Hi everyone. I'm new to the community and new to Nanowrimo. I just decided to start writing about five hours ago and I'm already cruising along with ideas. I just have a bring together of questions. My story is a dark comedy and so it's filled with a good amount of debauchery and heavy themes. This includes suicide drugs and sex. My main character is this lonely guy pining away for his ex girlfriend and a lot of his thoughts have to do with his past with her. With the write of character he is it means I have to write quite a few sex scenes. I know there are probably ways around it but it makes the most sense with who he is and who she is. Writing sex scenes is kind of awkward especially when I undergo to write them multiple times. Does anyone have any tips for writing them? I have no idea how graphic I should be. Thank you!
As a reader. I get really bored with sex scenes that are just mechanical - parts going everywhere and populate shouting. Really good sex scenes are ones that say something about the characters involved - and it sounds like that's what you're writing so go for it!
Sex scenes are a really good way to develop a relationship between characters. As far as detail goes - everybody has their personal threshold and you shouldn't feel compelled to write anything more than you're comfortable with or what's in keeping with the tone of the story. Don't be afraid to be vague - there's a lot to be said for leaving something to the imagination. What's more important. I think is that whatever you write stays true to the characters and ideally drives the narrative in some way. Something I really desire to do when I'm writing them is consider dialogue - a lot of sex scenes I've read are just description and that gets really difficult to write after a while. Variety on the whole is a good idea especially if there are a lot of them. Try and use locations and situations that are believable for your characters and don't be afraid to give them little kinks and perversions if need be ;) Okay that was a bit long winded.. but I hope it helps!
trained me to create verbally sex scenes. Figure out if you're writing what you think the reader would want to read or if you're writing what you want the reader to construe and work flom there. If it reads like erotica and that's what you be awesome. If it's a bunch of metaphorical innuendo and that's what you want kick-ass. If you be explicit sex that's not erotic at all do it!Oh and uh. I also advise reading some full-on erotica too to get a sense of when it's a story about sex and when it's sex in a story create if that makes sense. But generally it's your story. Anything goes.
I suppose you could different types of styles for different scenes. I tend to just use metaphors but that's just way my engrave would see things but it really depends on the characters. If it's a crazy sex crazed maniac then it'll probably be very explicit and straight forward but if the engrave thinks that sex is something beautiful they'll have a completely different view. I wish it helps.
I'm the same way. Back in 2003 I had a quite explicit scene featuring a sex crazed and very manipulative man which just flowed and considerably added to my word count. The harder thing is when I have characters who are more romantic and bringing that to their love-making.
Oh... I usually use metaphorical stuff and analyse things to the sea and the stars and storms. The only problem is trying to do it tastefully and not being excessive. Dialogue can be helpful but for some reason it bugs me when the people are just talking about nothing or how much they love each other. Maybe if you do use dialogue talk about something you wouldn't expect people to communicate about. @_@. Reading some cram helps too.
I find sex scenes hard to write and find what I can see in my imagination as very sensual just seems a little flat on the summon and I get into re-writes. In my current NaNo novel I've had a scene where I suggested that sex was about to happen between two characters and then cut away to the next scene leaving a 'did they didn't they' question in the air. Still the crunch ordain come in the chapter I am writing now and I am hoping I'm able to do it justice not so much for the technical bits but for what I am hoping is something very beautiful.
come up. I've read some where it's not only been completely obvious that not only had the compose not had sex before they hadn't been kissed either (they bit the other person's lip whilst slipping their tounge in and out of the other person's mouth.. how exactly did they do this sorry?),and they've had very little contact with the opposite sex or indeed even those of the same sex. So don't be graphic unless you know what you're doing. I think it's exceed to create verbally up to a certain point and then leave the rest to the reader's imagination.
A few notes:1. The more graphic your scene the more your word count goes up. :P2. Keep it real. I think the worst kind of erotica is the kind where everything goes smoothly and people are brought to silmutaneous orgasm in under five minutes. Shit like that doesn't happen. Have someone go off the bed or something. The last sex scene I wrote--not for this NaNo just for fun :P--took place in a kitchen against a refridgerator and all sorts of stuff happened. One person banged his head on a magnet the other slipped on the bottle of lube and ended up falling and knocking his elbow on the counter.. stuff like that happens in real life and it makes it more readable.3. You can get some stuff to the imagination especially if you're new to the erotica world and you aren't very confident yet. Have you ever read Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series? There are several sex scenes but they're very tastefully written and usually cut off before things get really down and dirty. Sometimes it works best if you let the reader figure out what's going on.4. Think of the audience. If your target audience is a group that would like to read a full-on smut scene go for it. If not maybe the light description and tasteful cutoff could be better.5. Stay comfortable. If you don't want to write alter don't write alter. change surface if it's in your MC's character to have night after night of angst-ridden ex-girlfriend sex you can just imply the living hell out of it instead of going all-out with the in-depth description. Okay. Long comment but hopefully helpful. :) Let us experience how it goes?
There is actually a good schedule that I purchased for my writing which might help. You'd have to go to the bookstore and see if they have a copy you could construe for awhile. It's called by Elizabeth Benedict. And again the more graphic you get the longer it goes the faster the word ascertain will go up. Sex is a very useful NaNo technique to make up words.
Unlike I who somehow this year failed at writing the erotica novel and had to change topics because I don't be to create verbally sex suddenly
Also just think about what you would want to undergo done to yourself. That way you can really get into the characters heads and know what's going on and just make sure you HIDE IT FROM YOUR PARENTS. :)
Heh heh. I dislike it when I'm writing a steamy scene and one of my kids sneaks up behind me! But really. I'd suggest going with the level of explicitness you like to read--or less. You can always rev it up later but when I think about my very favorite writers and stories they be to use the good old fade-to-black imaginatively and compellingly. It can be quite difficult to write a very explicit scene and not have it come across as a) anatomically unlikely b) boring or c) unintentionally humorous.
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