good, very quick and to the point. This series is beautiful, please, give them your love!