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Someone must like Romance novels: it's nearly triple the sales of SF/Fantasy: "...romance fiction was a 26.4 percent share of all market categories in 2006." Book Sales Stats
Yr 2006 * Romance: $1.37 billion * Religion/inspirational: $1.68 billion * Science fiction/fantasy: $495 million * Classic literary fiction: $448 million * Mystery: $422 million * Graphic novels: $128 million
(Reprinted at above link from Rom. Writers of America)
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Of course, there are people who like romance. No one said otherwise. I said I am not one of them. Writing it is tempting because it has a large market share. The stuff is said to be easy to sell--but if I hate reading it, I have to assume I wouldn't be good at writing it.
Annepin is right that there is a lot of variety in the types of characters in romances. It's no longer the weepy little woman is pursued by the dark brooding hero who slaps her around until she falls swooning into his arms.
I read some when I thought about writing it. What puts me off is that the central plot line HAS to be the romance. I have no problem with romance as a subplot. Humans after all do fall in love. But when it's the end all and be all of the plot, I can't help but yawn.
Yeah, that was my reaction to the surrender thing, annepin--I can't see it as a positive but I don't want to get hung up on it either.
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I think, as others have pointed out, the most important facet of a sexual encounter (as any encounter in fiction) is the effect the encounter has upon the characters. We want to know how they feel about it, which will tell us a lot about how those characters approach both sexual and non-sexual relationships, how they form bonds of commitment, what their thought processes are when under stress or immense pleasure.
Stories are about characters; we get to know characters through their thoughts and through their relationships with other characters. Tell us their motivations, and flesh out the relationship between sexual partners as thoroughly as possible.
I'm reminded of the song "Angel of the Morning," by Merrilee Rush. We don't get a graphic depiction of any sex acts in her lyrics, but we get a poignant and detailed account of the speaker's emotional response to implied acts. This is not to imply that one ought to go about writing sex scenes this way, but this method is very effective.
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sorry i get carryed away, deployment stress i think. it is getting hard to keep controle of it. what i was trying to imply but lost it, is love is a lot different than just sex. i am still trying to comprehend the human mind set behind sex and love.
love is something that spains all races (humand, werewolves, vampires, dragons,etc.) but just having sex is realy unique to humans but recently spred to other races.
us immortals are usely under some law or pact that prevents breeding outside marege punishable by death. (hard to beleve) another reason my pack was so unique each member was aloued to marry and breed. the main reason i have been banished by the councle.
i however have not found a love yet. i keep my standers high.
in a way i think humans need to learn where to draw the line. playboy, and other such advertisments and porn studios should be more awhere of the mind set of how this affects others.
the saying make love not war is father from the truth than that crippled physisest guy (his name excapes me) clames what the meaning of the univers is. if anything the statment will upset people in contries (such as where i am now) whos religon strictly prohibits things like that.
for this statement to realy work the human race has to grow up more. (10,000 years is nothing compaired to other races.)
my favoret saying within the immortals is HIV/AIDS IS THE CURE FOR THE HUMAN PLAG
i dont know maybe i am wrong or just another crazy werewolf.
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Okay, this discussion needs to get back to the question, which was how graphic do you write your sex scenes. Let's leave the morals discussion behind or I will lock this topic.
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Well, ignoring the well known troll who posted shortly above me, I hope we're still free to let threads evolve... since one subject can easily spark another that is still perfectly relevant to writing, which is exactly what 'Graff did. Just before Rommel decided to troll wuith his post, as he usually does.
Hmm. It really makes me wonder why some people just get away with it.
quote:us immortals are usely under some law or pact that prevents breeding outside marege punishable by death. (hard to beleve) another reason my pack was so unique each member was aloued to marry and breed. the main reason i have been banished by the councle.
i however have not found a love yet. i keep my standers high
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