Want to write love scenes that tingle with closeness and desire? This two-hour workshop with author Johanne Bille is built around exactly that: how to portray attraction and intimacy in a way that feels both believable and sensual, without slipping into clumsiness, cliché or emotional distance.
The session draws on examples from both contemporary and older literature, along with tips and techniques, and combines them with writing exercises where you can try out approaches and find your own language for the erotic, the emotional and the physical, whatever genre you write in. It runs in two parts: the first focuses on "the first meeting" and how to depict attraction, the second on eroticism, desire and the physical.
Johanne Bille (born 1993) debuted in 2015 and has since written eleven novels about happy and unhappy love affairs. In 2024 she took the step into romance fiction with the Boghandel Blåregn series, which has just concluded with its seventh and final volume, earning praise for its tender romantic entanglements and its sense of the physical and intimate.
