How (and Why) To Write a Sex Scene Workshop with Cecilia Tan – January 30, 2025
Join Passionate Ink for our “How (and Why) To Write a Sex Scene” workshop with bestselling author Cecilia Tan on January 30, 2025 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT. Sex scenes are a building block of fiction akin to fight scenes, car chases, family arguments, and other set pieces that a plot may require. If your characters are three dimensional, have human relationships (and aren’t explicitly presented as asexual/ace), then there’s always a chance they might end up in a sex scene. If you’ve ever wondered how you could write better sex scenes (or any sex scenes at all, if the concept feels intimidating), this class will delve into the craft of these scenes. RT Award winning author Cecilia Tan will present tools and techniques for approaching these scenes, and making them work for both readers and characters, and how to tailor them to your genre or subgenre. We’ll also discuss pitfalls to avoid and subjects like content warnings.
Cecilia Tan has been called “simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature” by Susie Bright, and “science fiction’s premiere pornographer” by Walter Jon Williams. She has been a longtime activist and organizer in the bi and BDSM communities and is a winner of the RT (Romantic Times) Lifetime Achievement Award. She holds a Masters in Professional Writing and Publishing and founded Circlet Press, Inc., for whom she edited over 100 anthologies of fiction. Her own books include the ground-breaking erotic sf/fantasy short story collections Black Feathers (HarperCollins) and White Flames (Running Press), and the Magic University series (Riverdale Avenue Books). Her short stories have appeared in Ms. Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Absolute Magnitude, Strange Horizons, and tons of other places. She was inducted into the Saints & Sinners LGBT Writers Hall of Fame in 2015.
This workshop is FREE to Passionate Ink members and $45 for non-members, but you can become a member of Passionate Ink for just $45/year to receive this and three additional workshops for free as well as member discounts on all other workshops.
The live presentation will be recorded for registrants who cannot attend the live session.
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