Saturday from The Cottage of Blog
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Good afternoon from The Cottage of Blog where the coffee's just been made fresh, and I stopped into Panera Bread for soup, sandwiches and a Frappucino. I've saved half for this evening.
After fretting for the entire day, I managed to squeak out the epilogue for Legacy. I think it was an article I read about events and parallel events taking place in the story that broke me through. There should be a plot altering event within a plot that will take shape one way. Then, this same event, probably in a different setting and approached a different way will be reenacted and this time the outcome will be different. It will show your character's growth.
Example: Early on my hero proposes to heroine. Not because he loves her (he does) or that she loves him (she does) but because she's in trouble and it will be a "marriage of convenience" a temporary arrangement until the trouble is resolved. Both agree. Temporary. No strings at the end. I mean, why would I want to be hooked up with YOU for the rest of my life? LOL
Second proposal comes after the climax-black moment is over (they think) and hero is having thoughts about staying married. He approaches the subject. She gets a horrified look on her face. He doesn't know it's because she sees the ghost that's been haunting them in the background. he's supposed to have gone away but hasn't.
Hero is devastated by her reaction thinking she was reacting to him. He's pulled away by the State Department and doesn't have a chance to discover the reason for her reaction. Don't you love miscommunications? At least he knows what he wants though.
Third proposal comes in the epilogue. Second disastrous and near tragic moment is over. She's recovering. He proposes again. This time he buys her a wedding costume. (see chapter 2 when he gives her the costume she'd gotten married in (he didn't know what was in the box) and unleashes a ghost. This time the costume is new. he's picked it out. She's loves him. She's happy. Different reaction. We all live happily ever after and I get to get rid of them hopefully to some happy publisher.
See? I thought that was very interesting. It pulled me out of, at least part of, my funk. So it's on to the other brick wall.
Today I tackle my villains. I'm going to give them a personal identity. I think that's the other plot hole. I don't know my villains well enough.
Wish me luck. I really want to finish this before I die.
You'll notice I'm not mentioning the RWA convention. I wasn't there. I've heard a lot of sides. I've given considerable thought to Ms. Nora Roberts, who I dearly love as an author. If she's half as wonderful in person, I'd consider myself lucky to know her.
I've thought how I would react in her shoes. Today? If someone asked me to host the social event of the romance world, you know I'd leap at the opportunity. Would I have boycotted? Today? Doubtful. Very doubtful. Who would know or care? Plus, I wouldn't be asked.
However, if I were her? Maybe the answer would be the same. Given the tension in the air the dissention among the ranks and the hard feelings going back and forth between factions, I might have gotten up there and tried to diffuse the situation with a little humor. It's just a reaction I got. You all can disagree with me, if you wish. I give Nora credit for doing what SHE thought was right. It couldn't have been an easy decision for her.
As for anyone telling me I shouldn't talk about it--well, I wasn't going to, but now because someone did (Brenda who?) I will and just did.
I'm not a big fan of erotica. I've tried. Goodness knows I love to get to the "good parts" just like everyone else. But thinking things through and usually being able to add two and two to equal five, I think erotica is a form of romance if it has any kind of emotional attachment between the two lovers. Otherwise, it's probably just porn. And that's a fine line. Romance implies love. So if the setting happens to be the bedroom from chapter 1 to chapter 15 acting out all kinds of "stuff" between the two consenting adults, and if this activity leads them to discover they can't live without each other--well, so be it. I know that straight raw sex has led to marriages in the the past, present and future. So, why should it be excluded from the romance genre? I dont' have to read it in that format. Others can. But let it be its own genre.
Anyway, that's all from The Cottage of Blog for today. Write me if you agree, disagree or don't really give a darn.
Happy readying, writing and revising.
Pat
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