I was just writing to a friend and, as I recall it, there's like 7 basic (cliche) plotlines used in most romance novels such as "the poor but beautiful governess falls in love with the grouchy but actually wonderful master of the house." (Used in Jane Eyre and countless Harlequin romance novels.) Can you name any?
2006-11-11 12:30:22 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
1. Boy meets girl. (vise versa)
2. Underprivileged girl falls in love w. boss/master/doctor
3. Rich girl pretends to be poor to get good looking honest guy.
3a. boy is rich, but pretending to be poor to get girl who isn't interested in money.
4. Dead parent puts condition in will that business/inheritance cannot be gotten unless he marries by a certain time.
4a. A particular woman is mentioned, son thinks that she was dad's former mistress, or a gold digger.
5. Kidnapped innocent is saved by noble savage, and grows to love the non-white way of life. (Native Amer. Romances)
6. Arranged marriages where man believes something bad about woman without asking her, leaves her for years & then comes back to find a woman who doesn't care about him and then he forgives her (for something that didn't happen) and attempts to make her fall in love with him.
7. Due to strange unexplainable occurances one person travels through time to find soul mate and has to deal with the disbelief and cultural changes.
I know there are more than that, but my mind is a blank right now.
2006-11-11 12:54:06 · answer #1 · answered by speranzacampbell 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have never read a true romance story, but if I wrote one it would be about a really pretty girl with seven ugly step sisters who wore all kinds of makeup and clothing to look good but they had no natural beauty. The real pretty girl would end up trying on a glass slipper and winning Willie Wonka's chocolate factory. A prince would come along with the winning ticket and she would marry him. Something like that. I would call the name of the book CinderWonka. What do you think?
One more:
A man thinks his true love has died so he kills himself, then after he is dead, she wakes up. She has to clean up the mess and raise his children. She steals a loaf of bread to feed the kids and the king orders her to be beheaded.
2006-11-11 12:41:28 · answer #2 · answered by Valerie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To be seen of the romance variety, a singular could adhere to here standards: (one million) the story could concentration on the relationship and romantic love between 2 human beings. (2) the story could have an emotionally friendly and valuable ending
2016-10-17 04:13:40 · answer #3 · answered by janovich 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a young servant boy is noticed by an undersexed housewife with a rich though neglectful husband
2006-11-11 12:32:34 · answer #4 · answered by Circlometry™³ 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋