Today, I have an absolutely incredible guest post from Carrie Mesrobian, YA author of Sex & Violence, Perfectly Good White Boy, and Cut Both Ways, who is stopping by to talk about why she thinks YA authors should write novels with sex.
“Only If It Serves The Plot” – or why most advice you’ve read about writing about sex is worthless.
Adults cannot talk about sex without going slightly unhinged.
Even if there’s wine. Even if it’s between friends. For some, even if it’s with their spouses and partners. There’s something about wanting to talk about sex that marks you as someone off-kilter, creepy, and – dare I say it – perverse.
So it’s not a shock that we lose our minds about sex depicted in fiction. We mock the literary/adult side of it via formats like the Bad Sex Awards (where are the Good Sex Awards?) and we castigate and ghettoize books that focus on sex too much in general, like romance novels, so-called “chick-lit,” and erotica.
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“Only If It Serves The Plot” – or why most advice you’ve read about writing about sex is worthless.Adults cannot talk about sex without going slightly unhinged.
Even if there’s wine. Even if it’s between friends. For some, even if it’s with their spouses and partners. There’s something about wanting to talk about sex that marks you as someone off-kilter, creepy, and – dare I say it – perverse.
So it’s not a shock that we lose our minds about sex depicted in fiction. We mock the literary/adult side of it via formats like the Bad Sex Awards (where are the Good Sex Awards?) and we castigate and ghettoize books that focus on sex too much in general, like romance novels, so-called “chick-lit,” and erotica.
