On Writing Romance

[angie_frazier]

If you'd asked me ten years ago if I'd ever consider myself a romance writer, I would have laughed. Worse, I probably would have turned my nose up at the idea of it.

Me? A romance novelist? Ha! I wouldn't write that stuff in a million years.

But the more I read, in both the adult and the YA fiction markets, the more I started to realize just how

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The Stigma of Romance

[heartnpen]

Romance comes in all forms, and you're so right when it comes to the double standards regarding the genre. For some time I've found myself revisiting old "trashy" romances and finding it such a fun escape; it's that escape that kind of has me seeing my writing process differently for the same exact points you've mentioned in your post

Re: The Stigma of Romance

[angie_frazier]

So well put! And what I've found from the dozen or so romances I've read (I'm still a newbie) is that the heroines are far from damsels in distress. They've all been strong, stubborn, witty women who refuse to let a man control them.