How To Write? Make It Like Sex

Pedro Hoffmeister
2 min readFeb 4, 2021

I Accidentally Learned This While Teaching Writing

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I discovered something by accident the other day.

My students were writing bad stories in class. Really bad. Their stories were starting without hooks, ending too quickly, and had no discernible climaxes. Forget resolution or denouement.

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Pedro Hoffmeister

Author with Random House. TBI survivor who struggles. Poet. Climber. Former Writer-In-Residence of Joshua Tree National Park. Podcast: “Boring Is A Swear Word”