Oh My God, look at her butt. I mean her butt…it’s just so big. I can’t believe it’s so round. It’s just out there. Gross.
I like big butts and I can not lie.
This song got stuck in my head recently.
Watching a fake butt shake did it.
Really.
Having fun on a girl’s night out recently, we gals wandered through a lingerie store. A store that sold fake butts. I didn’t know these things were on shelves for the buying. I have been lucky not to ever have to wonder about where to get one.
Then I saw her.
A big, gorgeous woman packed into a neon green lace balloon standing in the hallway between the dressing room doors for all to see. She peered behind her, admiring her greatly endowed butt cleavage and asked her friend:
“Does it look real?”
“Hmmm, Lorraine, shake it a little. Let me see.”
I was mesmerized watching undulating buttocks and thighs jiggle in delight.
“Faster, Lorraine! Faster!”
The jiggle became a blur of rippling cellulite.
“Oooh, that’s real good.”
“But does it FEEL real?”
“Hmmmm…” getting a double squeeze in. “Yep, soft and bouncy.”
“You sure it doesn’t look fake?”
“Nahh, big and grabby.”
I wanted to cheer her on and belt out:
Has your girlfriend got the butt? (Hell yeah!)
Tell ’em to shake it! (Shake it!) Shake it! (Shake it!)
Shake that healthy butt!
It was a good public butt shaking that made me realize, why DO we stuff our butts? Is it because we want attention, we want to stand out?
Nemo did this. “He touched the butt.” **whispering**
He wanted to prove something.
Are you a writer? As writers we want to prove we can write.
Is that what we try to do when we stuff our scenes with fake stuff? Add flowery prose. Dangle pretty adjectives and endless adverbs. Making ourselves puff up inside with our fancy sentences.
We’re shaking the fake butt.
Most people know a fake butt when they see it. It covers up the beauty of the natural butt. Every butt is different, like your story.
Don’t puff up your words to sound better.
Has another writer told you this? To not shake your words at us to say “Look at me! This is what I am trying to convey in this scene! This is what my character is feeling! This is what is happening, in case you didn’t know!” **sheepish** me.
Less IS more.
I’ve been told to say it in less. Use one description, not three. Use a simple word versus a fancy one. If its raining, just let it rain. Not. The whizzing drops flung themselves about in a hysterical, wet torrent like a raging monsoon. This is what first drafts are about. Then time to weed whack. I should know!
If you write fiction, do you have an image system in your story?
Is it consistent? Let’s not cram images in our books to dazzle us with fake visuals that don’t mean anything. They have to make sense, connect us to a character, an event, or a place. I admit to being a butt stuffer at times with this.
**sheepish** again. It’s when I go back in editing I hope I pull most of it out. All that stuffing covers up what you’re book is really about. What your premise is. Who your characters are and what they experience.
Ask yourself.
What are you shaking? Are you the real thing or fake? Be you.
A bigger butt isn’t going to make you more glamorous. It just covers up something great hidden underneath. I should know. My butt is big enough!
Readers, what do you think? Less or more shaking of the butt?
Shake that healthy butt! Everyday, just tryin’ to shake what God gave me, my friend. Great post!
Misty, thanks for reading and commenting! I like that – shake what we got! Good advice.
Great advice, Donna. Thanks for reminding us to be real!
Diane, thanks for stopping by and glad you enjoyed!
Well said Donna!
Appreciate it! Was a fun post to write and I was inspired by that comic event!
Ha! Every time I read a beta now that is annoying me with their words, I am going to tell them they are shaking their Butt! Very funny. This will stick with me., Thanks.
HI Jennifer, glad the post will be of use to you! LOL. Was a fun one.
nice post, very interesting point of view. I found your blog searching on google for big butts images btw
HI Juan, yes, my “I like big butts” article about stuffing our writing to appear bigger does get a lot of hits! Glad you found me though 🙂
Haha! Too funny. I also have a big butt…and proud of it. 🙂
I will remember not to stuff it to look any larger…my writing, that is.
Glad you enjoyed, Christin! I try not to stuff mine..writing and the other part never needs stuffing!
i LOVE this analogy! funny and so true. i get it!
even though when i post, it’s all very wrong i know. 🙂 so it’s a good thing i’m not trying to be a writer.
thanks btw, for sharing on mike’s blog in response to
“grace has a face.” i am celebrating your peace with you.
Cindy, thanks for hopping on over! Your post was so beautiful…and I checked out your site. Lovely family!