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How to Write a Dirty Story: Reading, Writing and Publishing Erotica

By: Susie Bright
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
ISBN: 0743226232
ISBN-13: 9780743226233
Released: 05 Aug 2002
RRP: £9.99
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invaluable - By: Carrie White, 28 Oct 2007
Whether you're an amateur writer of sex or someone who has been in the business for years, this is one book, I feel, you should never be without. Susie Bright reveals her 'tricks of the trade' to enable you to gain the expertise to succeed at the craft of writing erotica.

What this book teaches is that no matter who you are, where you come from or even how skilled you are or aren't in bed, you alone have the ability to write a truly, erotic story & one that has the potential to blow your readers socks off.

Although gaining experience in the craft of writing is an advantage, this book is also invaluable in what it teaches by the author's good use of personal experience, writing exercises & guides to the steps that inevitably follow after the final draft of your first work.

So, if you don't get any other book on the subject of writing erotica, be sure that you make it this one.

Didn't do it for me - By: HLT, 24 Feb 2003
The first thing to note is that the usefulness of "How to Write" books is fairly subjective - different writers will respond to different approaches.

Personallly, I don't like exercises, & this book is full of them. One of the exercises suggests videoing yourself "in action" so that you can describe things more realisticallly. A good idea on the face of it, perhaps, but how many people will actuallly do it? And if they don't, the exercise is valueless.

The same thing applies to the other exercises. If you're the sort of person who will write down names of famous people on scraps of paper to pair them off as story fodder, then this might be for you.

On finishing, I found I had no more insight into the process than when I started. It's well written & quite interesting, though. It just didn't do its job.

Instead of getting this, I'd suggest beginning erotica writers take a look at Edo van Belkom's "Writing Erotica". That's not perfect either, but there's a lot more nuts-and-bolts there. Or get some "proper" writing books (Sol Stein & Orson Scott Card are my favourite "craft" writers), read some steamy stories, & figure it out yourself.