If You Can’t Write About Sex, You Can’t Write

A Master Class in Intimate Writing

Some of you have asked me for the nitty-gritty details of my upcoming May writing class:

The Intimate Memoir is a class:

- Taught by Susie Bright about mastering the craft of sex in writing and the artistic demands of sexuality in character and plot.

It’s an asynchronous online course that runs May 1 - 30.

You will study how sex scenes of all kinds drive a novel or memoir, and the sexual motives of your characters. You will glean the best authors’ intelligence in memorable love stories—and love/hate stories, too.

Sex, as we know, is not one thing, or one quality. Our class will address sex and all its manifestations in human comedy and drama.

Mastering the “sex scene” in English literature is like an actor mastering the death scene on stage. It is the mark of a mature artist, to handle intimacy and human catharsis with grace and style. It can be ecstasy, it can be tragedy. You have to be up for it.

If an author can’t write a moving sex scene or convincing erotic character element, you’…