Sex and (the historical) Sensibility: Sickness, Seaside, Seduction
In my last post , I wrote about needing to know about Regency boating attire. And how the good advice I got from generous colleagues in the romance writing biz helped me develop the boating scene I was writing. Which scene happily led to The Seduction Scene by the Sea. Mutual seduction, let me add, a good time being had by all including the author. Because I'm not the kind of romance writer who's given to protest that she writes the hot stuff purely in the Service of Plot and Character Development and at great personal cost to herself. Erotic writing, as I always stress in the Writing the Hot Historical workshops Janet Mullany and give from time to time, ought to be its own reward. While also, of course, carrying with it the feeling of its historically understood world, quite as fully as any other scene in the novel. My own shorthand for thinking this way is that while you probably need to get some of characters' clothes off (in this case, the boating costume I worked so ...