This is always a headache…
I write erotica which obviously has a strong focus on intense sexual situations so I’m not shy about writing about the physical and emotional nuts & bolts of what is going on (pun intended) but I want my novels to be far more than just (hot) sex scenes strung together.
As a reader I want to know how each interaction is going to change the main characters and move the story along, it doesn’t matter if it’s personal gratification in a shower or a hot & heavy bondage session.
As a writer, my ‘code of conduct’ is that each scenario is not written to shock or titillate – it absolutely has to drive the story forwards to a conclusion and develop the main characters in some way.
Add to that each scene has to be exciting, tantalising and unique; and when you’ve completed in excess of 350k words over three books, probably incorporating an average of 13 sexual encounters in each – this accounts for a headache of migraine proportions!
I’ve spent the weekend editing my short story collection and for various reasons this particular section didn’t make it. I decided the story worked better in third person limited narrative and not first person; and after all of that work changing the perspective I felt that this bit just didn’t move the narrative along or describe anything further in the dynamics of the relationship that couldn’t have been explained in another way. In short, I didn’t want to be adding in sex for sex sake.
However, as I hate to leave anything on the cutting room floor, I’ve posted it up on the Excerpts page of www.rebecca-gibson.co.uk as an example of my more ‘intimate’ writing style and use of language.
To put the excerpt into context, as one of their sexual dare games, my female character has been ‘ordered’ to the restaurant bathroom by her partner to give herself some ‘hand relief’ …
Rebecca Gibson 