Cameron Kingsley

Have you ever wondered why so much smut is poorly written? The answer is fairly straight forward: a lot of porn is created without the elements that are necessary for good writing. For example, character development. It's hard to write a sex scene where people grow as a person, but character development is an extremely important aspect of writing good literature. So how do we write good sex scenes? Let's answer this by tackling each problem with common smut.  First, let's discuss character....

While a lot of writers don't work with an in depth outline, there are some features that can be helpful to plan out for your scenes before starting. I'll go through the items that I find useful to plan out before getting started on a scene in order to increase my words per minute in my writing sprints. These items include setting importance, set design, lighting design, weather, costume design, character objectives, choreography, and the five senses. First, let's discuss setting importance....

While you can’t work out your creative muscle at the gym or physically see it grow over time, creativity is still a muscle. The more that you use it, the stronger it gets. The stronger it gets, the easier it can be to come up with ideas for your writing, whether that be ideas for scenes or ideas for full length novels. And the best part? There really is no downside to practicing your creativity! You can never be too creative. Today, I want to provide some suggestions on how to practice...