Hey all I’m glad to be invited to be your special guest this week.
For those who don’t know me I write Historical Erotic Romance… some with paranormal twists. 
I enjoy writing paranormal because it truly has no boundaries. Whatever your mind can think up, can happen. If you want to have a monkey that can spin spells, breath fire, and shit gold go right ahead.
I write historical because history is something I love. The history of sex I adore. People think that men and women who lived in the 1800’s were pure, strict, and overly religious. While that was true of some, there was a vast amount of people who were kinky as hell! All you have to do is read about the Hellfire Clubs of the late 1700’s or pick up one of the erotic journals of the late 1800’s to see.
Anyway for me writing hot involves getting in touch with your characters feelings, the five senses. If I can’t feel what is happening to your characters then it is not hot to me. I want to feel their heart beating a mile a minute, their breath hitching, them fighting with their inner self to hold in the laugh that is oh so inappropriate but down right funny.
That is what I try to convey in my writing. I have no idea if I pull it off but I hope I do.
I like to read short erotica and if “the sex” is not part of the plot/main character growth then to me the amount of sex required for the story to be erotica turns the story into a string of sex scenes squeezed in for no purpose. Stories like that lose some of their hotness for me.
What about reading erotic romance makes a specific story feel hotter to you than another?
Kisses,
Lacy.
Lacy Danes
WHAT SHE CRAVES, Kensington March 2007
September 18th, 2006 at 12:40 am
I have to agree about bringing in the five senses. I don’t think enough authors do it. I often find myself going back through scenes and asking myself if I added all five. If not…something to layer in.
September 18th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
Yeah I think the storyline has been fastly fading in erotic romance lately. Where it’s more just a lot of hot sex with the thin thread of a story line. I love the books with a great plot, and some really HOT sex!
September 19th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
I’ve been reading erotic historicals lately and I LOVE them. So I’m looking forward to yours, Lacy. Whoo hoo!
And yeah, the 5 senses are so important. I try my hardest to touch on all of them as well in my writing.