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Ep 50 - Romance versus Erotica and Defining the Genre with Cassandra Rose Clarke

Romancing the Story: Writing Romance, Storytelling, and Book Structure

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The Power of Metaphor and Suggestion in Erotica

I think at this point in time, I feel like you probably it probably has to be graphic. Even if it's a story built entirely around sex, which to me is what makes something erotica. But I do think that there's an expectation that it's going to be explicit and steamy. And if you don't have that, if you just sort of have suggestion, people are going to be like, this is an erotica."

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