Comments on: The Thing About Writing Sex Scenes http://storyfix.com/the-thing-about-writing-sex-scenes Novel Writing, Screenwriting and Storytelling Tips & Fundamentals Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:42:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Ross Harvey http://storyfix.com/the-thing-about-writing-sex-scenes/comment-page-1#comment-357 John Ross Harvey Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:12:43 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=534#comment-357 I have started to write some romantic comedies. My usual fare is traffic and life rants, so the romance is a departure. Since I had a woman go over my 1st draft, she adored it. I used her insight for a better sex scene, she actually just made suggestion on the primary couple, and not the fling mistake. My first effort is under consideration of a new publisher that carries romance and erotica, I certainly wouldn't consider it porn, but its not psyche either, its flesh. So far I tend to write novella length (screenplay size) but I think I'm getting better at it. A month ago if you asked me if I'd write this I'd probably have said:"Why?" All in all a great article, I will try to explore a psyche driven scene in my next crack at this. I have started to write some romantic comedies. My usual fare is traffic and life rants, so the romance is a departure. Since I had a woman go over my 1st draft, she adored it. I used her insight for a better sex scene, she actually just made suggestion on the primary couple, and not the fling mistake. My first effort is under consideration of a new publisher that carries romance and erotica, I certainly wouldn’t consider it porn, but its not psyche either, its flesh.
So far I tend to write novella length (screenplay size) but I think I’m getting better at it. A month ago if you asked me if I’d write this I’d probably have said:”Why?”
All in all a great article, I will try to explore a psyche driven scene in my next crack at this.

]]> By: janice http://storyfix.com/the-thing-about-writing-sex-scenes/comment-page-1#comment-127 janice Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:25:24 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=534#comment-127 "Set it up and then close the bedroom door. Leave your reader in a voyeuristic state of denial, forcing them to play the scene out for themselves." Finally - someone who's figured out it's more powerful! Oh, if only screenplays would go back to doing this too! I inherited a whole load of Nora Roberts books and enjoyed a few but then got bored. I decided to read the rest as research after I realised there were blatant patterns in them. She writes well to a certain extent, but oh how those endless sex scenes bore me. Whenever my husband sees me rolling my eyes and turning two or three pages at a time he asks "Nibbling started?" "Yup," I reply. "I've just skipped to the coffee." Love the blog, Larry. So much <i>good sense</i>! “Set it up and then close the bedroom door. Leave your reader in a voyeuristic state of denial, forcing them to play the scene out for themselves.” Finally – someone who’s figured out it’s more powerful! Oh, if only screenplays would go back to doing this too!

I inherited a whole load of Nora Roberts books and enjoyed a few but then got bored. I decided to read the rest as research after I realised there were blatant patterns in them. She writes well to a certain extent, but oh how those endless sex scenes bore me. Whenever my husband sees me rolling my eyes and turning two or three pages at a time he asks “Nibbling started?” “Yup,” I reply. “I’ve just skipped to the coffee.”

Love the blog, Larry. So much good sense!

]]> By: Jo Barrett http://storyfix.com/the-thing-about-writing-sex-scenes/comment-page-1#comment-109 Jo Barrett Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:18:50 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=534#comment-109 I cannot begin to tell you how RIGHT you are! I truly hate it when I pick up a book in which I know the author to be wonderful and find mindless mechanical bed bunnies all through it. I have to assume that in cases such as this it's the publishing house that has pressed for more sex, thinking that's what the public wants, when they seem to have missed the point entirely. I know my writing is no where near the erotic mark, my grandmother still reads my work =), but what's the point of a love scene if it doesn't move the story forward? Thank you so much for your clear and concise explanation! Maybe some day their eyes will be opened. I cannot begin to tell you how RIGHT you are! I truly hate it when I pick up a book in which I know the author to be wonderful and find mindless mechanical bed bunnies all through it. I have to assume that in cases such as this it’s the publishing house that has pressed for more sex, thinking that’s what the public wants, when they seem to have missed the point entirely. I know my writing is no where near the erotic mark, my grandmother still reads my work =), but what’s the point of a love scene if it doesn’t move the story forward?
Thank you so much for your clear and concise explanation! Maybe some day their eyes will be opened.

]]> By: Nicki Greenwood http://storyfix.com/the-thing-about-writing-sex-scenes/comment-page-1#comment-106 Nicki Greenwood Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:24:28 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=534#comment-106 What a great article! Thanks for sharing. Lots of writers have a hard time with finding that line between the genres, and this puts it in a simple context. Thanks again! What a great article! Thanks for sharing. Lots of writers have a hard time with finding that line between the genres, and this puts it in a simple context. Thanks again!

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