Writing Sex!

[dunmurderin]

stacia_kane, an urban fantasy/paranormal romance author (Personal Demons, As the Lady Wishes, Day of the Dead) is doing a small workshop on writing sex scenes at her journal. Her first post talks about What a Sex Scene Does. She warns in her intro for adult language, but the article is fairly tame as far as I can see -- though mileage may vary depending on where you might be reading from.

Since this is one of those things I'm not very good at/comfortable with/unsure of myself with, I'll be watching this with interest.

Essay #2: Do you Need a Sex Scene?
Essay #3: Writing sex without embarassment
Essay #4: When should you write a sex scene?
Essay #5: Mechanics: The Language of Sex
Essay #6: Mechanics: ForeshadowingYour sexual language
Essay #7: Mechanics: Odds and Ends about Language
Essay #8: Mechanics: Illustrating/Advancing Relationship

Comments

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thanks for the tip, Dun.

Even as a comfortable smut-writer, I always want more advice and discussion on the topic. It's easy to get settled into a comfortable rut of "stroke here, rub there, kisskisskiss, ohai orgasm". Need to be shaken up and see how other people do it.

[lstarrunner.livejournal.com]

Thankyouthankyouthankyou for the linkage. I write mecha-smut, but pointers are pointers. And in my own original fic universe, the mecha involved is like Data from ST:TNG, "fully functional".