{"id":8499,"date":"2010-10-05T11:12:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T10:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog"},"modified":"2011-11-03T15:13:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T14:13:27","slug":"smut-essay-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/junofanfic\/essays\/smut-essay\/smut-essay-7","title":{"rendered":"Find Your Balance!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>VII. &#8216;I&#8217;m coming!&#8217; vs. &#8216;Let go!&#8217;\u00e2\u20ac\u201dFind your balance!<\/h3>\n<p>But even if you&#8217;ve thought of all the things we&#8217;ve mentioned so far&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>if you know the purpose of your sex scene<\/li>\n<li>if you have a good grip on your POV and your characters<\/li>\n<li>if you&#8217;ve come up with realistic sex acts at the core of the scene<\/li>\n<li>if you use sensuous language to describe your scene<\/li>\n<li>if you include sensations and emotions<\/li>\n<li>if your characters feel and talk like real people<\/li>\n<li>if you&#8217;ve paid attention to your word choice, style and tone and avoided clich\u00c3\u00a9s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;the scene can still fail.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, what makes a scene really work, is balance.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s really tricky when applied to an act that evolution or God (or both) have turned into a procedure that is <em>by nature <\/em>horribly clich\u00c3\u00a9d and over the top.<sup>[1]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Therefore it&#8217;s highly unlikely that you&#8217;ll achieve that perfect balance and the golden ratio of writing sex scenes in your first draft. Just like any other scene, a sex scene needs to be revised and edited or beta-read. More than once.<\/p>\n<h3>TIP!<\/h3>\n<p>Revision will help you find your balance.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Re-read and revise sex scenes just like any other scenes.<\/li>\n<li>Use editors\/proofreaders and beta-readers for sex scenes just like for any other scenes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Reading recommendations:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"offsite link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pamcrooks.com\/writers_tips.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Writing Love Scenes&#8217;<\/a> by Marie Huggins<\/li>\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=1224066614&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;The Joy of Writing Sex&#8217;<\/a> by Elizabeth Benedict<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and as consolation: Have a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaryreview.co.uk\/badsex.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Awards&#8217;<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201deven big name authors can fail!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup>[1] <\/sup>It has to be. If sex wasn&#8217;t so terribly important to the majority of humankind, there wouldn&#8217;t BE a humankind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VII. &#8216;I&#8217;m coming!&#8217; vs. &#8216;Let go!&#8217;\u00e2\u20ac\u201dFind your balance! But even if you&#8217;ve thought of all the things we&#8217;ve mentioned so far&#8230; if you know the purpose of your sex scene if you have a good grip on your POV and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/junofanfic\/essays\/smut-essay\/smut-essay-7\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"parent":8465,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8499","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8499","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=8499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9104,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8499\/revisions\/9104"}],"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=8499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}