Steve Tindle & Brenda Woody on male/female POV

Today’s guest blog about point of view from the male and female perspective was written by Brenda Woody and Steve Tindle, a couple and author team. I’ll lead off with their bio because they have a interesting story…

Steve Tindle and Brenda Woody were high school friends in Georgia who reconnected, on a social network, after 30 years of leading separate lives. During their re-acquaintance, they found their past and interests were similar; they had written poems, songs, and both had the desire to be published.

Their combined experiences and fantasies inspired their first erotic novel Best Lover in Town, published June 2010. Brenda moved to Dallas in 2009 to be closer to Steve, start a new chapter of her life and work on future books. Their second book Temptation Triggers, an anthology of erotic short stories, was released June 2011 for Kindle and will be available in print soon. Black & White Affair, submitted in a holiday contest 2010, has been expanded and is available as a short read. Triangle of Secrets and two more books to be released in 2011. Their stories are penned with the perspective of both male and female point of view regarding sexual desires and pleasures.

Writing POV as a Team on the Male and Female Perspective

Writing point of view was difficult for us when we wrote our first novel. We knew what we wanted the male and female characters to do to each other or say in a sex scene but staying in one or the other’s head was tricky. For our first sex scene, we basically wrote a very long paragraph with a lot of action.

Readers loved the story content for Best Lover in Town but did tell us there were paragraphs they had to re-read. We read through the first edition and saw exactly what they were talking about. Thank goodness the rights were reverted to us. We re-edited and re-leased BLT; it’s a much smoother read now. The last three years we have improved on the POV and dialogue in our stories.

When writing the male or female gender remember they are still people. Write how your character would react as themselves, not in gender form. Be sure to get their personality right. Men communicate differently than women do; they tend to say exactly what they mean, while women are more tactful.

In a romance or sex scene, take in account men are visual and women are physical. Along with dialogue, include action where your male character is seeing her sexy lingerie or her curvy body. For the female character, his touch on her face or running his finger down her arm works.

Our characters are all different but easy to write about. We discuss how each will react to various situations. We also ask each other questions like, “If I touch you here, what does it feel like?”, so the scene is realistic. The research is certainly fun! When either of us is writing in the opposite gender, we discuss whether or not the character would say this or that. Writing as a team, we give special insights from both the male and female perspective.

Blurb for Best Lover in Town

Janet Anderson is searching for sexual magic in the man who can match her in the bed. Janet suspects all this and more lies within her handsome boss, Nathan Lovett. During a work-related visit to Janet’s home, Nathan and Janet give in to an attraction beyond their control, and soon find themselves immersed in a pleasurable night of uninhibited sex and heated passion. To their dismay, their luscious interlude is interrupted, and Nathan must leave on a plane to a far away place; their whirlwind coupling on hold.

Three years pass, and with Nathan gone, Janet’s co-worker and best friend, Madison, urges Janet to end her mourning and explore other possibilities. Janet attends parties and events to fill the void left by Nathan, meeting four other men. Though she experiences new sexual delights and discovers more about herself; her suitors fall flat, and Janet is left longing for the touch of her Nathan. Will the best lover in town return to finish what he started?

Blurb for Temptation Triggers

Temptation Triggers captures the wickedness of sexual fantasy, the mystery of unexplored territory and the fulfillment of open communication. Among these thought-provoking stories, two friends find themselves drawn into a dark erotic world, a woman encounters a mysterious man and a mature couple discovers hush-hush desires about each other. With different styles of writing, Temptation Triggers reveals erotica that is passionate and spellbinding.

Steve and Brenda’s blog

Steve and Brenda’s website