Adrienne deWolfe - How to Write Sensual Love Scenes

How to Write Sensual Love Scenes

Book III in the E-Series:

The Secrets to Getting Your Romance Novel Published

By Adrienne deWolfe

Winner of the Best Historical Romance Award

Adrienne@WritingNovelsThatSell.com

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Meet Adrienne deWolfe

A career journalist and publicist with more than 45 awards to her credit, Adriennes fiction debut occurred with Texas Outlaw, which broke industry records when it was nominated for two Rita Awards by the published authors of Romance Writers of America (RWA).

Since that time, each of Adriennes five romance novels has earned distinctions from reviewers and readers. For instance, three of her heroes won Knight in Shining Silver (K.I.S.S.) Awards from Romantic Times Magazine, and a fourth hero won the Avon Romance Readers Poll for Favorite Romance Hero.

Not to be outdone, Adriennes heroines have also rated high among readers, who have recognized her with the Honey of a Heroine Award (West Houston Chapter, RWA) and the Cameo Award for Strong Woman Characters (Calico Trails Magazine). The readers of Calico Trails also named Adriennes third book, Texas Wildcat, the Best Historical Romance of the Year.

Adrienne confesses that she cant sit still for long in front of a computer. A popular speaker who has lead writing and creativity workshops around the country, she taught How to Write Novels that Sell for three years as an adjunct professor for a community college. In her hometown, she has held the office of Vice President of Mentoring for the non-profit organization, Women of Visionary Influence, and she was appointed two serve for two consecutive years as a New Business Ambassador by her local Chamber of Commerce. She is certified as a Habitat Steward through the National Wildlife Federation, and she has trained as a Texas Master Naturalist through the Texas Department of Parks & Wildlife.

Adrienne continues to balance her time between her speaking, marketing, and publishing careers. She was a contributing writer for the non-fiction release, A Preeminently Healthy Place, The History of Medicine in Travis County, Texas, edited by Marilyn Baker. When Adriennes not freelancing articles or writing web content, shes marketing the products and services of the small businesses that are her clients.

Adrienne is a firm believer that what you believe, you achieve. When she coaches writers, she draws upon her 20 years of training in Attitudinal Healing, which teaches that individuals can change their circumstances by choosing to look at their situation, and the world around them, from a new perspective. She is certified as a Peer Counselor and Group Facilitator of Attitudinal Healing, a program developed by psychiatrist Gerald Jampolsky, M.D., in Tiburon, California.

Table of Contents

Sexual Tension as a Form of Suspense

Characterization is Key

Viewpoint is Vital

Avoid Distracting Subplots

Stupid Characters: A Sure Bet for Losing Readers

Unbelievable Plots: Another Reader Turn-Off

Create Mood through Pacing: Excerpts and Analyses

Texas Outlaw

Texas Lover

Taboos in Genre Romance

Emotional Intimacy is Key

The Archetypal Female Fantasy

Forbidden Desire Keeps the Pages Turning

Children and Pets as Diversions

Safe Sex in Love Scenes

Writing through Your Five Senses

Euphemistic Prose

Dialogue in Consummation Scenes

Humor and Sex

The Bestsellers Secret for Consummation Scenes

First Kiss: Texas Outlaw with Analysis

First Consummation: Texas Lover with Analysis

Morning After: Texas Lover with Analysis

Second Consummation: Texas Outlaw with Analysis

The Secrets to Getting Your Romance Novel Published (series)

Private Romance Novel Coaching (mentorship program)

Romance Manuscript Critique & Review (verbal & written)

How to Write Romance Novels That Sell (online course)

So Close But No Sale (online workshops)

Love and Romance:

The Most Popular Themes in Literature

You cant listen to a commercial radio station without hearing a song about love.

Top-grossing movies contain at least one romantic subplot to sweeten or spice up the screenplay.

Type the words Love Romance into an Internet browser, and your favorite search engine will provide 3.9 million website matches from around the world.

Clearly, we live in a society that is in love with Love.

Sexual attraction is the underlying impetus for the chemistry that sparks romantic love, but emotionally mature adults often want to evolve their romantic love into a committed partnership.

Romance novels appeal to these individuals.

Readers of Romance believe in the power of enduring love, and they enjoy stories about a man and a woman who are learning how to overcome obstacles that may be standing in the way of a happy, monogamous relationship.

To satisfy these readers, an aspiring author must learn how to write an emotionally moving love story that leads to a committed, life-long partnership an ever-evolving relationship that includes loving sexual interludes. Therefore, the focus of this e-book will be on developing a suspense technique that, in Romance-writing parlance, is described as sexual tension. This e-book will also provide tips for crafting consummation scenes that are considered acceptable to readers, and thus, to publishers of sensual genre Romance.

Before we discuss these writing techniques, however, let us first define what is meant by genre Romance.

The Elements of Genre Romance

Genre Romance is one of several types of category fiction published around the world today. The term category fiction refers to a novel that appeals to a statistically defined target audience. Each of these target audiences desires a specific reading experience that the story is expected to satisfy.

For example, in the Fantasy genre, readers expect to see occult or paranormal story elements that may include magic, time travel, other worlds, or exotic creatures.

In the Mystery genre, readers expect that a murder will occur and that the protagonist will face numerous dangers until s/he solves that crime and dispatches the murderer.

In the Thriller genre, readers expect the world to be threatened by, and eventually, saved from, international espionage, technological terrorism, etc.

In the Romance genre, readers expect that a man and woman will meet, experience a strong attraction for each other, and overcome numerous obstacles while falling in love, so that the characters may live together in a happy, monogamous relationship.

Many readers confuse genre Romance with other types of fiction that have strong romantic subplots. A classic example of a book with strong romantic subplots is the American Civil War novel, Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell . As defined by current publishing standards, Gone with the Wind would not be classified as a genre Romance because:

The books protagonist, Scarlett, is more focused on her infatuation with the secondary character, Ashley Wilkes (whom she never does win), than on the books primary male protagonist, Rhett Butler.

Scarlet and Rhett are separated for most of the novel. Scarlett marries (and therefore, sleeps with) two other men before she finally marries Rhett. (Note: for storylines that feature older, more mature female characters in Romance novels, the second-marriage/former lovers taboo is waived by publishers because social mors have evolved in contemporary society.)

In the end, Rhett walks out on Scarlett.

To be classified as genre Romance, the novel must focus on the evolution of a loving, monogamous relationship that ends happily in other words, the hero and heroine (protagonists) must clearly be headed toward a loving, life-long marriage when the reader closes the book.