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Steamy: How to Write About Sex

Learn to write about sex like a pro!

To write about well about sex, you need:

the boldness to command and describe the dirty and oh so delicious acts we humans explore, and

the basic writing skills of plot, setting, and character.

In this pen-to-paper writing workshop we'll look at some examples of both extremely successful and unsuccessful erotica. You'll learn:

how to write steamy love letters for your sweetheart,

step up your blog to the next level,

where to submit your work for publication in the erotica world, and

quick basics for editing your work.

Bring a paper and writing utensil, we will be doing writing exercises.

Sinclair Sexsmith writes the award-winning personal online project Sugarbutch Chronicles: The Sex, Gender, and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer Butch Top at www.sugarbutch.net. With works published in various anthologies, including Best Lesbian Erotica 2011, 2009, 2007, and 2006 collections, Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/Femme Erotica, Visible: A Femmethology Volume II, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, and more, she is a columnist for SexIs, CarnalNation, and AfterEllen; the lesbian erotica editor for the Lambda Literary Foundation; and the New York coordinator for the women's programs at the Body Electric School, with whom she has studied for nearly ten years.

Mr. Sexsmith holds degrees in both creative writing and gender studies, studied at Bent Queer Writing Institute in Seattle, and currently teaches community and academic workshops and classes around the US on gender, sexuality, healing, communication, and getting the sex life you want.