I had a great compliment paid to me the other night. A person whom I've never net before told me she read Lady Clair's Cavalier and she enjoyed it so much. Then she asked me how I wrote such good love scenes.I had to think about that a minute--actually for more than a minute. I'm still thinking about it.
Writing love scenes is difficult for me. I'm shy. Not only that, but I try to make each scene different within the book and take place in different settings. I do try to infuse a lot of emotion, in addition to passion, in my love scenes. Yet, trying to analyze what I do isn't easy.
I'd really be interested in knowing what other authors and readers think about what makes a good love scene.
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(Sorry, I spotted some typos)
Here's something an editor taught me when she told me my stories seemed to come to a screeching end at the end of a love scene.
I figured out eventually I was suspending conflict through the love scene, and when it ended, the story felt like everything important had been resolved. Well, I don't want my love scenes killing my story!
Conflict is essential to an entire story, including the love scenes. I've learned to keep some unresolved issue threaded through the story so it's not forgotten entirely. And at the end of the scene, it has to be clear that just making love did not fix everything. It's amazing how much this one little thing made my love scenes so much better.
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