Sensuality of Writing (WisCon 31 panel)

81 The Sensuality of Writing and Writing Sensuality

The Craft And Business of Writing SF&F•Senate A• Saturday, 2:30-3:45 p.m.

This panel will explore the physicality of writing and its connection with the words, phrases, and ideas of sensation in literature. For instance, some argue that they write in definable, different ways when writing on a computer versus paper versus an antique typewriter. Some authors claim that they use different pens for different pacing in a story or novel. All authors are concerned with the portrayal and evocation of sensuality in their work, but how does this assembling of words using specific writing tools influence the work itself? Note that while the topic of eroticism will inevitably come up, the erotic is only a very small part of sensuality. Give us the good, the bad, the comfortable, the painful. Let's explore how our senses influence us and how our portrayal of the senses is influenced by the physical act of writing itself.

M: Victoria McManus, Forrest John Aguirre, Kat A. Beyer, Jennifer Dunne, Tom La Farge