Another Writing Related Book to Give Away
Feb. 4th, 2016 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI have another writing book that I’m willing to give away. I haven’t read this one since before Cordelia was born, so I'm hazy on the details beyond what I can get from opening it here and there now.
The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers by Elizabeth Benedict. 1996.
This book is not aimed at writers of romance or erotica, and the author is a little snotty about sex scenes that are meant to be hot just for the sake of being hot. There’s very little about mechanics and a good bit about focusing on the things that matter to the characters and way that bad sex can make a good story or that things that aren’t overtly sexual can be sexual in practice.
There are a lot of short sections written by other people, mostly literary fiction authors, who talk about sex in their own works. There are also a lot of excerpts from sex scenes that made an impression on the author. There are eight exercises at the very end of the book.
ETA: Since nobody has expressed interest in more than 24 hours, I'm sticking this with the books to donate to the library book sale. I expect we'll take those in on Sunday the 7th, some time during the afternoon. If someone asks for it before then, I'll pull it out, but otherwise, it'll be gone.
The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers by Elizabeth Benedict. 1996.
This book is not aimed at writers of romance or erotica, and the author is a little snotty about sex scenes that are meant to be hot just for the sake of being hot. There’s very little about mechanics and a good bit about focusing on the things that matter to the characters and way that bad sex can make a good story or that things that aren’t overtly sexual can be sexual in practice.
There are a lot of short sections written by other people, mostly literary fiction authors, who talk about sex in their own works. There are also a lot of excerpts from sex scenes that made an impression on the author. There are eight exercises at the very end of the book.
ETA: Since nobody has expressed interest in more than 24 hours, I'm sticking this with the books to donate to the library book sale. I expect we'll take those in on Sunday the 7th, some time during the afternoon. If someone asks for it before then, I'll pull it out, but otherwise, it'll be gone.
