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Writing Erotic Romance
By Alison
Kent
October 16-27, 2006
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About the Class
Erotic romance reigns supreme as a big category of women’s fiction—a
billion dollar business serviced by a new breed of uninhibited writer. Alison
Kent, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Erotic Romance,
will analyze the elements that go into making an erotic romance work.
Topics Covered
10/16
What Is Erotic Romance?
The promise a romance author makes to a romance reader is to deliver
a love story with a happy ending. In an erotic romance, she also promises to imbue
the love story with a highly charged sexual component. However, no erotic romance
will work if the basic story elements aren’t in place.
10/18
The External Journey
Whether a story couple is brought together freely or against their will, the plot
gives them a reason to be in the same place at the same time so sparks can fly.
In an erotic romance novel, sex introduces trouble into a character’s world. That
trouble is the heart of the external journey.
10/20
The Emotional Journey
Romance readers want to experience the novel’s hero and heroine falling
in love. Stagnant characters are boring characters. Readers want to witness the
growth and upheavals in the lives of the people populating a novel.
10/23
The Physical Journey
In an erotic romance, the physical relationship between the hero and heroine is
as important as the emotional. Push your characters to the edge of what they think
they know about their own sexuality because the sex in which they engage must
raise even more issues with which they’ll be forced to deal.
10/25
Writing Explicit Sex
When applied to a romance novel, the word “erotic” means the intimate scenes between
your couple will be explicitly detailed as well as highly charged with both emotion
and sensuality. It’s a demanding task, one requiring an understanding of the sexual
workings of the human.
10/27
Meeting Reader’s Expectations
Readers of erotic romance expect eroticism. They want their emotional
journey, but they want to experience the sexual relationship down to every toe-tingling
kiss – no matter how intimate that kiss may be.
About the Speaker
Alison Kent is the author of 5 sexy books for Harlequin Temptation,
including "Call Me" which she sold live on CBS 48 Hours, 11 steamy books
for Harlequin Blaze, including "The Sweetest Taboo" and "Kiss &
Makeup", both Waldenbooks Bestsellers, 10 sizzling books for Kensington Brava
including the Smithson Group series, as well as a handful of fun and sassy stories
for other imprints. She is also the author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide
to Writing Erotic Romance", and has another 4 Brava releases in the works.
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