Writing Love Scenes: Professional Techniques for Fiction Authors (Writer's Craft)

Learn to write love scenes like a a pro.

Two professional authors show step-by-step how to create conflict, depth and intensity, and craft a heart-warming or harrowing scene that readers will never forget.

This book shows you step-by-step how to to write about
- the first meeting
- the first kiss
- characters in disguise
- confessing a secret
- relationship conflicts
- breaking up
- marriage proposals
and much more.

Do you want to write 'clean' or 'steamy' love scenes? The choice is yours. This guide shows techniques for
- keeping your characters and your writing chaste
- implying intimacy without showing it
- creating erotic tension without sexual action
- seducing the reader with explicit sex.

Whatever genre you write, you'll find useful advice for your story:
- gay love scenes
- lovers belonging to different cultures
- love between members of different species
- love scenes involving several characters.

'Writing Love Scenes' is intended for intermediate and advanced-level writers and want to learn specialist skills. It is not recommended for absolute beginners.

About the authors:

Susanne McCarthy is an experienced romance novelist.

Rayne Hall is a professional fantasy and horror author, editor of the Ten Tales speculative fiction anthologies, and creator of the Writer's Craft series.