…or story with your sex? Sometimes too much sex does not fit a story. Yes. Shock. Horror. If the hero and heroine are not fucking like bunnies in the most bizarre ways then the story can’t be much good can it? Ah, no, that would be wrong. Sex is good but a plot is golden I think it’s much harder to write a story with plot and less sex than a sexed up story with two/three/57sexual partners who have been bonking each other silly and you’re reading it and thinking what they hell is this story about other than sex and is anyone going to be able to walk straight tomorrow? Yes, my hand goes up. I have written books with a high sexual content. They are what the realistic call in the business ‘fuck books’ and not great literature as the unrealistic is-my-book-number-one-please-vote-for-me-or-die would call them.
Yes, yes, yes, sex in books is fantasy and generally bizarre and improbable and we like to wonder what he will do to her next and are his friends going to join in and what’s that the tattooed one carrying in his hand and is it legal but who cares as long as there is enough batteries. Fantasy. It’s wondrous. Reality. I would bet my arse, and I have a lot of arse to bet so it’s a sure thing, that 97.5% of readers want to read about love and emotion. Sure, sex completes those feelings. While you can be in love forever, I doubt you can be in sex forever…but what do I know?
Monday, 24 October 2011
Sex with your story…
Posted by Unknown at 4:54 am
Labels: Amarinda Jones, Anny Cook, Berengaria Brown, books, love, plot, Sandra Cox, sex
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Must admit I like love and a story with my sex. Yeah, a heavy helping of sex sometimes, but it has to mean something besides a physical action/reaction.
If a sexy book is going to be read and treasured for the future that has to be first and foremost A GOOD BOOK! Good characters, good setting, good plot - all the essentials.
The difference between a good romance and a good sexy romance is only in the love the author brings to portraying the sex. That is, not the amount of sex but the quality of the description.
I checked one of my sexy books recently and found there were 6 explicit sex scenes in a 100,000 word novel. So - one every 15,000 words or so. A lot of modern books are not even long enough for one scene...
Yeees! Plot is paramount. Sex is never the focus of our stories, merely the expression of love between the hero and heroine. As I told Emma recently, we don't write sex stories. We write stories -- and we just happen to leave the bedroom door open.
I think you can overdue anything to the point it gets monotonous, sex, violence, cursing, shopping, whatever, there's got to be just enough there to tantalize. Just my thoughts.
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