How To Write Erotic Fiction and Sex Scenes by Lister Ashley

Author:Lister, Ashley
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781472109699
Publisher: Constable & Robinson

Kristina Lloyd is equally gifted at providing an attention-grabbing opener as she shows here in her delightful short story, ‘All My Lovers in One Room’.

Yeah, that’s right: all my lovers, past and present, and it’s not a big room either. This could be a horror story, and maybe it is because I can’t see the ending from here. There are thirty-seven men and two women, but even without counting, I know someone is missing.

Fancy him being late for my deathbed!

Lloyd, K., ‘All My Lovers in One Room’

In this opening passage we are immediately intrigued by the unusual situation of so many people being crowded into a room with one person – all of whom are cited as former lovers of the central character. It’s an opening worthy of Kafka for its surreal quality.

♦ We’re given a suggestion of promiscuity because there are 40 characters in the room including the first person narrator.

♦ There are echoes of sexual ambiguity because there are men and women in the room.

♦ Lloyd has immediately hooked the reader into wanting to read more in the quest to find out what is going on in this story.

EXERCISE

Hook your reader with an intriguing opening line. Think of some way to capture your reader’s interest, either with an insightful observation in the style of Megan Clark’s Seduce Me, or with an outrageous or puzzling remark such as those demonstrated by Cheyenne Blue and Kristina Lloyd.

Compare the results of this exercise with the previous one.

♦ Which opening did you prefer to write?

♦ Do you think both are equally valid?

♦ Does one way of writing an opening lend itself to a different type of story or a different style of character?

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