It's the old axiom about an author knowing the rules well enough to know when and where to break them. I want the story to remain close enough to formula that it's not genre-breaking. I like the comfort-food aspect of the genre, but I don't want it to be so on point that I start writing inward parodies as I read
Yep. You want the candy without the heartburn. Or something along those lines.
I need the women in these things to be bit stronger...some of them are so wimpy. Smartbitches (a web site that provides reviews and discussion on romance novels), stated once that there's a lot of internalize misogyny in some of these novels. The genders get exaggerated.
Then there's the Mary Sue heroine, who is good at everything and you just want to smack the writer.
Or...what you state above...you find yourself rolling your eyes.
It's a weird genre. Yes, the mystery, sci-fi, fantasy genres all have similar issues...but not to quite the same degree.
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Date: 2014-01-22 12:19 am (UTC)Yep. You want the candy without the heartburn. Or something along those lines.
I need the women in these things to be bit stronger...some of them are so wimpy. Smartbitches (a web site that provides reviews and discussion on romance novels), stated once that there's a lot of internalize misogyny in some of these novels. The genders get exaggerated.
Then there's the Mary Sue heroine, who is good at everything and you just want to smack the writer.
Or...what you state above...you find yourself rolling your eyes.
It's a weird genre. Yes, the mystery, sci-fi, fantasy genres all have similar issues...but not to quite the same degree.