Writing Asexuality in Fiction – Masterpost

anagnori:

I’ve finally built up a nice series of essays on writing asexuality and asexual characters in fiction. Here they are, all together in one place. They’re intended to be useful for asexual and non-asexual writers alike. They are also meant to be inclusive of gray-asexual and demisexual characters, although my knowledge is limited there.

These essays assume you already have a basic knowledge of what asexuality means: a general lack of sexual attraction to other people. This is not Asexuality 101; for that, check out the links on my resources page.

• Character Development Questions
• Demisexual Characters and Relationships
• Glossary of Words and Concepts Used in Asexual Communities
• Fetishization of Asexuality
• How to Show That a Character is Asexual
• Negative Responses Asexual Characters May Get When Coming Out
• Plot Ideas
• Potential Sources of Conflict For Asexual Characters
• Sex Scenes with Asexual Characters
• Stereotypes to Avoid

Other potentially relevant topics

• Aromanticism 101
• Aromantic Representation, or Lack Thereof
• Lithromantic Story Prompts
• Relationships That I Want to See More of in Fiction
• Sherlock Holmes as an Asexual Character – May be useful if you need an example or inspiration for how asexuality can influence a character and their relationships.

This post may be updated in the future as I write more stuff on this subject; I’ll link to it from my blog’s homepage so it’s easy to find.