{"id":8475,"date":"2010-10-05T09:57:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T08:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog"},"modified":"2010-10-05T11:54:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T10:54:59","slug":"smut-essay-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/junofanfic\/essays\/smut-essay\/smut-essay-2","title":{"rendered":"The Big Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>II. The Big Secret<\/h3>\n<p>If there is one big secret to writing successful sex scenes, it is simply this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>good writing is good writing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That  means all the &#8216;rules&#8217;, 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 of effort and much practice.<\/p>\n<h3>Reading recommendations:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"offsite link to Amazon.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Joy-Writing-Sex-Fiction-Writers\/dp\/0805069933\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1224053584&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;The Joy of Writing Sex&#8217;by Elizabeth Benedict<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"offsite link to Amazon.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Write-Dirty-Story-Publishing\/dp\/0743226232\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1224053649&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;How to Write a Dirty Story: Reading, Writing, and Publishing Erotica&#8217; by Susie Bright<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"offsite link to Amazon.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Getting-Words-Right-Improve-Writing\/dp\/158297358X\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1224053699&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Getting the Words Right&#8217; by Theodore A. Rees Cheney <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"offsite link to Amazon.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Writing-Tools-Essential-Strategies-Writer\/dp\/0316014990\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1224053734&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Writing Tools&#8217; by Roy Peter Clark<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8216;rules&#8217;, all the ideas about what makes a really great scene, also &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/junofanfic\/essays\/smut-essay\/smut-essay-2\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"parent":8465,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8475","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8522,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8475\/revisions\/8522"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}