Writing the Erotic

WRITING X 461.14E

Explore the erotic as a genre as you learn to incorporate writing about sex and sexuality artfully into your writing, no matter its subject.

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Online
Starting at $720.00
As few as 10 weeks
3.0

What you can learn.

  • Explore how eroticism connects to characters, scenes, settings, and voices
  • Incorporate the erotic into your writing to understand the relationship between sex and literature
  • Take chances with your writing through exercises and prompts
  • Read stories incorporating erotic writing to identify successful techniques

About this course:

Writing about sex can be challenging. This course helps writers build erotic writing grounded in various characters, settings, and voices. We explore how humor, bad sex, or even problematic sex lend themselves to a fuller—and more erotic—interaction between two characters to establish a relationship between sex and literature, as well as how we make it fit naturally in the flow of a good story. This course encourages students to take chances and experiment with building eroticism into their work or creating a story that is primarily driven by the erotic, along the lines of Pauline Reage’s Story of O or George Bataille’s The Story of the Eye. Students leave the course with an understanding of both erotic writing as a genre and incorporating the erotic into other writing.

Winter 2025 Schedule

Date & Time
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This section has no set meeting times.
Future Offering (Opens November 04, 2024 12:00:00 AM)
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Instructor: Trebor Healey
400607
Fee:
$720.00
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Notes

Enrollment limited to 15 students; early enrollment advised. Visitors not permitted. Internet access required.

This online course is conducted through Canvas, a secure website that allows students to log in to access lectures, discussions, and other course materials on demand. There are no required live class meetings. Each course is structured with weekly assignments and deadlines. Lectures and coursework are accessible throughout the week. Workshops are conducted in writing via discussion boards with your instructor and classmates.

Refund Deadline
No refunds after January 22, 2025
Course Requirements
Internet access required to retrieve course materials.

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