Terry Shames's Blog: 7 Criminal Minds, page 20

Al Important Setting

 

Terry here with our question of the week- How important is setting in your books? Do you write settings that you’ve never visited, and how do you go about this, if so? Give an example or two of setting in your own work and say how these scenes enhance the plot or create mood. 

 I’m not sure even character is more important than setting. But by setting I don’t mean just location. I mean the weather, the physical elements of the scene, the atmosphere, and the response of the characters to all th...

Setting the Mood

How important is setting in your books? Do you write settings that you’ve never visited, and how do you go about this, if so? Give an example or two of setting in your own work and say how these scenes enhance the plot or create mood.

Brenda here.

Setting is essentially another character, especially in crime fiction. In my case, I use the Canadian landscape as the backdrop for my stories, because I know it intimately. It's much easier to create mood and describe the locations if I've visited the p...

*Insert Sex Scene Here* By Poppy Gee

 Love isin the air. How do you feel about writing sex scenes in crime fiction? Give asample of your favourite love or romance scene from your own work and tell usyour method for handling these relationships.

I hate writing sex scenes. They’re so embarrassing to write,especially since my sisters told me that whenever they read a sex scene in mybooks, they can’t help imagining I’m the character. That gives me writer's block.

In general, I feel like Australian writers are tentative intheir ap...

Stayin' Jigless, by Catriona

Love is in the air.How do you feel about writing sex scenes in crime fiction? Give a sample ofyour favorite love or romance scene from your own work and tell us your methodfor handling these relationships.

I have written sex scenes. Four of them, to be precise. In the first one, the protagonist imagined her mother, retching with disgust, and she had to stop. The second sex scene was in the same book and this time the mother's image stayed away and the sex got completed but it was disappointing...

Sex? I'll pass. by Eric Beetner

 Love is in the air. How do you feel about writing sex scenes in crime fiction?

My books have quite a lot of action, violence, suspense. What they don’t have a lot of is sex or even romance, really. 

Not that I intentionally write chaste books, but it just sort of happened that way. Perhaps it stems from the one time I did try it and how I feel about it now. In an early novel I included a sex scene. I still stand by that it was true to the characters, advanced the plot and wasn’t extraneous or mer...

A Time for Andirons

Love is in the air.How do you feel about writing sex scenes in crime fiction? Give a sample ofyour favorite love or romance scene from your own work and tell us your methodfor handling these relationships.

 

I don’t like writingsex scenes. Blame it on men are from Mars, and women are from Venus. Womenbaffle men, and men amuse and frustrate women. No wonder men like Harry Burnsstared at the ceiling wondering how long he has to hold her before he can leaveto clean his andirons. Confession: ...

The Love Scene by Angela Crook

 

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Love is in the air. How doyou feel about writing sex scenes in crime fiction?

 

As I sit here writing thisblog, exactly one week ahead of Loveapalooza, aka Valentine Day, the lyricsfrom “The Love Scene,” an R&B classic, by the criminally underrated singer,Joe, is running through my mind on repeat. “Let’s make a love scene,” he croons. Pleading with some lucky lady ashe stares into the camera, sex beaming from his eyes. By the end of the song,I’m going to go out on a limb and sa...

Dreaming of rhinos - by Harini Nagendra

February can be a bleak month. How do you overcome periods of lethargy and re-energize yourself creatively and otherwise? 

This has been an especially bleak February - I'm recovering from an awful cough, and I passed it onto my mother - who is now recovering from a bad bout of pneumonia. Not fun.  

Here in Bangalore, it usually gets warm by early February, which is when we begin to see some of the earliest signs of spring - but it's been unusually cold this year, and the chill persists. The effect...

Writing in the Nude from James W. Ziskin

February can be a bleak month. How do you overcome periods of lethargy and re-energize yourself creatively and otherwise? 

I love bleak weather. For writing, moods inspire, and what provides instant mood better than weather? Maybe music? Okay, for inspiration I also use music.

I would argue that the winter months are better for writing than other times of the year, and not just because we find ourselves trapped inside with nothing better to do. We could go skiing or shovel the walk, after all. No,...

The perfect weather for writing

February can be a bleak month. How do you overcome periods of

lethargy and re-energize yourself creatively and otherwise?

by Dietrich

The cold months might just be the best time for writing, the bleak of

winter driving me indoors and to my desk, while the nicer weather’s

more likely to tempt me outdoors with all of its balmy distractions.

Personally, I like the changing seasons and I try to make peace with

whatever it’s doing out there, even when it’s cold and wet for long

stretches. Inside, it’s always...