Something near and dear . . .
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mag7wrimoSo I am cleaning out my inbox for the first tine since probably the beginning of the semester, and I came across this article: "On Sex in Fiction".
While it does have some self-promotion in it for the author, I think she makes some very good points about language and the eroticism of language. Not just the writing of the act itself, but how language can be erotic without even discussing the act of sex itself.
Not surprisingly, I also agree with her ideas about the use of sex, particularly as character development, and about the different ways that writing sex also contributes to the story.
It makes me think we should have a challenge, something along the lines of tracing the development of a relationship through the different ways of writing sex (or the different types of sex?) or some such . . . .
After Nano, though.
While it does have some self-promotion in it for the author, I think she makes some very good points about language and the eroticism of language. Not just the writing of the act itself, but how language can be erotic without even discussing the act of sex itself.
Not surprisingly, I also agree with her ideas about the use of sex, particularly as character development, and about the different ways that writing sex also contributes to the story.
It makes me think we should have a challenge, something along the lines of tracing the development of a relationship through the different ways of writing sex (or the different types of sex?) or some such . . . .
After Nano, though.
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Date: 2015-12-01 10:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-02 04:22 am (UTC)I do love the idea of sword fighting as a - um, character and relationship development. Hmmmm . . . .