Hi, Danny O'Toole here.
The “Introduction” below tells about the book I plan write before your very eyes, inspired by Nina Amir’s How to Blog a Book.
The blog approach will benefit us all:
Download and read my companion book, Honeymoon in Overdrive, the story that provides the examples for my blog:
To be notified when I begin to blog How to Write Your Sexy Story, send an email with the Subject Overdrive Blog to DannyO@OverdrivePress.com. Feel free to include your preliminary questions in the email.
I’m compiling some of my most useful pointers for a running start on my blog-a-book. Meanwhile, here’s what you can expect:
I’m here to tell you, boys and girls (of appropriate age), a good sexy story can be—rarrr—even more fun to write than to read! And with my companion set you hold a key to both:
Whether you are a fiction newbie or a pro honing your craft, here is what this guide can do for you:
Do you write reams of nonfiction, but itch to try your hand at make-believe? A different world, it is. But take heart—you’re off to an excellent start if you know how to write well, not just good. So tarry no longer. Read and apply my guide’s strategy to expand your skills into the challenging—but oh-so-rewarding—Never-Never Land of fiction.
You might begin with a demure tale: one that’s “sexy” in any respect that grabs and holds your reader’s attention. Or you might prefer to charge headlong into the Yes-Oh-Yes Land of outright sex scenes. Release those “penned-up” desires! It’s a great way to energize everything: your inspiration for writing, your story itself, and—why not?—even your real-world love life! And while you’re at it, hotstuff, a boost in libido can perk up your nonfiction too. Regardless of your motivation, From A to X, my guide will have you performing on the sheets.
What about Y and Z, you ask? Throughout this guide I recommend excellent references for your continued development. My goal is to fire you up to get your fire into print. Fiction demands intrepid first steps. Take those steps with this guide. Once you’ve wrestled awhile with a creation of your own, you’ll know better what to look for in those further resources.
To summarize my train of thought: We needn’t just travel through fictional worlds via la-z-butt armchair. Get daring. Hop onto The Little Keyboard That Could and catch the Chatterly Choo Choo to discover what scandalous delights await you in the “sleeper” car.
Since you’re already motivated to tap your untamed imagination, you can quite frankly use this guide to achieve, you might say, hard and fast results. Straightaway.
You’ve no doubt encountered the illusiveness of the literary G-spot—that Gratifying point at which your sex scenes contribute most to your overall theme, characterization, plot, pacing, voice, and the rest. As you struggle to get your characters fittingly laid, you face questions like these:
Seek no further, writing lovers young and old. This well-endowed guide is groaning under the penetrating insight of passionate ways to satisfy the above questions and many more. Strip off your uncertainties and flesh out just the right tone and degree of breathless excitement in your own eager—and decidedly more cherrily original than this paragraph!—voice.
First Honeymoon In Overdrive demonstrates a wide range of explicitness as it explores that age-old quandary—Marriage: Trap or Treat? Woven into 11,000-plus words about a young couple’s escalating commitment is an atypically hot and heavy support role for sex (a long, hard job, but someone had to do it):
Then How to Write Your Sexy Story from A to X employs detailed examples from my story to guide you along the way to your own. I draw from the personal journal in which I recorded each step—from first glimmer of idea to final ruthless edit—as I slaved over my piece month-after-month (albeit with extraordinary enthusiasm). I archived every one of my hundreds of versions and countless edits, together with reminder notes on why I made the changes.
After combing through this material with the benefit of hindsight, I deduced how I—and you—can attain results much more quickly. My practical tips paired with examples from my story give you an insider’s road map to extending your nonfiction talents to fiction—including sex scenes from evocative to explicit, as suits (or birthday suits) your story.
Other writer’s guides use multiple works as examples, typically chosen from well-known literature according to which best illustrates any given point. You’ll eventually find those nuggets quite useful to further refine your work… after using this guide’s integrated approach to fast-track your all-important first drafts.
Have no fear: beyond the most instructive selections I do not subject you to every word and punctuation tweak. But you do see each significant stage of story development, including scene, character, and plot enhancements, along with major shuffling of the event sequence to improve pacing and increase tension.
As a consummate bonus, this guide also helps you relieve all that extra tension by giving your characters whatever sex they cry out for. Other guides on the subject provide generic writing tips, then leave it to you to conjure up suitable romps. But sex poses unique challenges in fiction as in life. This guide spills out a cornucopia of fruitful suggestions, each plucked from my ripe story.
“Eiffel Tower and the Moon” © 2010-2013 by Leonel H. Ocampo, http:// leocampo.deviantart.com. Used by permission.