The Craft of Writing (Actually) Good Sex Scenes

Yael van der Wouden at Literary Hub:

For a few years now I’ve been teaching a class on erotic writing. Most of it follows the same structure of any creative-writing class—we discuss character and motivation—but the content, you can imagine, takes on a different slant.

It’s both a fun and hard class to teach; hard because the students are immediately thrown into vulnerability, immediately figuring out how much of themselves they’re willing lay bare before strangers, and fun in realizing that everyone else in the class is embarrassed in exactly the same way, and that everyone is always, always, a little bit of a freak.

A few interesting observations: good sex in the bedroom does not automatically make for good sex on paper…

More here.