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Romance/Love: November 16, 2016 Issue [#7954]

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 This week: Historical Romance
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Historical Romance


Go ahead and write history the way you want it to be.


How realistic does your historical romance have to be?


When we read "Historical Romance" as a genre description, the most common associations are going to be some sort of medieval or at least Victorian romance. There always seem to be a lot of rules that everybody has to follow. The characters are not only trapped by the lack of electricity, but also by behavior norms that restrict their actions.

A lot of historical romances assume that men are largely able to do anything they want while women are relegated to being passive or have to be a rebel in order to have aspirations that go beyond crocheting the best tablecloth. Historical romance might also involve indigenous people who have to be saved by the historical hero and his love interest. Or his love interest is one of the threatened indigenous people.

As you write your version of historical romance, free yourself from the usual confines of school history lessons. Create a past the way you want it to be. Make the horse a steam-punk spider. Oh wait. Somebody already did that. Make the indigenous villagers who are "discovered" the superior actor in the story and have them save the explorer - not to their detriment.

Figure out how to give all characters a shot at romance within a historic backdrop that you shape. A man might try to win the heart of a woman not by being the strongest, but by being the kindest. A woman might try to win the heart of a woman without fearing for her life. We are writing fiction, and even something like historical romance doesn't need to be actual history as found in the school books. So write your romantic fiction within a past you want to see.



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I received the following comments for my last Romance/Love newsletter "Romantic or Steamy Romance" Open in new Window..

SB Musing Author Icon wrote: Thanks so much for mentioning my story in this newsletter. Also, really dig that you focus on the flowery, more heated, and then absolutely steamy side of romance. All about the steam myself and enjoyed reading this.

Thank you for your kind comment. And I can emphasize with steamy. That's more of my romance too. *Blush*

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