What Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander Taught Me About Writing Sex Scenes: A Guest Post by Heather Anastasiu
I’m a relationship audience (and author) whom really really loves publications of most amounts of temperature. If it’s got a love label onto it, I’ll read it, everything from Christian fiction to intense BDSM erotica.
With my latest historic fiction novel, super explicit sex scenes weren’t suitable for the feel of this tale, though there clearly was intercourse, even yet in the very first chapter.
But composing it absolutely was a conundrum—how did we compose intercourse without, well, nipples, dicks, clits, women’s cores, and my personal favorite, metal people coated in velvet?
Then the sex was remembered by me scenes authored by the master, Diana Gabaldon. She does not diminish to black colored but she does not get explicit about this either. And yet i usually understand precisely what exactly is occurring. We might need to read a phrase a few times to have it. Like wait, did that mean that Claire simply took place on Jamie. (more…)