http://sararyan.com/2009/07/how-to-write-a-sex-scene/ Novelist, comics writer, and librarian based in Portland, Oregon. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:59:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://sararyan.com/2009/07/how-to-write-a-sex-scene/#comment-7603 sara z. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:03:58 +0000 http://sararyan.com/?p=1305#comment-7603 Totally agree with you re: a few well-chosen details. In Sweethearts there's something like a sex scene, but it's not about love or romance or even lust - in that case it's really about showing how the character uses physical intimacy as an escape, similar to how she uses food. What they specifically do is very vague. Readers can make assumptions. The point is to reveal something about where the character is emotionally and how she is actually more distant from her boyfriend than she wants to be. Totally agree with you re: a few well-chosen details. In Sweethearts there’s something like a sex scene, but it’s not about love or romance or even lust – in that case it’s really about showing how the character uses physical intimacy as an escape, similar to how she uses food. What they specifically do is very vague. Readers can make assumptions. The point is to reveal something about where the character is emotionally and how she is actually more distant from her boyfriend than she wants to be.

]]> http://sararyan.com/2009/07/how-to-write-a-sex-scene/#comment-7602 Jo Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:03:09 +0000 http://sararyan.com/?p=1305#comment-7602 I think one of the best sex scenes I've read was in John Green's Looking For Alaska. Its genius is in its relevance to both the characters and the readers. Not only did the scene advance the narrative and support character development, but it was also written in such a way as to be ENTIRELY relatable to anyone who's ever been an adolescent, thereby enhancing the reader's relationship to the story. In short, it was awesome. I think one of the best sex scenes I’ve read was in John Green’s Looking For Alaska. Its genius is in its relevance to both the characters and the readers. Not only did the scene advance the narrative and support character development, but it was also written in such a way as to be ENTIRELY relatable to anyone who’s ever been an adolescent, thereby enhancing the reader’s relationship to the story. In short, it was awesome.

]]> http://sararyan.com/2009/07/how-to-write-a-sex-scene/#comment-7601 caleb Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:08:33 +0000 http://sararyan.com/?p=1305#comment-7601 My favorite sex scenes in books all deal with finding out what turns on the characters. Not physically, like Stephen King would write, but emotionally, like you do. What makes the sex or not-sex between these people special? In that sense it isn't any different from any other scene. My favorite sex scenes in books all deal with finding out what turns on the characters. Not physically, like Stephen King would write, but emotionally, like you do. What makes the sex or not-sex between these people special? In that sense it isn’t any different from any other scene.

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