Sex Work

Stuart Jeffries: Julian Barnes claims that British novelists feel obligated to write love scenes and so make a hash of it, replacing euphemisms with cliches. So what is so tricky about literary sex?

...Why is sex so hard to write well? Perhaps, the most lovely passages of sex in fiction are those that concern the moments before or immediately after rather than in what highbrow critics call mid-rumpypumpydom.

A discussion on where the money is and (maybe) isn't in writing erotica.

"Recreating the mood, the magic of the performance, may be possible; but it's exhausting and not necessarily the best way to spend your time. You could be on the phone, live, with a caller! Or finally getting around to that marketing you've been putting off. But, before you delete that recording and begin again, see if you can clean-up the audio file by removing the background noise."