Comments on: I Can’t Do Sex https://dahaines.com/i-can%e2%80%99t-do-sex-2/ Alter ego of author, Derek Haines Sat, 08 Jun 2024 11:45:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: kcsfann https://dahaines.com/i-can%e2%80%99t-do-sex-2/#comment-6158 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:36:48 +0000 http://www.derekhaines.ch/vandal/?p=5572#comment-6158 Hi Derek, Although I enjoy a good romance story, I am not a big fan of sex, sex, sex (in a novel) lol… If people want hot and steamy sex scenes, they can go to the hot and steamy sex scenes section of the book store. If there is a spot in one of your books where sex is necessary, just write a sexually explicit excerpt. You can do it! Write fast and get it over with. lol

With regard to the blood and guts stories, I love a good mystery, but I do not like chop em all up for no good reason reads. I was never a fan of "The Chain Saw Massacre."

Sex sells, but so do you. Just keep doing what you're doing. It's working!

I love your style and your musings. You are a master at your game!

Love and Respect,
Kathleen

P.S. To each his own and I respect authors of all genres.

]]> By: Akhen1khan2 https://dahaines.com/i-can%e2%80%99t-do-sex-2/#comment-6157 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:32:22 +0000 http://www.derekhaines.ch/vandal/?p=5572#comment-6157 Trying to strike a happy middle road situation between 'necessary to the story',and,'gratuitous', is a problem for all writers Derek. What is acceptable depends on the country in which your book is being read as well. Not an easy thing to try to balance. I feel your pain over this problem…

]]> By: Reena Jacobs https://dahaines.com/i-can%e2%80%99t-do-sex-2/#comment-6156 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:34:44 +0000 http://www.derekhaines.ch/vandal/?p=5572#comment-6156 I know what you mean, but have the opposite problem. I'm not saying my writing is great or anything, but I would like to learn to tone things down. As it, I tend to write the graphic…thrusting, penetrating, texture, taste…on and on about the sexual act. I get the impression if I can somehow hint without taking away might I have a greater market. Eroticism seems so limited.

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