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Fiction. Right so I'm compiling my thoughts and feels on things before I actually start, seriously, outlining my characters and my question to you guys is this:
How do you feel about sex in fiction?
Personally, I'm not against it but I'm against sex being the only key plot point. I don't particularly want to write a romance novel, on one hand but on another I want a realistic adult world with the many trials and tribulations of adult life...and that does include sex. After puberty it seems to me that most people are working their asses off for one basic need, sex. I don't want a key plot point to be sex but I want it to be a key factor in a character's personality. A sexualized creature without that being all that this character's life is about.
So I ask you good people (because you all write much better porn than I could ever dream of) how do you find the balance and how do you find a way to make porn more than what it is?
I apologize if it seems like I am being vague and still wanting answers. By now you guys know I fail at coherent thought XD
How do you feel about sex in fiction?
Personally, I'm not against it but I'm against sex being the only key plot point. I don't particularly want to write a romance novel, on one hand but on another I want a realistic adult world with the many trials and tribulations of adult life...and that does include sex. After puberty it seems to me that most people are working their asses off for one basic need, sex. I don't want a key plot point to be sex but I want it to be a key factor in a character's personality. A sexualized creature without that being all that this character's life is about.
So I ask you good people (because you all write much better porn than I could ever dream of) how do you find the balance and how do you find a way to make porn more than what it is?
I apologize if it seems like I am being vague and still wanting answers. By now you guys know I fail at coherent thought XD
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Date: 2012-11-07 07:04 pm (UTC)From:If you're writing a novel that is not a romance, then by all means include sex, but keep the description brief. Don't exclude it altogether if it fits the story, but spend more time and effort on what is going on in her life, which may happen to include some sex, rather than spending a couple of pages on what happened that week, and then ten pages of porn, if you see what I mean.
It's also really important that the reader gets why the character is having sex. Are they having a deep and meaningful exchange with a long-term partner? Explain how that feels. Are they scratching an itch? Is it someone they know, or a bar pickup? What's their criteria for picking their partner?
Don't know if that really helps, but.
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