 Romance/Love: May 08, 2013 Issue [#5654] |
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This week: Consider Your Audience Edited by: Annette  
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Consider Your Audience
As you write in the Romance/Love genre, consider who will read your pieces.
Contest Hosts
These are a great audience. They've already told you what they want. There might be a prompt, which gives you an idea where to start. The host will let you know the expected rating, the length of your piece, and also whether you have to deliver a story, novel, or a poem.
Young Adult Audience
The YA readers are a fun population to write for. They are open-minded, playful, and often ready and willing to accept even very quirky plot lines. When writing for the YA audience, you may include hints to sensuality as long as it's not too graphic or even shown. Lengthy descriptions of heart-ache, insecurities, and changes of mind are accepted and even desired. From the books that have been selling recently, it seems to me first person combined with present tense are a good way to go about this.
Adult Audience
This audience is roughly divided into two.
There are those who want a sopping love story where the main aspect of the story is character driven. The plot should revolve around relationships, drama, and loads of sweet-talk. If there is any sensuality, it should be alluded to instead of show in graphic language. An example could be writing about the bed on the morning after with the sheets tangled. What happened on the way to those tangled sheets is left to the reader's imagination.
The other side wants to read romance that is heavy in sensual scenes. The language can be a little rougher. There has to be plot, but it can be designed to create the backdrop for intimate encounters. The intimacy in these books should be narrated fully. Where the more romantic readers were happy to see what the bed looked like the next day, this adult reader wants to know beat by beat what happened while the sheets tangled.
What person and what tense for the adult audience? The biggest recent best-seller with the number 50 in its title was written in first person and present tense. I've read other books that use third person and past tense for narration, which I find more relaxing to read. Both styles can work for romance, and it's up to you, the writer, to decide which way to go on that.
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There were a couple of comments on my last Romance/Love newsletter "Use Words To Show Love" .
BIG BAD WOLF Feeling Thankful  wrote: Beware of werewolves. "Eggnog and Werewolves Part 3"
Always.
Elle - on hiatus wrote: Here's a new way to look at a love letter. I'm researching mine and my husband's family history. We found a letter (written in the most beautiful calligraphy) from his great-grandfather to his great-grandmother when they first started courting. It is amazing. A snapshot of time, place, people and emotion. A real treasure and an infinitely valuable piece of family history. You never know who will cherish the words you leave behind.
In a day and age of online updates, I wonder how many of those treasures the coming generations will be able to find. 
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