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Hmmmm, doesn't like the URL.
Let's try this:
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Quills (a movie staring Geoffery Rush based on a written play by Doug Wright about the historical figure the Marquis de Sade the father of Sadism - we get the word from his actual name, I believe).
that is the first movie/book/play that came to mind. It depends though how you are defining erotic.
I used to find the Merry Gentry and Anita Blake Vampire Executioner novels of Laurel K. Hamilton a real turn on as she has some brilliantly erotic sex scenes.
I eventually went off them after one book got to chapter four and the main characters were still in bed; you can have too much of a good thing.
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I used to find the Merry Gentry and Anita Blake Vampire Executioner novels of Laurel K. Hamilton a real turn on as she has some brilliantly erotic sex scenes.
I eventually went off them after one book got to chapter four and the main characters were still in bed; you can have too much of a good thing.
I am a fan of those books too. I left for a different reason. But I do like the scenes / books I read of both those series, and a series of similar genre like Keri Arthur and Sunny but I am very picky about how characters are written and LKH kind of ... didn't meet my standards LOL.
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I am a fan of those books too. I left for a different reason. But I do like the scenes / books I read of both those series, and a series of similar genre like Keri Arthur and Sunny but I am very picky about how characters are written and LKH kind of ... didn't meet my standards LOL.
So, what do you look for in a well written character? I'm interested because I'm aware it's something I could improve in my own writing.
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So, what do you look for in a well written character? I'm interested because I'm aware it's something I could improve in my own writing.
Hmmm, I'm honestly not sure. I haven't given it deep thought, but off the top of my head.... let me think...
... to be clear, first of all, the main characterization issues that get on my nerves in other people's writing are the women, honestly. Even LKH who is a woman, Anita Blake gets on my nerves after a while. Merry Gentry is marginally more tolerable. It is a male gaze world out there, and writing tolerable female characters who aren't just parroting some trope, is a real challenge.
I guess, I look for characters who may have their own issues but the story shows how they get past them. I know it's more realistic to have characters get stuck in their shit as people do, but, like people read to escape and to be inspired if you make the mirror too on point, it can be hard to keep reading cos its too close for comfort on how even in fiction, people get stuck in their own issues.
Like in erotica, if someone has a hangup over how they have a certain affinity toward a certain kink, for example, have them meet a character that helps them learn its okay to be kinky, rather than have them self-flagellate over it the whole story.
I guess it's like if I read a story and I still want to talk and hang out with a character from that story and learn more about them and such, then that is a well-written character in my opinion. I think of characters as their own people. I guess that is why so many writers people watch for fun. It's a kind of research to see how people act so they can duplicate it in their work.
