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Hi, I'm StephBee and as of March, I'll be one of your FULL time Romance/Love editors.
I'm so delighted to come here to the Romance/Love Newsletter. I had a chance to guest edit last year from July - October and I really enjoyed the time I spent here.
Just to share a little about myself, I've been with Writing.com since April 2005. I was a full time editor of the Drama Newsletter from Jan 2007 - Feb 2010. I've also done guest spots on the Action/Adventure and Short Stories Newsletters.
Being a member of the Writing.com community has really improved my writing. While I'm not afraid to tackle any genre, my passion is romance. In April, I have a lighthearted romantic short story coming out about two muses who fall in love in "Be Mused," to be released by Desert Breeze Publishing. They will also be releasing my paranormal romance, "The Hungarian" in May.
This month I'd thought I'd give you an overview of the genre and talk a little about the rules for writing romance. Enjoy! |
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Romance is a genre that's always been popular. In fact, sales for romance were robust last year, considering the fiscal climate we find ourselves in. When the industry looked into it, the majority of readers said "romance offers hope," and that's why they read the genre. And romances do. A happy ending gives a reader a sense of satisfication and hope.
Romance has several subgenres. Some of the more popular genres now include paranormal, chick lit, historical, and romantic suspense. The genre isn't limited to those subgenres either. There's also gothic romance, fantasy, regency, contemporary, inspirational, sci-fi/speculative, and westerns to name a few and over the course of the following months I'll be taking a in depth look at several of these subgenres.
If you are thinking about writing a romance, there a few "solid" rules to keep in mind.
#1 - Start the novel with the hero and heroine meeting to work on or solve a problem. Don't start several years before they meet. Put them in motion at the beginning.
#2 - Happy Ever After. A romance isn't a romance unless the couple finds love and makes a commitment to each other. If one of the characters walks away from the other at the end, it isn't a romance novel - it's a relationship novel.
#3 - I've Only Got Eyes For you. When the hero and heroine meet, they should only have eyes for each other. There's no room for a third party love interest.
#4 - Point of View - The main point of view should be the woman's. Readers enjoy the hero, but generally, he's not the character who is going to give your romance the emotional content it needs to reach the reader.
KEEP IN MIND:
While the romance genre is forgiving of established authors writing a scene in multiple character perspectives, if you are a new author, don't. Try to write your scenes from one point of view. Most professional editors strongly encourage one point of view in a scene.
While you can break the rules, if you do, you probably don't have a romance novel anymore.
STEPH'S LOOKING FOR ROMANCE
If you have a romance from around the site or any that you'd like to share, submit a link to the story. I'd love to read it.
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This feedback is from my 21 OCT 2009 Newsletter about Romantic Conflict.
sarahreed
Thanks for going over the true conflicts in romance stories. That will help me a lot in writing my NaNo novel. If you get to do another newsletter, I'd love to know more about types of relationships.
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StephBee
StephBee is a 911 Dispatcher for LAPD. Her short story, "Matchmaking A-Muse-Ments," is coming out in "Be Mused," a romantic anthology from Desert Breeze Publishing in April 2010. |
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