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Tue, Apr 17 2012 13:11:33

M/M Romance Authors: Writing a Sex Scene

Z.A. Maxfield, Marie Sexton, Damon Suede and Heidi Cullinan gave a session at Romantic Times in Chicago about writing sex scenes.

  1. Crowded lively session on writing realistic sex scenes w ZA Maxfield, Heidi Cullinan, Marie Sexton, Damon Suede http://pic.twitter.com/xKTjCUnx
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    Fri, Apr 13 2012 08:33:44
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    "Sex scenes are not just organs and orifices and moving them around. Sex scenes can be licking envelopes, or a long kiss." -Damon Suede
    Fri, Apr 13 2012 08:37:33
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    "People do not occupy the same role all the time. If they do, it is cliche and caricature" - ZA Maxfield
    Fri, Apr 13 2012 08:38:26
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    "The reason you take characters into bedroom is bc there are things that can't be revealed anywhere else." ZA Maxfield
    Fri, Apr 13 2012 08:40:50
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    " that's why it's called 'knowing' in the bible." -Damon Suede
    Fri, Apr 13 2012 08:41:31
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    "You are not writing a sex scene. You are writing intimacy that reveals the character." -ZA Maxfield
    Fri, Apr 13 2012 08:42:13
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    Solution: get up and move around. If you do not know where they are, the reader absolutely does not. - Damon Suede
    Fri, Apr 13 2012 08:46:11
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    Question: how do you describe the physical action? SUEDE: Describing the spaces they are in while they're making the mambo.
    Fri, Apr 13 2012 08:46:12
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    Q how to balance between his finglefngle was in her yankerstein and an erotic scene (clinical vs descriptive)
    Fri, Apr 13 2012 08:47:38
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    Damon Suede: read the scene backwards so you put the puzzle together in reverse. Then you find if someone took pants off twice.
    Fri, Apr 13 2012 08:48:05
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    Q: what inspired you to write m/m romance? ZA Maxfield came from yaoi. Heidi C kept trying to write het and never got it quite right.
    Fri, Apr 13 2012 08:51:13
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    Damon Suede ( I love this name like holy damn) cites Agatha Christie: put something new on every page.
    Fri, Apr 13 2012 08:52:34
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    Heidi Cullinan also cites writers of m/m who feel or live in state of otherness, and m/m reflects that
    Fri, Apr 13 2012 08:54:07
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    You can avoid sex scene monotony individual characters. "No one in this room has the same sex. Neither do characters."
    Fri, Apr 13 2012 08:55:43
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    Heidi Cullinan is reading a Katie Hawthorne book. Damon Suede: Bonnie Dee
    Fri, Apr 13 2012 08:56:47
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    How do you differentiate when pronoun is always "he?" Pov, and use of verbs. Verbs are action of character. Then read scene backwards.
    Fri, Apr 13 2012 08:58:45
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    Are there lines you do not cross? If you are honoring the character, you can't cross a line that they would not cross. - Suede
    Fri, Apr 13 2012 08:59:51
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    Marie Sexton came from fantasy, frustrated with heroine archetypes, then found M/M.
    Fri, Apr 13 2012 09:02:27
  19. Authors are mobbed by fans and questions. http://pic.twitter.com/9OwhFVEU
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    Fri, Apr 13 2012 09:06:02
  20. Marie Sexton and Heidi Cullinan http://pic.twitter.com/A5ACASQt
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    Fri, Apr 13 2012 09:57:37

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