My husband is home so I'll be taking a break from writing and posting. My kids are over the moon; they've missed their daddy to pieces, and so has mommy.
My reading list this week:
Deeper, Megan Hart
In Mid Air, Kim Wright
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
How Hot is Too Hot?
Ok, I've read some seriously hot stuff this week. How far can it go? I've heard about one handed writers, (get it, with one hand?), but are there one handed readers out there? Inquiring minds want to know!
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Writing Sex Scenes
In the last two weeks I've read the following titles:
Take it Like a Vamp, Candace Havens
Short Steamy Sampler, K Matthew and Sky Corgan (Same author, I think)
One Fiery Night, Em Petrova
One Weekend Only, Christie Butler
Touched by a Demon, Ruby Winchester
Party Favors, Aubrey Watt
In the Barn, Selena Kitt
Connections, Selena Kitt
A Twisted Bard's Tale, Selena Kitt
My biggest question after digesting all that heat is this: How do they write these steamy sex scenes?
In my erotic writing, I plug along, easily getting my characters to take their clothes off, but choke when the real heat starts. Embarrassment, a frigid internal editor, I have no idea what's the problem. The transference from watching sex to writing it can be jarring, I know this. To help me get over this hump, (punny, I know), I downloaded Be a Sex-Writing Strumpet by Stacia Kane. (I think she is also December Quinn?) A lot I already knew. As with any kind of fiction writing, a good sex scene should do the following:
1) Show something about the characters.
2) Show how the characters interact and the nature of their relationship.
3) Advance the story
4*) Arouse the reader
Ok, #4* stumped me. Not all readers are alike. What arouses one, may turn off another. This hiccup I recognized as the anxiety a lot of writer have over their audience. We want to please all of them but in doing so, we lose the story within us. My solution, at least my solution right now, is to let the story flow naturally, uncover it as Stephen King says (On Writing) and until my characters achieve their happy ending (happy ending, get it?)
Take it Like a Vamp, Candace Havens
Short Steamy Sampler, K Matthew and Sky Corgan (Same author, I think)
One Fiery Night, Em Petrova
One Weekend Only, Christie Butler
Touched by a Demon, Ruby Winchester
Party Favors, Aubrey Watt
In the Barn, Selena Kitt
Connections, Selena Kitt
A Twisted Bard's Tale, Selena Kitt
My biggest question after digesting all that heat is this: How do they write these steamy sex scenes?
In my erotic writing, I plug along, easily getting my characters to take their clothes off, but choke when the real heat starts. Embarrassment, a frigid internal editor, I have no idea what's the problem. The transference from watching sex to writing it can be jarring, I know this. To help me get over this hump, (punny, I know), I downloaded Be a Sex-Writing Strumpet by Stacia Kane. (I think she is also December Quinn?) A lot I already knew. As with any kind of fiction writing, a good sex scene should do the following:
1) Show something about the characters.
2) Show how the characters interact and the nature of their relationship.
3) Advance the story
4*) Arouse the reader
Ok, #4* stumped me. Not all readers are alike. What arouses one, may turn off another. This hiccup I recognized as the anxiety a lot of writer have over their audience. We want to please all of them but in doing so, we lose the story within us. My solution, at least my solution right now, is to let the story flow naturally, uncover it as Stephen King says (On Writing) and until my characters achieve their happy ending (happy ending, get it?)
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