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Let's Get It On...the Page: Writing the Sex Scene

$175.00

October 7, 14, 21, 28, November 4 and 11 CT

WRITING THE SEX SCENE.

Writing a sex scene can be delirious fun, a harrowing challenge, a literary milestone—possibly the most important part of building your short story or book. In our six weeks together, you’ll experience just about every possible emotion as you explore the erotic in different modes: comic, tender, harrowing, soul-shattering … because it really is all about the characters’ feelings, not just the mechanics. So we’ll talk about tone. Vocabulary. Metaphor. Sensory detail. How to get big emotions on the page … and when to pull back and let the reader’s imagination go to work.

October 7, 14, 21, 28, November 4 and 11 CT

WRITING THE SEX SCENE.

Writing a sex scene can be delirious fun, a harrowing challenge, a literary milestone—possibly the most important part of building your short story or book. In our six weeks together, you’ll experience just about every possible emotion as you explore the erotic in different modes: comic, tender, harrowing, soul-shattering … because it really is all about the characters’ feelings, not just the mechanics. So we’ll talk about tone. Vocabulary. Metaphor. Sensory detail. How to get big emotions on the page … and when to pull back and let the reader’s imagination go to work.

About Susann:

Susann Cokal’s novels include Mirabilis, Mermaid Moon, and Breath and Bones. Her Kingdom of Little Wounds won several national awards, including a Michael L. Printz Honor from the American Library Association and a place on many best-of lists for the year. Her prize-winning shorter work has appeared in magazines such as Cincinnati Review, Electric Lit, Enchanted Living, Hunger Mountain, Prairie Schooner, Gargoyle, and The New York Times Book Review.  A former tenured professor of creative writing and modern literature, she is now an editor and freelancer who has written about sex (and emotions) in a wide variety of venues: novels, literary magazines, men’s magazines, pop culture encyclopedias, academic scholarship, and satire. She lives physically in a creaky old Virginia farmhouse and ethereally at susanncokal.com.