III. ‘Wham, Bam, Thank You, Ma’am!’ – A Quickie for Impatient Writers To start you off, a quick’n’dirty recipe for better smut scenes built on a slogan that is hopefully easy to remember. 1. ‘Wham’ Aragorn slams himself into his willing wife-while racing over the plains of Rohan on the back of a Meara-horse. At […]

II. The Big Secret If there is one big secret to writing successful sex scenes, it is simply this: good writing is good writing. That means all the ‘rules’, all the ideas about what makes a really great scene, also apply to sex scenes. There is no short cut. Good writing needs an awful lot […]

How to Write Great Smut in Ten Easy Steps? – Part 1 I. Introduction So you want to learn how to write intense erotic scenes that advance the plot and enhance the characterisation of your protagonists in masterful prose? In ten easy steps? You know what? So do I! Sadly, I haven’t been able to […]

… Or: How to Write Great Smut in Ten Easy Steps? This essay was posted as part of the big SMUT writing workshop at the online writers’ workshop “There and Back Again (And How to Get There in the First Place)” over on LiveJournal. If you’re interested in reading the many interesting discussions sparked by […]