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Create effective sex scenes and sexy snippets in fiction of all genres.

• 7–8 Dec 2024 10am–12:30pm UK time. (Jump to What time is that for me?)
• Online, open to bookings from anywhere in the world
• £95 total for both mornings (Currency converter)
• Maximum 16 students
• All levels welcome: all my courses and workshops cater for a range of experience, from beginners to published writers
• Live workshop, with discussion, group work, and individual writing

Workshop overview

Sex matters in characters’ lives: it can create and destroy relationships, overturn decisions, persuade them to move half way round the world, topple royalty, make new characters, cement the alliance with France, and so on. It’s also a great source of character motivation and narrative tension.

You don’t have to write fully fledged A-to-Z sex scenes for all that, but you want to be sure you’re including what’s right for the story, not just stopping where embarrassment dictates or vocabulary fails.

So in this workshop, we’ll start by blasting past the boundaries: all the words and strategies we need if we do write full sex scenes. From there, comfortable in our skin (and with theirs), we’ll explore how to use just a few compelling details to create sexual tension and a clear sense of what’s happening off the page.

This is a sex-positive, body-positive, and inclusive workshop, with clear guidelines to keep everyone comfortable.

Practical questions

What's an online workshop like?

Very lively! It's held on Zoom, and packed with activities, games, discussion, and snippets of writing. For games and discussions, you're in small groups of 2–4. In the breaks and between the two days, I switch the groups around so you get a chance to work with and meet everyone.

Do I need to have a work in progress?

Not at all. If you do have a work in progress, you can use the relationships and characters in that.

Do I need to be writing erotica?

Nope: fiction of all genres can and does include sex scenes and sexy snippets.

Do I have to share my writing?

Heavens, no! In the round-off discussions of most workshops, students have the chance to say how they found a particular exercise or to share what you wrote. For this workshop, we'll stick to discussing how we found the exercises.

Will the workshop be recorded?

No. The online workshops are very interactive and hands-on, with live discussion, group work in breakout rooms, etc, rather than me filling the screen telling you stuff. So a recording a) wouldn't be very cohesive, especially when I'm jumping between breakout rooms to monitor discussions, and b) would also interfere with the students' privacy.

Will I have my video and audio on?

Yes: the workshops are fully interactive, just like an in-person workshop, and you'll be chatting with other students in small groups and joining in whole-group discussions / feedback. If you have connection issues, it sometimes helps to turn video off to save bandwidth, but generally it's friendlier if we can all see each other.

Will we get notes?

Yes: you'll get a booklet in the post, with everything we've covered in the workshop, and you'll also get a PDF copy of that by email immediately after the workshop.

What time does the workshop start for me?

Each half of the workshop is 2.5 hours long, with a break in the middle. Check for your time zone in the table below, for the start times.

or email me at megan@thewritersgreenhouse.co.uk with any questions.

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