So, today was the first of my monthy ERWA Blog posts. It may very well be my last when my co-bloggers are confronted with 2000 words of density. We’ll see.
Anyway, I’ve been blogging a lot lately about the lack of well-written or arousing sex scenes in literary fiction, and musing over the possible reasons writers might purposefully chose to represent sex this way. The ERWA post goes on look in depth at what, according to reader-response theorists is actually taking place in the mind of readers as they read. And, taking that into account, some strategies for triggering lived as opposed to mediate sexual memories in the reader’s mind.
Please hop over and have a read: Writing Erotic: lived vs mediated experience
Also, while you’re there, read Ashley Lister’s very good practical post on writing exercises. It’s excellent!
Karen M. Monig In her Highlander series, writes incredible erotica.
Yes, she does. But she writes genre fiction. There is a lot of incredibly good erotic passages written by genre writers.
1. Louise has a cool last name.
2. As one of your co-bloggers, I look forward to this, and many ERWA blogs to come from Remittance Girl. Just keep doing that blog voodoo that you do so well…