What I learned from writing erotica.

I wrote erotica for a long time, and I learned so much about writing from doing it. Writing erotica taught me about exploring characters, and how to portray emotional and sexual needs without seeming melodramatic or whatever. An erotic story has to have a strong conflict, and characters who have goals and desires, from the first sentence. And the more vivid you can make the scene (including the backstory) the better it works. I’ve never understood people who think one genre takes more work than another, or that we can’t learn from all sorts of writing.

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