How to Write a Novel About Sex and Sexuality

Am, i don't think that i ever set out to consciously respond to or rebuke the sort of male writers of the canon. It felt like my characters inevitably were heading towards actually getting into bed together at some point. I couldn't just keep suspending the release of that feeling for the entire novel. So then they'd get in there, and then i would be like, awfull. Now i guess i have to write about this. And making those choices is like walking a tight rope. They were tricky to write, but they felt important,. because that's so much of the energy of the novelist,  is like a kind of sexual energy.