We started talking about issues of gender and otherness. We would surf and save our chats until we had a huge file. So I had cybersex as a gay man with somebody claiming to be a gay man. I forgot to save the session, flipped out, and called Kate. That cemented the idea of having two fictional characters meet online with different personas.
Books still have plots .
We did merge some of our chats, but we really didn't have to edit much. All the erotic scenes, for example, are almost completely intact. No, there's no parallel courtship. There are aspects in all of our characters that are extensions of our personalities, but there are also elements which draw upon our friends. Sure, we settled into certain characters, but we basically let whichever of us was most capable of the necessary task write that section.