Hi Dominique! I actually am working on a book about this right now. In the meantime, even if you can’t attend the class, if you purchase it, you will get the recording that you can access any time. I hope that helps!

Where I disagree with you, teacher, is in your two versions of the love scene between Taylor and Seraphina, I actually prefer the first, more explicit version, better than the second version. While disparaging it, you actually wrote a steaming hot scene that got my juices flowing. On the other hand the second version typifies what I don’t like about supermarket romance novels — all sweet and sugary with cliches instead of spice. Am I bad to feel this way teacher? Is there something wrong with me? Forgive me please; punish me if you must.

I talk about all writing here and romance is a huge genre. Additionally, my favorite of all love stories, of couples coming together are best when the passion and desire are unmet, off the page and become something more. Love. It’s why I believe Christian romances are the hardest to write well, much like clean comedy far more difficult because don’t have access to the graphic language and low-hanging fruit of being obscene or toilet humor.

Yet even in a love story, much of what Cait addressed here works and makes a better story. That and she defined “sex” as everything from heightened attraction (which I enjoy and write) to the other end of the spectrum which I don’t read or write. Some of the best Christian fiction I’ve ever read, which had me dying for the pair to get together, to make it, are Christian historical romances from Jody Hedlund. Jane Eyre never shows skin, no consummation, nothing out of marriage and yet women have fallen in love with Mr. Darcy since the 1800s because of the tools laid out here.