More on smut-writing

[resonant]

From novelist Jennifer Crusie, who should know:

"The problem was trying to write a love scene and stay a lady at the same time. It wasn't possible. The minute you started thinking that writing sex was cheap and disgusting, your mind froze up and you wrote boring dreck. It was sort of like having sex. You either threw everything you had into it, or it wasn't worth the bother."

(from Welcome to Temptation.)

Comments

[ardent-muses.livejournal.com]

Thanks for writing about this -- it's really interesting.

I love Cruisie and just read Welcome to Temptation this summer. She's terrific. She's also a big fan-girl (of Buffy), so I feel a bond *G*.

I haven't forgotten that I owe you an email (even though you probably have!). Big apoloogies.

[beledibabe.livejournal.com]

::nodding vigorously::

I knew that I was never going to go back to being the girl-next-door when I found myself explaining anal sex to my son and he was blushing more than I was.

But then again, most people probably suspected that about me anyway.

And now that the kidlet towers over me and is a Legal Adult, I find myself reverting back to my college days potty mouth. Gotta stop it. One of these days I'm going to say "fuck" in front of someone I'm trying to impress and will have to go kill myself afterward.