Erotic Intensity Rubric: Printable Scene Evaluation Worksheet
A printable worksheet for scoring erotic intensity, explicitness, mutuality, tone, and rater confidence in fiction, film, visual art, or narrative media.
The Monroe Papers
This is where the ideas are finished.
The Monroe Papers are long-form essays on storytelling, structure, and the discipline of writing well. Each piece is built deliberately—examining not just what works, but why it works, and how it can be applied.
If the Monroe Minute (my blog) is exploration, the Papers are conclusion.
The Erotic Intensity Rubric: A Framework for Analyzing Desire in Fiction
Erotic intensity is not the same as explicitness. This rubric evaluates the embodied, anticipatory, emotional, and symbolic forces that make desire feel charged on the page.
Cartographies Of Memory
Setting can carry traces of desire and grief. This article provides a map-based model for moving from scenic atmosphere to actionable spatial design.
The Sapphic Sublime and the Architecture of Longing
Explore how authors can use the environmental sublime as a confidante and witness, turning significant landscapes into active participants in sapphic romance.
Liminal Intimacies and the Architecture of Delay
By shifting focus from the rooms where characters reside to the thresholds they cross, writers can use architectural friction to build tension in sapphic romance.
The Geography Of Longing - Corridor Theory And The Erotics Of Transitional Space
An examination of how transitional spaces—hallways, doorways, and cabs—can intensify erotic tension. By treating public space as a source of possibility and constraint, writers can map desire through exposure, concealment, and access.
Navigating The Niche Trap Through Strategic Opacity
An analysis of the Legibility Tax in publishing, exploring how demands for market relevance can distort sapphic narratives and how strategic opacity can protect aesthetic intention.
Cognitive Dissonance as the Structural Antagonist
When the protagonist’s own interpretation of reality becomes the primary barrier to intimacy, doubt stops being a passing weakness and starts doing structural work.
The Domestic Battlefield Mapping Power Struggles in Sapphic Fiction
Domestic space can carry narrative pressure. By establishing the meanings of territorial habits, spatial orientations, and object interactions within a household, writers can transform static settings into dynamic arenas of romantic and emotional friction.