Let's Get It On...the Page: Writing the Sex Scene
Let's Get It On...the Page: Writing the Sex Scene
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 book. In six weeks, 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 emotion 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 several best-of lists for the year. Her sometimes prizewinning shorter work has appeared in dozens of literary magazines, and she has published about sex (and emotions) there and in pop culture encyclopedias, men’s magazines, and academic scholarship.
