kissing scenes
kissing scenes!
If you want to learn how to write a kissing scene for a romance novel, or for any other type of fiction, this article will a good starting point for you.
kissing scenes!
Many budding romance writers have a really tough time when the get to the love scenes. In fact, they often skip them completely, thinking they will come back to them later. I definitely do not recommend this approach.
kissing scenes!
In my experience, when you skip a scene and tack it on at the end, it shows. You end up with an empty scene that doesn't flow or add to your characterization. Chances are, if you skip the loves scenes and add them at the end, your reader will have the urge to skip them altogether.
kissing scenes!
Instead, follow my 5 simple steps to learn how to write a kissing scene.
5 Easy Steps to Write a Kissing Scene:
1. Setting and Mood - Use sensory details to describe your setting so that your reader sees what your characters see. This gives the illusion of being there. Of course, this first step applies to ANY scene, not just a kissing scene.
kissing scenes!
2. Proximity - Get your characters close to each other in some unusual, awkward, intimate situation. They can't kiss if they're not close. Adrenaline and other chemicals released during an awkward or dangerous situation helps to create the right frame of mind for a kiss to happen.
kissing scenes!
3. Observation - Now that your characters are close together, they need to notice something about each other that gets their blood boiling. This may or may not be something they've noticed before, but it definitely needs to be something that inspires passion.
kissing scenes!
4. The Kiss - The moment of truth. What you've been waiting for. It will happen very naturally if you have set it up properly with steps 1-3. If it seems forced, you need to tweak steps 1-3 until it feels right, then just describe it in delicious detail. Refer to other authors' kissing scenes if you need help with your kissing scene vocabulary.
kissing scenes!
5. Resolution - Your characters have to stop kissing now and get back to the story (unless they are moving on to a full-blown sex scene). Though this part stumps a lot of beginning writers, it's really quite simple if you think about it. Just interrupt them. A physical interruption such as a person barging in works. Or one of your characters has a thought and acts upon it. Just wedge something in there between them and throw them immediately back into the action of the plot.
