Mercy! Mercy! That Dang Nabed PERCY!

Writing E Class Sensual Prose

Writing E Class Sensual Prose

It is possible, indeed with little loss of visual intensity to write sensual prose and never leave the E classification….I have been experimenting for almost a year now with the technique and have decided to tell my army of readers how to do it.

Keep in mind that my interest in erotica is using it to give impetus to an interesting tale and push it to the next threshold. It is based upon the supposition that our sex drive is the motive force behind artistic excellence…passion if you will.

In order to weave the passion into the tapestry you use sensual prose making it as graphic and sensual as you possibly can….pull out all the stops and use the most powerful and proscribed words you can think of… just don’t show it to anyone at this juncture.

When you finish go back and edit out all the bad words and offensive imagery using mostly “unwritten” inference, graphic but benign prose, metaphor, euphemisms , analogies and all manner of workarounds. These are used to plug the holes where you have infused the passion leaving the passion sealed inside with none of the overt trappings. Sounds simple doesn’t it….well it isn’t but it is doable and inside the vessel you have created the passion simmers, rumbles resonates and spreads throughout the work.

For example you might have a story moving nicely along and suddenly get to the bedroom scene. Instead of stopping write the scene in all its gory detail…then begin denuding it of the objectionable words phrases and visualizations. It might be all that is left is something like this.

She held the door slightly ajar and began tapping her foot impatiently; then pushed it fully open and gestured inside with her thumb. A double bed revealed itself, with the coverlet pulled back and at the foot laid a nightgown, prominently displayed.

“Are you suggesting what I think you are?” he asked…

“I’m not suggesting anything….I’m telling you that the time has come to say goodbye to “friendship” and embark on a new relationship….”

She unbuttoned the top two buttons and stepped out of her shoes…. “I love you Frank and want to be the mother of your children…isn’t that what we both want?”

“Of course, but…….”

“No butts…this is the way it works and it’s time we got around to it.”

“You want me too….?”

“Yes, that’s exactly what I want…what are you afraid of anyway…Everybody else seems to manage it; why can’t we?….Come now, when we kissed was there any doubting the attraction…? “

“I love you Laura…I want you so bad…”

“I can see that,” she answered shaking her head…“you’re about to split the seam in your britches.”

He blushed….“I’m so sorry…”

“I’m not…step inside….there’s plenty more to see…Have you ever wondered what’s underneath this blouse…?”

Now this scene could progress through the whole act of intercourse and not reveal any more graphic detail or vulgar language than what you see above. What it accomplishes is that it amps up the story without leaving the reader out in the cold. This approach is not going to attract the hard core readers of sensual prose but who needs them anyway? It will draw in readers from the mainstream and give them a sense for what is happening without getting too deeply into their comfort zone. A writer needs to figure out how to do this deftly and the whole subject is so laden with baggage that nobody has a very good handle on it.