Proportion

If I talk about having a sense of proportion in a story, do you know what I mean?

I’m thinking of proportion in visual terms. If you have a painting with the horizon dead center, it feels dull and stagnant. Move that horizion up or down, so it hits the page at the 1/3 point, and suddenly it feels dynamic.

What does that mean for erotica? I don’t think you can literally use the rule of thirds. But if I do think that half and half feels static.

What about a movie where you care about someone and their car blows up. Compare that to an action flick where cars blow up every three seconds. If you keep rubbing the same spot with your erotica, chances are that your will eventually go numb. Vary things a little and keep the story dynamic.

My new series, Channeling Morpheus, has a lot more sex in it proportionally than my PsyCop series. The stories are shorter, however, so I think the proportion is doable. (Check out Channeling Morpheus: Payback at Changeling Press on 4/25 - www.changelingpress.com)

Here's a cool website for when you need to find proportions, literally:
http://herbfogler.com/proportionater.html

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