Not sure how to tackle sex scenes in your writing?
Sex scenes can be great or excruciatingly bad.
They’re tricky to do well – and boy, we know bad sex scenes when we see them!
Sexual behaviour is such a big and important part of human experience – so it belongs in literature - but why is sex so hard to write?
Join us for How To Write Sex Scenes and take your passionate prose from cringy to captivating.
This informative half day workshop explores what sex scenes should and shouldn’t do, digs into the how and why of sex scenes and how they enhance our understanding of characters and power dynamics.
Join tutor Anne Kennedy to dissect what makes a good sex scene – and investigate why terrible sex scenes just don’t work.
We’ll try out some writing exercises of our own – and help you conclude what type of sex scenes you want to use in your work.
Even if your story doesn’t call for sex scenes specifically this is one writing skill that is useful to have in your back pocket
You will learn:
• What works and what doesn’t i.e. the difference between good and bad
• How to avoid sex and romance cliches.
• The biggest mistakes you can make in your sex scenes
• How to use point of view in your sex scenes
• What else a sex scene must do – aside from the obvious
• The difference between sex and romance in your sex scenes
• How to use setting in your sex scenes.
And you can join us online from anywhere! We will live stream on Zoom.
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ABOUT TUTOR: Anne Kennedy
Anne is an Auckland poet, fiction writer, screenplay editor and teacher, having taught at the University of Hawai`i and Manukau Institute of Technology. Her most recently published books are Moth Hour (AUP) and The Ice Shelf (VUP).
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