How to Write Sex Scenes Information

How to Write Sex Scenes by Kris Kneen is an in-depth online writing course designed to help authors confidently and skillfully write compelling sex scenes for fiction and non-fiction.

Everything you need to know to write compelling sex scenes in fiction and non-fiction

Whether you want to add a steamy love scene to your novel, short stories or memoir, or you’re looking to write erotica, this online writing course will help you develop the skills needed to craft hot love scenes. Sex is an important part of our lives, and exploring the sexual desires of characters provides insights into their most secret inner-lives.

In this three-hour course, you will:

• face any fears you might have about writing sex scenes, erotica or literotica
• unpack the language of sex through close readings and exercises
• develop a writing practice through a series of generative exercises

This course is designed for all types of writers, both fiction and non-fiction. Through a series of lessons, examples and practical exercises, you’ll gain new insights into writing sex scenes.

What You’ll Learn In How to Write Sex Scenes?

Introduction

• Welcome (3:42)
• Meet Your Tutor (5:02)

Module 1: Getting Started

• The Value of Sex
• Hidden Moments, Hidden Places
• Exercise: Changing the Relationship
• Developing a Sex-Writing Practice (3:32)
• Exercise: Making a Commitment
• Lust in the Time of Coronavirus (39:02)

Module 2: Going Deeper

• Exercise: Life Drawing
• Naked in Public (1:16)
• Exercise: Facing Your Fears
• Unconventional Bodies (1:47)
• Exercise: Writing Unconventional Bodies
• Reading: An Uncertain Grace (8:41)
• Reading: Iso Weight, from Lust in the Time of Coronavirus (15:24)

Module 3: Language, Cliches and the Senses

• Language of Sex (3:02)
• Close Readings
• Exercise: Finding Your Guides
• Exercise: The Language of Sex
• The Problem of Cliches (2:11)
• The Five Senses
• Exercise: Writing the Five Senses
• Finishing up

What’s Next?

• What’s Next?
• Course Evaluation Survey

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