Published by deborah.woehr on 13 Jan 2006 at 10:50 am
The Joy of Writing Sex, by Elizabeth Benedict
I read this book cover to cover and thoroughly enjoyed it. Ms. Benedict not only gives examples of erotic scenes and different scenarios like ‘the first time’ and ‘adultery,’ but gives good pointers on how to write each of them. She teaches you how to get inside your characters’ heads and realize their backgrounds, beliefs, anxieties, etc. before writing The Big Scene. It is important that you know your characters because if you don’t, you’ll produce nothing but empty pornography. Get this book if you want to write about quality sex.
alisonkent.com » Blog Archive » More on the CIG on 15 Jan 2006 at 8:01 am #
[...] I ran across this post yesterday where Deborah Woehr talks about The Joy of Writing Sex, by Elizabeth Benedict from 1996. I spent a moment cringing when I read her comments: I read this book cover to cover and thoroughly enjoyed it. Ms. Benedict not only gives examples of erotic scenes and different scenarios like ‘the first time’ and ‘adultery,’ but gives good pointers on how to write each of them. She teaches you how to get inside your characters’ heads and realize their backgrounds, beliefs, anxieties, etc. before writing The Big Scene. It is important that you know your characters because if you don’t, you’ll produce nothing but empty pornography. Get this book if you want to write about quality sex. [...]