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‘Great fiction covers all aspects of life – including sex’
Honey Brown writes for thereadingroom.com
NEW YORK, July 9, 2013 – Victorian writer Honey Brown has written a thoughtful and thought-provoking post for TheReadingRoom.com’s blog on the importance of including sex in all forms of fiction, not just the stories that are labeled erotica or erotic fiction.
Brown has gained a following for her psychological suspense stories including Red Queen, The Good Daughter, After the Darkness and the latest, Dark Horse. The novels contain sex scenes, but cannot be labelled erotica, erotic fiction or pornography – and that’s just the way it should be, says their author.
‘I’m keen to steer the topic away from “erotica”,’ she writes, ‘and back onto sex – simple, home-grown, garden-variety sex. The type of relatable sex we should see, and need to see, in novels. Not that “normal” sex in writing can’t be erotic – it can be. If the story calls for it, and the characters are up for it, an erotic sex encounter can enhance a book immeasurably. However, that doesn’t mean the book is suddenly “erotica”.’
Real sex is sometimes lacking in novels, she writes – the sex scenes are often not realistic, and ‘[r]eaders are within their rights to groan and roll their eyes when writers abandon all creative sense, drop the plot ball completely and write an over-the-top and pointless sex scene.’
Brown writes that novels of any genre should use sex as a tool to move a story forward.
‘Sex should be used as a way to explore a character’s uniqueness. To tell our tales, we have no qualms about utilizing all other aspects of being human: love, death, marriage, romance, parenting, spirituality, working, warring – you name it, it gets the full treatment … Human sexuality should be equally in the mix.’
Brown’s piece is a must-read for readers and writers alike, as she offers an insight into the writing process that will fascinate both and offers suggestions for how sex can be included in all sorts of novels in a way that satisfy’s the needs of both for a great story.
Read Honey Brown’s guest post, ‘The Sex Test’, on TheReadingRoom.com’s blog.
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