I have lots of ideas but none of them stick out to me as something I really want to write about. Any Suggestions as to ideas that maybe you would like to read about? Any help would be appreciated!!! THANKS!
2006-10-06 12:17:28 · 13 answers · asked by Sabrina J 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
My Mother loves to read about Historical romance. A story about a clan, or a sequel to go with it. You could get some really good ideas from history books about the south, the plantations, or about true love that has a unanswered ending that someone has to add for themselves. Something different than all the others. Add a littly mystery to it, where you can't figure it out after the 2nd chapter.
2006-10-06 12:22:32 · answer #1 · answered by Garnet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A couple of comments on formula, which were great. I'd like to chime in as well.
Just like westerns and mysteries, romance novels have a formula.
I've only read maybe a dozen, but I've noticed that it's typically from the woman's point of view. The guy and her don't get along but are forced to interact (she hires a detective, he teaches horseback riding, he is the director of a movie, that sort of deal).
Rarely do they have any conflict beyond their own Independence. The turning point in the story is usually a third character doing something (kidnapping her, stealing her money, etc).
The guy is always 'rough and ready' and confident to the point of almost being dismissive of her ..and she is often the same.
The sex scenes ... he ..uh...goes down and stays down. Then finally "takes what he wanted since the day their eyes locked across the harbor, he's sword in hand defending his ship against the barbarians." He soon discovered that she could take as well as give, smoldering passions and turgid members and heaving bosoms, lol. It's great fun.
By the way, I'm a huge fan of Janet Evanovich's mystery novels and her early romance works as well.
2006-10-06 16:21:15 · answer #2 · answered by wrathofkublakhan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a formula to romance novels. The hero and heroine are antagonistic at their first meeting. One or the other is tied up with someone else, so the romance is doomed from the start.
From there you work out ways in which they can interact, often in a crusty manner, each reinforcing their original negative impression of the other. Somewhere in the back half of the book, nearing the end, the loved one of the hero or heroine does something incredibly stupid and the engagement or relationship or whatever it is, ends with a bang. When the scales fall off his/her eyes, they notice how good, true, noble (and attractive) the other one is and they fall deeply and truly in love.
What differs from one romance novel to the next is often little more than the background against which the story is written. Your hero (or your heroine) can be a garage mechanic, which means you have to understand car lingo and know something about repairs. Of course, you could have a really funny scene where the heroine, as the mechanic, scolds the hero for doing something dumb, such as not checking oil levels or whatever, and it could be the hero who knows nothing about cars and is a fuzzy headed scientist or a dreamy artist or whatever.
Good luck to you, and hope you sell a million.
2006-10-06 12:26:06 · answer #3 · answered by old lady 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Write down some of your ideas and look at them side by side. Which one do you like best? That's the one you want to stick with. File the others to work on another time.
The key to writing a BOOK is to stick with one project to the end. There will be times when you just want to quit and throw it away, but stick with it. 99% of beginning writers never finish writing that first story and you can't go on until you do.
Don't worry about it being perfect, by the way. Once you get the first draft done, you'll be revising it anyway. Just get the story told.
2006-10-06 15:12:03 · answer #4 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Romance novels are formulaic. There are definite rules about how they are written. You have to know the formula. I'm sure there are websites that can tell you. Otherwise read a few and see how other writers do it.
2006-10-06 15:19:51 · answer #5 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The plot doesn't matter as long as the heroine has heaving breasts, the hero has hair that she can't stop running her fingers through, and they look into each others eyes with a smouldering longing. Write that scene, then work forward and backward from there and you'll have an instant classic.
2006-10-06 12:27:03 · answer #6 · answered by chunkstyle46 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 00:40:08 · answer #7 · answered by grumney 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly about a firefighter who sometimes has to go help other states put out their fires.
She loves him, but is love worth the risk of him dying and leaving her a widow? or should she embrace that love for as long as she can?
Just a silly idea. My late husband was a firefighter and I am still proud of him today.
2006-10-06 12:30:17 · answer #8 · answered by Deborah K 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Let's go on a date, you can write about it, It will be the hottest selling romantic novel ever!!!!
2006-10-06 14:25:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. Make one about Pirates and get Fabio to pose on the front cover.
2006-10-06 12:20:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋