Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes. — Diana Gabaldon, "I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes
Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes. — Diana Gabaldon, "I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes
Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes. — Diana Gabaldon, "I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes
Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes. — Diana Gabaldon, "I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes
Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes. — Diana Gabaldon, "I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes
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Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes.

— Diana Gabaldon, "I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes
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If you can’t look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why it’s there—take it out or change it. — Diana Gabaldon, "I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes
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As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag. — Diana Gabaldon, "I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes
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