3 Things I Try to Do in My Romance Books

                                           

                                                                   

 I have started to wonder about my writing like why I am writing what I am writing? Creativity is a thing in and of itself that moves at its own will, so it is not me putting other writers on blast for what they write. I understand what suits the story may not suit everyone. It is more about me and what I am comfortable writing.

 

I wonder if what I put on the page is good, not just interesting writing but is good for readers, something that feeds their soul and mind. I don’t believe that a story is just a story but lives in the minds of readers after it has been read. Stories move us and touches are behavior, if only lightly.

 

Writing love stories, which I love to do, I wonder if it is just enough to have a strong heroine, and caring hero? I like to try to write a love story that is both entertaining but also ethical. It is not something that I succeed at all the time. Maybe it is me getting older, but I find myself at a crossroads.

 

Writing romance stories is fun and I would not trade it for anything, but how I write them I have decided to do some things.

 

#1 They Must Be Married

 

I like my characters to be married before they joined their bodies in ecstasy. I haven’t always done this, but I am doing this more often. I have enjoyed books where the characters get to know each other through sex and who were not married, but I am more comfortable having with my hero and heroine having sex if they are married.

 

#2  Must Show Them Using Birth Control

Everybody knows that sometimes birth control fails especially if you read romance novels, but I describe my characters putting on a condom or being on contraception.  I just did write a story where the hero and heroine were married but were estranged. The heroine gets pregnant, so I guess even I use the plot point where the couple is overcome with passion and fail to use contraception. Nevertheless, it must be shown that two adults are behaving for the most part responsibly.

 

#3 They Talk To Each Other

 

I prefer a hero and heroine who talk to each other, because it brings them closer together and show, through dialogue, them falling in love.  Again, if the plot calls for a little drama, I might not have them talk so readily. However, I will have them talk to show them getting to know one another and instead of having them assuming things.  

 

Conclusion

Whether you believe that what comes out on the page is what comes out i.e., it is what it is, but writing gives it shape, carves it into something that your readers will love and like.  If in the shaping of it, you decide to leave out certain things, it is simply not a creative choice but also an ethical one.

There are a lot of different types of romances for different types of readers. After all, readers aren’t children that need to be taken care of. They choose what they want to read, and they are the best people to decide what their preferences are. I could write sweet or clean romances, and maybe one day I will, but for now I write romances with love scenes in them.  Have you read a romance novel or other type of book where you were shocked at what was written?