07-29-2006, 12:44 PM
cboy Wrote:What I'm looking for is a way to put the love in "lovemaking". I want the sex scene to look like the characters are truly in love, not having a wild quickie. I want my stories to fall under the romance category, not the hentai category.
P.S. Hey Nate, could you give me the author and title of that book you're talking about. It sounds like something I could really use.
The inclusion of sex, particularly in fan-fiction, will tend to drive it into the hentai category, whether it is s wank fic or simply a good story that has sex in it. However that does not mean they cannot also be a romantic story as well as having hentai content. I assume you mean more that you want stories where the sex is more character drive then sex drive, though, so here is a link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805069933/103-0881045-0073425?v=glance&n=283155
"The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers" by Elizabeth Benedict. I felt embarassed about wanting to add this book to my collection at first, and ended up perusing it in a private area of my local Barnes & Noble before settling on indeed buying it. I was afraid it was going to emphasize ways to write the mechanics of sex to be more appealing at first, but it really emphasizes that sex is part of a story, and the emotional involvement with the story should determine how you write a sex scene. My advice above is not explicitly in the book in that particular fashion, but most of it is derived from what I learned in the book.
Characters drive a story but it doesn't revolve around them, and sex, whether integral or gratuitous, is simply one event that is simply another stop along the highway of your story. How they associate with that event is how you should write it.