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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 Different Types of Erotica

A lot of times erotica will have this sense of the character becoming sort of a sexual being, right? Like maybe she starts out timid and then kind of as she goes through all of these encounters becomes sort of comes into herself sexually. It's almost like a coming of age type story. So I think that's another, it's still a sense of escalation, but that's it's more emotional or psychological than just like, oh, we're having a bunch of sex scenes and they get more intense each one.

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