Till Noever
Write your heart out.
Ignore the usual stolid writing advice on the web or from books.
Dare to be non-linear and find your own process.
Daydream about your story when you're not actually writing or even before you have started. Start living it in your head before writing anything down, except maybe for some scribbled random ideas and notes.
Never write to an empty page if you don't know at least a paragraph of what you're wanting to write beforehand.
Write your first draft as if it was your only draft! The 'rewrite' thing comes later.
Don't be afraid of 'rolling edits'; meaning fixing stuff—typos, grammar, contextual elements—from yesterday before starting on today's part of your novel.
Love your characters!
Let your characters be PEOPLE—not concepts or mere embodied ideas!
Remember to make sure that every sex scene between protagonists should be a LOVE scene—even if they don't know it yet at this point in the tale—and that the scene actually takes the story forward.
Also, to write seriously steamy sex scenes without a single use of technical/biological or slang terms for the involved body parts. You wouldn't believe how hot and sexy an explicit sex scene can get without the usual trashy verbiage so many authors resort to. Ask yourself if you're writing love scenes or porn and adjust your language accordingly. Be imaginative and avoid the trope four-letter slang words starting with 'f' and 'c'. Replace slang nouns with action words evidencing the emotions involved.
Ignore the usual stolid writing advice on the web or from books.
Dare to be non-linear and find your own process.
Daydream about your story when you're not actually writing or even before you have started. Start living it in your head before writing anything down, except maybe for some scribbled random ideas and notes.
Never write to an empty page if you don't know at least a paragraph of what you're wanting to write beforehand.
Write your first draft as if it was your only draft! The 'rewrite' thing comes later.
Don't be afraid of 'rolling edits'; meaning fixing stuff—typos, grammar, contextual elements—from yesterday before starting on today's part of your novel.
Love your characters!
Let your characters be PEOPLE—not concepts or mere embodied ideas!
Remember to make sure that every sex scene between protagonists should be a LOVE scene—even if they don't know it yet at this point in the tale—and that the scene actually takes the story forward.
Also, to write seriously steamy sex scenes without a single use of technical/biological or slang terms for the involved body parts. You wouldn't believe how hot and sexy an explicit sex scene can get without the usual trashy verbiage so many authors resort to. Ask yourself if you're writing love scenes or porn and adjust your language accordingly. Be imaginative and avoid the trope four-letter slang words starting with 'f' and 'c'. Replace slang nouns with action words evidencing the emotions involved.
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