 Romance/Love: April 18, 2012 Issue [#4996] |
  Romance/Love
This week: Coloring outside the lines >o< Edited by: Kate - Writing & Reading  
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"Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt.
Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth."
Mark Twain
Greetings! I'm honored to be your guest host for the Love/Romance Newsletter this week. It's not your mom/dad's romance anymore ~ but the time-proven vision lives on today in the hearts of writers and readers alike.
"Dance like nobody's watching;
write like your mother will never read it!"
Marisa Wright
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Greetings from the heart 
Tales of love and romance, in prose and in verse, today have become as multifacited as its writers - and readers. Along with the traditional historical romances, there is also blending with other genres, like suspense, time travel/futuristic, comedy, and erotica. Today, there is more flexibility in writing romance. Writers can be more creative and unique in writing romance stories and verse. Romance writing today is coloring outside the lines
There's a lot of cross-over between mystery, romance and romantic suspense.
I believe classification has much to do with the intent of the writer. In a mystery novel, the mystery is the main plot factor, even if there is a romance. In a romance novel, story or poem, there can certainly be a mystery, but the romance takes precedence, and the mystery is secondary. In romantic suspense, you have romance, mystery and elements of a thriller, all combined. However, the love interest still dominates. Cross-genre romance stories, novels and poems have become more complex.
Today, we see romancing fantasy, romantic horror, romantic thrillers, romantic westerns, science fiction, mysteries, comedy, along with 'traditional' tales or love and romance. The romance can be subtle or explicit, from a light touch to vivid erotica. We also see today a growing number of men who read tales of romance. As of 2011, per the Romance Writers of America, 9% of readers are men. The most commonly blended tales today are romance and suspense.
http://www.rwa.org/cs/readership_stats
Setting the scene by showing both the overt acts and internal conflicts of the lovers (or potential lovers) simultaneously defines the alternate thread in a blended romance. The quest that is an adventure, a mystery for lovers to solve together or in order to becoming together In cross-genre romance writing, more than one kind of fiction or image is combined to create and develop a unique story or poem - as creative as the writer who weaves the images in lyric prose and verse.
Sensory immersion - in the setting - people, places and things with which the heroine/hero interacts, creates a vivid image into which the reader is drawn. Now, romantic scenes are sensuous, as experienced through the eyes and imagination of the heroine/hero. Sensuous descriptions and interactions are subtle, creative and composed in part of the vision and imagination of the characters; allow your reader to experience this as well.
The main plot of a romance novel usually revolves around two people as they develop romantic love for each other and work to build a relationship together. Both the conflict and the climax of the novel are directly related to that core theme of developing a romantic relationship, although the novel contains subplots that do not specifically relate to the main characters' romantic love.
In blended tales of romance, as in traditional romantic 'adventures,' showing the inner thoughts and feelings of characters, the conflicts they feel as well as experience as they seek to know each other, creates sympathy - or even better, empathy - for the lovers and immerses the reader into the vehicle used to do so. The mystery, the horror, the comedy, the adventure that they must undertake to attain the satisfactory resolution of their feelings and desires. A mainstay in romance stories is the interplay between the heroine and the hero throughout the plot, which actually supersedes the plot, becoming the reason to keep going ~ to resolve the inner conflict and afford the heroine and the hero happiness and/or satisfaction.
Note the "and/or," as I believe that not all romance ends in happiness, but each has a satisfying resolution for at least one of the characters and, of course, our readers .
Kate
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Let's take a romantic interlude and see how members of our Community create tales of love and romance by painting outside the lines, to blend in prose and verse romance + love, mystery, comedy, science fiction,suspense, and more Then, consider the 'challenges' that may induce your muse creative to weave a multi-faceted romance in prose or verse
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I thank you for your hospitality for this guest, and for sharing this exploration with me. Think about it, writing romance, in verse and in prose, is as versatile and creative as each and every one of us.
I invite you to have fun creating and sharing tales romantic, taking any meandering path you choose, to coloring outside the lines
Until we next meet,
Write On
Kate
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