Comments on: Writing Sex http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/11/03/writing-sex/ Red Hot Reads Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:04:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Samantha Hunter http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/11/03/writing-sex/#comment-5754 Samantha Hunter Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:32:22 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=2208#comment-5754 Thanks DL! Thanks Eileen! It's good to get different perspectives. I can see where that particular scene would not have been very inspiring. ;) Sam Thanks DL!

Thanks Eileen! It’s good to get different perspectives. I can see where that particular scene would not have been very inspiring. ;)

Sam

]]> By: Eileen http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/11/03/writing-sex/#comment-5677 Eileen Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:12:35 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=2208#comment-5677 Elizabeth Benedict’s The Joy of Writing Sex was a bit of a buzzkill. It has it's good points -- one of which was the moment when I checked it out of the library and felt a bit scandalous -- and does have some good thoughts although it is depressingly based in the genre of literary fiction. About half of any given chapter is direct transcription from Benedict's interviews with successful literary authors who have written sex scenes and received acclaim for them. While it was educational to know what was going through the author's head as he wrote the scene where his young male protagonist masturbates for the first time it did not particularly help or influence my future romance writing. The best bit of advice from Benedict's book is to stop thinking about what your mother will say about it. Elizabeth Benedict’s The Joy of Writing Sex was a bit of a buzzkill. It has it’s good points — one of which was the moment when I checked it out of the library and felt a bit scandalous — and does have some good thoughts although it is depressingly based in the genre of literary fiction. About half of any given chapter is direct transcription from Benedict’s interviews with successful literary authors who have written sex scenes and received acclaim for them. While it was educational to know what was going through the author’s head as he wrote the scene where his young male protagonist masturbates for the first time it did not particularly help or influence my future romance writing.

The best bit of advice from Benedict’s book is to stop thinking about what your mother will say about it.

]]> By: D.L. http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/11/03/writing-sex/#comment-5637 D.L. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:21:11 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=2208#comment-5637 awesome and interesting post awesome and interesting post

]]> By: kim h http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/11/03/writing-sex/#comment-5632 kim h Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:12:12 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=2208#comment-5632 (Y) (W) great thanks a bunch and wtg julie cant wait (Y) (W) great thanks a bunch and wtg julie
cant wait

]]> By: Nicole S http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/11/03/writing-sex/#comment-5626 Nicole S Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:40:53 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=2208#comment-5626 Congrats Kim and Julie!! Congrats Kim and Julie!!

]]> By: Colleen http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/11/03/writing-sex/#comment-5624 Colleen Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:20:47 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=2208#comment-5624 Congrats Kim H & Julie! (*) Congrats Kim H & Julie! (*)

]]> By: Samantha Hunter http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/11/03/writing-sex/#comment-5612 Samantha Hunter Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:49:30 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=2208#comment-5612 Wow, great comments, Cari! I love that, that the sex scene is another kind of action scene! Lois, as long as we write scenes you like to read, that's all that counts. :) I guess I should wrap this up, and announce some winners! Kim h and Julie, I picked your names to win a book! So please email me at samhunter@samanthahunter.com and I'll send you any book of your choice from my back list (except for Virtually Perfect or About Last Night, since I don't have extra copies of those early books anymore). Thanks for a wonderful conversation! Sam Wow, great comments, Cari! I love that, that the sex scene is another kind of action scene!

Lois, as long as we write scenes you like to read, that’s all that counts. :)

I guess I should wrap this up, and announce some winners!

Kim h and Julie, I picked your names to win a book! So please email me at samhunter@samanthahunter.com and I’ll send you any book of your choice from my back list (except for Virtually Perfect or About Last Night, since I don’t have extra copies of those early books anymore).

Thanks for a wonderful conversation!

Sam

]]> By: Cari Quinn http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/11/03/writing-sex/#comment-5611 Cari Quinn Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:42:47 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=2208#comment-5611 Since the bulk of my upcoming release on Friday is sex, this a topic near and dear to my heart. LOL Recently one of my CPs commented that she was tired of writing so much sex, but that's never happened to me unless I was sick or really not in the right frame of mind. To me, sex scenes are just another kind of action scene...with emotion, choreography and escalating conflict. As long as the writer remembers that no two characters have sex the same way, I don't know how it can get boring. Though if it does, that may be a sign you need to go back to the drawing board...as they always say, if the writer's not into it, usually the reader won't be either. This was terrific, Sam...you touched on so many things important to remember. Sex scenes are something that can make or break a book, though the sex doesn't have to be graphic to hit all the right notes. It's all about resonating with the reader, and luckily there's as many variations on sex scenes as there are positions. ;) Great post! Since the bulk of my upcoming release on Friday is sex, this a topic near and dear to my heart. LOL

Recently one of my CPs commented that she was tired of writing so much sex, but that’s never happened to me unless I was sick or really not in the right frame of mind. To me, sex scenes are just another kind of action scene…with emotion, choreography and escalating conflict. As long as the writer remembers that no two characters have sex the same way, I don’t know how it can get boring. Though if it does, that may be a sign you need to go back to the drawing board…as they always say, if the writer’s not into it, usually the reader won’t be either.

This was terrific, Sam…you touched on so many things important to remember. Sex scenes are something that can make or break a book, though the sex doesn’t have to be graphic to hit all the right notes. It’s all about resonating with the reader, and luckily there’s as many variations on sex scenes as there are positions. ;)

Great post!

]]> By: Lois http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/11/03/writing-sex/#comment-5609 Lois Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:59:44 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=2208#comment-5609 Ah see, now I could never imagine writing a sex scene of any sort; hence why I prefer being a plain and simple reader and not writer. :) The only thing I really have to add is, at least in a longer book, I tend to like it more when the sex come in the second half of the book; guess it's a guarantee that it's built up to it or something like that. When it comes to sex scenes read. . . the one that pops up first is always those raspberries in Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas. . . :) Lois Ah see, now I could never imagine writing a sex scene of any sort; hence why I prefer being a plain and simple reader and not writer. :) The only thing I really have to add is, at least in a longer book, I tend to like it more when the sex come in the second half of the book; guess it’s a guarantee that it’s built up to it or something like that. When it comes to sex scenes read. . . the one that pops up first is always those raspberries in Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas. . . :)

Lois

]]> By: Samantha Hunter http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/11/03/writing-sex/#comment-5607 Samantha Hunter Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:11:58 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=2208#comment-5607 Hi Nicole, thanks :) I like them to talk, too... I think my characters all tend to be pretty verbal. :) Jane, I agree. :) The tension can come before or after, or both, but it has to be there. Sam Hi Nicole, thanks :) I like them to talk, too… I think my characters all tend to be pretty verbal. :)

Jane, I agree. :) The tension can come before or after, or both, but it has to be there.

Sam

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