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    You Can Write Erotic Fiction: How To Build Your Sexy Story With 9 Secret Beats
    You Can Write Erotic Fiction: How To Build Your Sexy Story With 9 Secret Beats
    You Can Write Erotic Fiction: How To Build Your Sexy Story With 9 Secret Beats
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    You Can Write Erotic Fiction: How To Build Your Sexy Story With 9 Secret Beats

    By Rebecca Ryatt

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    Sex sells. Make it sell for you!
    Do you want to write red-hot stories? This short, easy-to-read book will show you how in 9 simple steps.
    It’s no secret that sex sells. And everyone knows that erotica is really popular with readers all around the world.
    So let me ask you a question?
    Have you ever thought of becoming a writer of erotic fiction?
    “I’d love to,” you say, “but story telling seems so complicated.”
    Not any more it’s not!
    I’m Rebecca Ryatt, a prolific and acclaimed author of erotica, and I’m giving you the inside track on telling dirty stories.
    Writing teachers often talk of beats. These are simply story moments. Events that take the story in a new direction.
    In this instructive guide, I will show you the 9 Secret Beats that will help you build a sexy story people will want to read.
    In this instructive, easy-to-read guide, I will break down the barriers between the reader and the writer, showing you how to construct stories easily.
    Using examples from my own work, I will tell you all you need to know about writing erotica.
    This illuminating guide can be read in probably an hour – it’s only 13,000 words in length.
    And by the time you’ve finished it, you will be buzzing with enthusiasm and all set to start your career as an author of erotic fiction.
    Don’t delay – buy You Can Write Erotic Fiction: How To Build Your Sexy Story With 9 Secret Beats today...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRebecca Ryatt
    Release dateFeb 26, 2017
    ISBN9781370381647
    You Can Write Erotic Fiction: How To Build Your Sexy Story With 9 Secret Beats
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    Rebecca Ryatt

    Rebecca Ryatt is a prolific author of erotica. Although primarily a writer of fiction, she has also published a how-to guide for would-be erotica authors called You Can Write Erotic Fiction: How To Build Your Sexy Story With 9 Secret Beats. Formerly a journalist, she has also done her fair share of other jobs including fruit picker and shelf stacker. She also plays the piano and performed as a singer-songwriter for a while. Writing at her kitchen table while drinking a cup of coffee, she loves to hear from her readers and can be contacted on Twitter @rebeccaryatt.

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      You Can Write Erotic Fiction - Rebecca Ryatt

      You Can Write Erotic Fiction

      How To Build Your Sexy Story

      With 9 Secret Beats

      Copyright © 2016 by Rebecca Ryatt

      Cover and internal design © Rebecca Ryatt/Shutterstock

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems – except in the case of brief quotations in articles or reviews – without the permission in writing from Rebecca Ryatt.

      Warning

      This book is a how-to guide for writing erotica. It does feature sexual content that is inappropriate for anyone under 18. Also, if you’re a bit sniffy about sex, don’t read it, don’t use the Look Inside feature to leer and the naughty bits and then complain about them. If you are interested in erotica, or if you’ve just got an open mind, I would love it if you bought this hopefully helpful little guide – Rebecca

      Table of Content

      So you want to be a writer, do you?

      Getting published is so difficult

      So how do I go about self-publishing?

      But I don’t have time to write

      All right, but where do I start?

      But where do I get ideas?

      Does a story need a structure?

      So how do you build a story?

      So tell me more about characters?

      Log everything

      Where should I write?

      How far can I go?

      I’m not a good speller

      So what are the 9 Secret Beats?

      So how do the 9 Secret Beats fit into the beginning, middle, and end?

      What now?

      So you want to be a writer, do you?

      If that’s the case, you’re going to have to do one or two things. I’ve been writing erotica for nearly 20 years. For two decades I’ve been honing my craft. I’m still learning, of course. All writers are; we never reach a stage of perfection. There is no such thing. And many reviewers claim I’m rubbish at what I do; well, I’m a believer in people having the right to believe what they want to believe, and expressing it.

      My belief is that I’m quite good at telling a story. Not the best, my any means. But I understand how to put a tale together, how to portray characters.

      I was a journalist for many years, and it’s where I started to learn about story telling. You had to think about how you would start an article, what information was needed to make it interesting, what you should leave out, and how you would end the piece – usually with a pay-off line. It was a very useful education.

      But you don’t need to have been a journalist to be a writer. It might be useful if you read journalism; it might be useful if you read as much as you can. Stephen King (do read his On Writing) says to be a writer you need to be a reader, and this is can be considered an axiom.

      So let’s declare it to be Rule 1: To be a writer, you must be a reader.

      If you want to write, please read. Read as much as you can. Read different things – fiction, biography, newspapers, magazines, poetry. Immerse yourself in words, in styles, in story.

      And don’t just read blankly; think about what you’re reading. Ponder how the writer does what she does, how she builds the story, how she creates tension, the way characters are introduced and presented.

      Make reading a part of your writing life. I cannot stress how important it is, so I will let the aforementioned Mr King tell you: If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

      Getting published is so difficult

      Yes, this is true. But the publishing world has been transformed in the past few years, thanks primarily to the likes

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