tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496585120938599514.post6452828266923059090..comments2023-05-04T03:37:04.200-07:00Comments on The Rouge Wave: Romance Writing - Is it For You?Julie Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14690487940378619749noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496585120938599514.post-77557033117268707342008-09-01T18:18:00.000-07:002008-09-01T18:18:00.000-07:00GREAT post. Love hearing the back story behind su...GREAT post. Love hearing the back story behind sucessful writers. Was pleasantly suprised to read how hard Linda Howard worked when she was getting close to completion. <BR/><BR/>Romance novel writing doesn't capture my imagination so I'd never even make an attempt. Romantic comedy screenplays, however, is my favorite of all genres. I'm happiest there. Unfortunatly, I don't always have a pressing romantic comedy story to write. Still, I find that I'm able to infuse some romance fairly effortlessly into every screenplay or fictional work I write. <BR/><BR/>- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WAE.C. Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10748007729066148300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496585120938599514.post-42227193647204016422008-09-01T13:31:00.000-07:002008-09-01T13:31:00.000-07:00Meg, remember that Flaubert's Madame Bovary read r...Meg, remember that Flaubert's Madame Bovary read romantic novels all the time. And look what happened to her...JPShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02045935799908793676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496585120938599514.post-23122886204222539142008-09-01T12:17:00.000-07:002008-09-01T12:17:00.000-07:00I can't even imagine reading 30 to 50 romance nove...I can't even imagine reading 30 to 50 romance novels ever much less in a month. <BR/><BR/>Last year I was working on a short novel and decided to read a few books outside the usual genres I reach for in the hopes of stirring up my thoughts and maybe seeing my story in a different light. Among the books I checked out were two romance novels by popular authors. I did read them. But I couldn't tell you the titles or the authors' names. When I was finished I had no desire to read any more. There was a part of me that wished I could write a romance novel because it's so popular. Our library have shelves and shelves of them. <BR/><BR/>I don't know about the middle aged thing though. I had high school friends who loved reading them. I have a friend whose wife left him after 7 or 8 years of marriage. She was around 30 at the time. He said all she did was read romance novels. When we all went on vacation together a couple of years before the divorce she didn't want to do anything but read her romance novels. <BR/><BR/>I guess I don't have a high opinion of romance novels which makes me uncomfortable because i don't like to knock anyone's reading /writing preferences.<BR/><BR/>The romance/sex/love is the plot not the subplot. Without that there is no story, no book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496585120938599514.post-61996425873286630572008-09-01T10:55:00.000-07:002008-09-01T10:55:00.000-07:00I would be the first to admit I read romance novel...I would be the first to admit I read romance novels -- if they had even an ounce of authenticity to them. But I cringe at their overly choreographed fakeness in much the same way I do exhibition wrestling.Future Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03759583408060316919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496585120938599514.post-10536087988204057922008-09-01T10:39:00.000-07:002008-09-01T10:39:00.000-07:00I'm going to GUESS in an obviously prejudiced but ...I'm going to GUESS in an obviously prejudiced but possibly accurate way that the difference is the complexity of character and plot. I have often posited that romance novels are socially acceptable soft porn for middle-aged women. Boy, that sounds really opinionated. I'd love more clarification on this. Romance novels are like candy, romantic literature is like creme brulee. More complex, layered and sophisticated.Julie Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14690487940378619749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496585120938599514.post-9763000369558177352008-09-01T10:17:00.000-07:002008-09-01T10:17:00.000-07:00Not sure exactly what makes a novel a romance nove...Not sure exactly what makes a novel a romance novel beside the obvious like a love story and half-naked sexy beautiful people embracing in an uncomfortable exaggerating pose on the cover? If so I never crack a romance novel in my life, especially the latter. But I think Atonement is a romance novel, is it not? If it is then I'm all for writing romance novels. Can someone shed some light on the difference, say between Atonement and Stranger in the Night (I made this up) with half-naked sexy beautiful people embracing in an uncomfortable exaggerating pose on the cover?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com