SF Peninsula (In-Person): Writing Intimacy Scenes: Avoiding the Corny, the Porn-y, and the Clinical When Writing Sex

Whatever your writing genre, from sweet romance to erotica, from Regency Romance to erotic romantic suspense, sexual, or at least romantic, intimacy between your characters is likely going to occur. Whether it’s a chaste kiss in a Victorian garden or a one-night stand between lovers who met on a train, knowing how to choose and employ your writerly tools is vital to making those intimate moments on the page bring the response you want from your readers.

In this seminar we will explore:

• Intimacy vocabulary according to genre, style, and personal sensibilitie

• Intimacy scenes in memoir, special considerations

• Character and story as keys in determining tone of intimacy scenes