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Create effective sex scenes and sexy snippets in fiction of all genres.
Sex matters in characters’ lives: it can create and destroy relationships, overturn decisions, persuade them to move half way round the world, topple royalty, make new characters, cement the alliance with France, and so on. It’s also a great source of character motivation and narrative tension.
You don’t have to write fully fledged A-to-Z sex scenes for all that, but you want to be sure you’re including what’s right for the story, not just stopping where embarrassment dictates or vocabulary fails.
So in this workshop, we’ll start by blasting past the boundaries: all the words and strategies we need if we do write full sex scenes. From there, comfortable in our skin (and with theirs), we’ll explore how to use just a few compelling details to create sexual tension and a clear sense of what’s happening off the page.
This is a sex-positive, body-positive, and inclusive workshop, with clear guidelines to keep everyone comfortable.
Very lively! It's held on Zoom, and packed with activities, games, discussion, and snippets of writing. For games and discussions, you're in small groups of 2–4. In the breaks and between the two days, I switch the groups around so you get a chance to work with and meet everyone.
Not at all. If you do have a work in progress, you can use the relationships and characters in that.
Nope: fiction of all genres can and does include sex scenes and sexy snippets.
Heavens, no! In the round-off discussions of most workshops, students have the chance to say how they found a particular exercise or to share what you wrote. For this workshop, we'll stick to discussing how we found the exercises.
No. The online workshops are very interactive and hands-on, with live discussion, group work in breakout rooms, etc, rather than me filling the screen telling you stuff. So a recording a) wouldn't be very cohesive, especially when I'm jumping between breakout rooms to monitor discussions, and b) would also interfere with the students' privacy.
Yes: you'll get a booklet in the post, with everything we've covered in the workshop, and you'll also get a PDF copy of that by email immediately after the workshop.
Each half of the workshop is 2.5 hours long, with a break in the middle. Check for your time zone in the table below, for the start times.
Time zone / Country | Workshop starts at... |
United Kingdom | 10am |
EDT (New York, USA) | 5am |
CET (eg France, Spain, Germany) | 11am |
SAST (South Africa) | 12pm |
TRT (Turkey) | 1pm |
IST (India) | 3:30pm |
SST (Singapore) | 6pm |
AWST (Perth, Australia) | 6pm |
AEST (Brisbane, Australia) | 8pm |
AEDT (Melbourne & Sydney, Australia) | 9pm |
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