SEX!!!

[callmepatsy]

Did I get your attention?

Don't worry, it's not that kind of post, there won't be any TMI.  It's actually about writing.  Here is my confession:

I have been working on a story for about a year now, in a writing workshop setting.  I'm a good 100 pages or so into it.  Obviously if I've gone 100 pages without a mention of romance, it's not a bodice-

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[anna_in_the_sky]

I can't really tell you explicitly how to do it (oh my, double entendre already), because I'm not good at writing anything fictional, much less sex scenes.

But how about sort of letting it fade to black after the kissing and undressing has started, and then have her think about how she liked it later? It wouldn't have to be heaving bosoms and such, just her thinking it was different or exactly like she thought it would be, what she felt, how he acted...

Obviously, it's the easy way out, but, if it's not that kind of novel, your readers won't expect steamy anyway and won't mind. At least, I wouldn't.

[callmepatsy]

That's kind of what I'm leaning towards at this point, like fade out and back in the next day and she can have a kind of "huh, well, that was interesting" thought process.

[kirrea]

Bwahaha, I am amused. To be honest, I've never read any of your work (although AKO is totally on my to-read list!) so I couldn't help you with keeping it in the same style (although I'm sure you're fully capable like writing like yourself) but have you tried reading anything by romance novelists. Nora Roberts or Judith McNaught can write pretty good sex scenes without making them sleazy, while keeping appropiate to the situation. No mention of dicks or cocks or fucking, just... shafts and taking into selves. Which is a good thing with a female romance readership who don't want their reading experience marred by such crude language. I'm not entirely sure what you're looking for, but it's worth taking one of their books out of the library and checking it out.

I'd type a scene up for you, only I'd feel like a total pervert.

[kirrea]

Judith McNaught also does period romances, so if you take a look at the blurbs, you could check up which book seems to roughly be in the same era so you've got something to... refer to.

[callmepatsy]

I seem to remember reading a lot of Nora Roberts round about high school...and while I don't remember her sex scenes in particular, I'm sure they must have been pretty tasteful, because I was fairly easily offended by anything crude back then.

[bazcat89]

Perhaos you could write it in a detached kind of way. But then I'd have to know what tense the story is being written in. Plus, if it's their (or her) first time it probably won't be fabulous anyway, so you won't have to go into too much detail. Like "she winced as he moved inside her. This wasn't quite what she had expected after all of those times listening to her friends chatter about the marital act. She winced once more, but didn't let on to her discomfort; she knew that this was an inevitable part of her marriage, and parhaps it might get better. Perhaps."

I just wrote you a paragraph. Sorry. But um yes, you get what I mean.

[kirrea]

*laughs*! I love that you apologised. I am amused.

[callmepatsy]

That amused me too. Even more so that she sent me an IM that said "I inadvertently wrote you a sex scene."

[kirrea]

Bwahaha, lol @ Liz releasing the inner smut writer in her by accident XD