handful-ofdust:

imsfire2:

“Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can’t do – like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy.”

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Martin Amis (via writingquotes)

do you ever feel like published authors should go read some fanfiction…

(via snickfic)

Clearly if three male authors (including one who has a legendary ego the size of a small planet) can’t do something well, it can’t be done? Pffft.

(via greatgreenbird)

mmmmyeah no.  see, the way you get super good at something?  Is you do it ten thousand times.  If you want to write exemplary sex scenes, you read thousands of good ones.  You write thousands of bad ones.  You beg friends who are good at writing sex scenes to critique your work.  You study gender, sex, sexuality, mechanics, emotional resonance, the viscosity of different lubrication options – in yourself, in others, in research.  You imagine with ever more clarity – both sex and writing.

You want to be good at writing sex scenes?  You have to do exactly the same work you did to become a good writer of everything else.

so don’t pretend it can’t be done, author dudes, because there’s a million fangirls who can write lyric filthy devastating character-revealing plot-advancing poetic tender wall-slamming trope-inverting panting sweaty trope-embracing aching crying sex…..and can do it far far better than you. (via redshoesnblueskies)

me at male writers who constantly discount genres read and enjoyed primarily by women as not being literature

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Bethofbells)

doin it rong AND writin it rong, pretty much my entire life.;)