 Romance/Love: March 09, 2016 Issue [#7524] |
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This week: Classic Love Stories Edited by: Crys-not really here  
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| Hello! Welcome to the Romance/Love Newsletter. I'm Crys-not really here and I'm the editor for the newsletter this week. Today, we'll be exploring some of those classic love stories that appear in literature over and over again. |
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Classic Love Stories
You've probably heard the saying that there are "only so many plots" in fiction. The number varies from 7-9 depending on who you ask. The trick for writers, then, is not to AVOID certain plots, but to breathe something fresh and new into them and make them their own. I think this can be especially true for romantic stories. Romances tend to occur in only so many places and in so many ways. Here's a list of literally every romance I can think of:
 Romeo and Juliet/forbidden love
Older man/younger woman or younger man/older woman
Love/infatuation at first sight
Met online or some other "taboo" place
Hero saves heroine and they fall in love. (Sometimes heroine saves hero, but rarely.)
Anything else you can add to this list? I'm sure there are some I have forgotten, but the vast majority of romantic plots I can think of fall into one of these categories.
My point is, "classic" themes are classic for a reason: they work, we usually like them, and they make us want to read more. They help us fantasize and act as an escape from reality. But are these "classic" plots enough for the average reader in 2016? Probably not. They're formulaic, but we live in a society where fast cars and sex scenes are the norm. Unfortunately, we as writers need to compete with that. So, my question to you is, how? |
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