by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m really at a loss as to how to write a sex scene. I once read a quote from a novel writing book where some guy said that people in novels have far, far more sex that anyone in real life.
So, I have to get over myself and figure out how to write a sexxy scene so I can stay in the game. Otherwise, I risk essentially writing a YA novel. Ugh. Fucking Ugh. Nothing against YA novels, but that’s not my vision for this project.
With that in mind, I have to mull how to tastefully depict some of my characters getting it on. I’ve already written one half-hearted sex scene, but I think I’m going to go back to it at some point and punch it up some. It has got to be better than it is right now. Right now, it’s kind of meh.
The thing about sex scenes is they drain all the tension out of the story. I’m sure there is some rule of them as to where to put sex scenes in the progression of the plot, but I have no idea what I’m doing so I put this particular sex scene where logically it would make sense.
But I have figured out a way to keep the tension going by the scene I use to break up the few scenes that make up the knocking boots event. I just have to keep thing moving and not let all the tension in the story drain out of it, even for a moment.
