How to Write Sensual Love Scenes (The Secrets to Getting Your Romance Novels Published Book 3) by Adrienne deWolfe

Author:Adrienne deWolfe [deWolfe, Adrienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-07-02T23:00:00+00:00

Euphemistic Prose

In sensual Romance scenes, euphemism is preferred to graphic detail.

If you study sensual Romance novels that have been published over the last five years, you will see a broad range of writing styles. The character’s personality, the romantic subgenre, and the era in which the novel is set, all impact the language that is used to describe sexual interactions.

For instance, if you are writing through the viewpoint of a Beta Male (a man who has a sensitive, poetic personality), he might think of a kiss in the following terms:

She tasted of sunbeams and rainbows, a honeyed mead of hopes and dreams.

An Alpha Male is likely to view sexual contact in more physical terms:

Her touch was electric, sizzling along every nerve, striking sparks near his groin.

In passages related to foreplay, many writers make clear what is transpiring in physical terms, but avoid an explicitness that could offend the reader of sensual Romance:

Rhiannon closed her eyes as Arick's thick, warm hands crept beneath her robe. His flesh was callused and leathery where it brushed her skin; still, his gentle explorations worked like an earthy balm, soothing her fears, teaching her pleasure. She stilled her thoughts as his mouth left her own, coaxing tingling tremors from her earlobe to her spine. She expanded her senses, drinking in every scent, taste, and nuance of man. Her breaths mingled with his, matching their shallow rhythm. She felt the quickened pounding in his chest, the throbbing life force in his loins, and she shivered with delight as his tongue nuzzled her breast. (Excerpted from Wolfspell, by Adrienne deWolfe)

To write sensual prose that conveys a heightened state of arousal (in other words, to convey the moments immediately before orgasm), the rhythm of your words must change. The pacing must become quicker to imply a sense of urgency. Thus, simple subject-predicate sentences are employed, and complex adjective phrases are minimized, if not eliminated entirely.

To further demonstrate the intensity of arousal, writers often draw upon metaphors related to heat or fire:

Her senses sizzled. Sparking and crackling, they spun out of control. She reared once more. This time, his hips raised above hers, pushing with infinite slowness. She trembled as lightning coiled inside her. She clutched him closer. He buried his hands in her hair.

Orgasm tends to be written in the most euphemistic language of all. The primary goal of the writer is to convey emotional ecstacy. At this point in the love scene, descriptions of physical sensations are generally underplayed. Thus, in the book’s first consummation scene, orgasm might be compared with symphonies, angelic choirs, heaven/nirvana, fireworks, cyclones, thunder, lightning, etc.

Let’s look at an example from one of my paranormal manuscripts:

Suddenly, she soared on wings of power. She watched in spellbound wonder as his essence blazed around her, catapulting her higher, sweeping her past moons and planets into a galaxy of golden suns. The universe flashed around them, but its brilliance paled before the splendor of Arick's unleashed soul. She opened herself joyously to his light, to its

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