Writing Explicitly

This post was originally written for Kate Elliott's blog.



I think there are several keys to writing good explicit sex scenes. The first is to give up any pretense of hiding yourself. You can't hide from the reader, and you most especially can't hide from yourself.

By the way, it doesn't matter if you've never done the thing you're writing about and never intend to do it. What matters is what you think and feel about the action you're depicting. Writing, in some ways, works on the brain ...