✍🏼 WORKSHOP: How to Write (Hot) Sex Scenes Without Shame w/ Steve Almond
** This is a LIVE workshop. Attendees will be sent a video recording after the workshop. **
How can writers avoid clichés when crafting a sex scene? How can sex scenes deepen the relationship dynamics between characters?
Even though people think about sex all the time, and even have it occasionally, writers tend to shy away from the subject. Which is crazy. Because sex is the one experience that makes us all hopeful and horny and embarrassed and vulnerable (at least if we’re doing it right).
In this 60-minute freewheeling session with author Steve Almond, we’ll look at the work of Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, and other literary figures to learn how to infuse our own sex scenes with genuine emotion and ecstatic sensation, not evasions and porn clichés.
Arrive ready to lay your characters bare.
About Steve Almond
Steve Almond is the author of a dozen books, including the New York Times Bestsellers “Candyfreak” and “Against Football.” A film adaptation his first novel, “Which Brings Me to You” (co-written with Juliana Baggott) is now streaming on Hulu. His second novel, “All the Secrets of the World” has been optioned for TV by 20th Century Fox. His new book, “Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow” is about the joys and hardships of writing. He’s the recipient of an NEA grant for 2022 and teaches at Harvard. His work has been published in the Best American Short Stories, the Best American Mysteries, and the New York Times Magazine.
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