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@summerkiska
Iāve been so focused on releasing Only Words that I havenāt done much on Tumblr for, well, awhile. But look at that! My book is out! Still working on getting the print version released, but the e-book is available on Amazon now!
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@the-kings-pancakes
Insisting on happy endings isnāt about denying innovation. The genre innovates and grows constantly.
But the happy ending is a tenant of the genre and has been since the beginning. Itās not some tired trope that can be inverted or subverted. Itās a fundamental facet of the genre. Like the magic in fantasy, or advanced technology in sci-fi. There are just somethings that are the hallmarks of a genre. For the romance one of those hallmarks is the happy ending.
If I doesnāt end happily it just isnāt a romance novel.
Whatās more, calling the addition of sad endings to the genre āinnovationā smacks of the criticism romance too often recieves for being āunrealisticā or ātoo optimisticā. Our novels are considered to be less valuable, and are disdained as useless fluff or trash because we donāt embrace the way āthings really areā. Theyāre dismissed as silly love stories that supposedly distort our perceptions of reality. Donāt we know that things just donāt work out like that in really life?
Yeah. We do. But what they donāt understand is that forcing unhappy or tragic endings into a genre that is devoted to optimism and hope is anathema to romance readers and writers. Thereās enough of that kind of ārealityā in other genres. Thatās not why we read romances.
So this isnāt about stalling out the genreās growth. It evolves every year.
This is about what makes a romance. Which is not defined by some arbitrary set of rules we just make up exexclude people from our sandbox. What makes a romance has been defined by the desires and expectations of generations of readers and writers.
Getting writers to understand that is for their own good as well. Because if you market a tragedy as a romance because you want to āinnovateā the genre? All its going to get you is bad reviews, angry readers, and poor sales.
One of the problems with this perception of how happy endings are somehow limiting for romance novels is that it so often comes from people who donāt read them. So thereās this failure to see that innovation within romance is about how you get your characters to their unique happy endings. The rules provide the innovation. āHow do you innovate within this structureā is a much harder challenge than ādo whatever you want,ā especially when the ādo whatever you wantā side of things is the culturally approved one that is āgoodā and āliterary.ā
And of course, itās not like love stories that end sadly or without that emotional satisfaction cannot be published. Me Before You was a runaway bestseller and a successful movie. So was The Fault in Our Stars. Love stories that end sadly are published frequently. They just arenāt romance novels.
Not to mention the inherent misogyny in thinking that womenās happiness is somehow less mature or enlightened than womenās suffering.
Happy ending for women ā> tragic ending for women isnāt progress.
Womenās suffering isnāt innovative. Itās the status quo.
āThe cruel irony of being a writer is that I can never find the words.ā
ā Cyrene Beckett, Cyrene of A&A
Write in the tags that movie youāve seen so many times over so many years that even though you havenāt seen it in a bit, you can still recite every line as it happens
Plot twist: actually writing things instead of just thinking about them is kinda fun sometimes
I didnāt see that comingā¦justā¦mindblown
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hey guys iām 100% new to the writeblr community but iād love to meet ppl hereĀ š if anyone out there wants to like/reblog iād love to find new blogs to follow and ppl to chat with ; v ;Ā š
Eyy welcome to writeblr! ^^
Forgot Tumblr existed there for a while due to:
So this is actually really good advice. The reason is thisā¦ people often need to talk out their problems. They may know the answer, but hearing it outloud often causes a spark of clarity that being in your head canāt do. Itās why one of the best pieces of advice when problem-solving is āTalk it out.ā
@ingridlake
This is me every single time Iām stuck on a plot point.
This is absolutely correct.
If writing advice doesnāt work for you, donāt use it.
Canāt write every day? Donāt. Prefer to write every day? Cool, do that. If you find outlining useful, outline. Maybe try it, and if it doesnāt help you, donāt force yourself to stick with it. Use the adviceāprocess-wise, stylistically, plot-wiseāthat makes your stories better, and if it isnāt working, find something else that will.
Reading through that one part you wrote at 3AM when you were pretty convinced you were the next Stephen King:
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āThe less you say, the more your words will matter.ā
ā Rae Carson, The Kingās Guard
It would be cool if after you died you could see the top 5 times you almost died
5 times you didnāt die and one time you did
(via Book Review: Missing by Ann Jones)
Writing agent Jonny Geller gives advice to young writers.Ā
Itās important to keep in mind that when he says āweā or āusā or āreadersā he cannot really speak for anyone but himself and his agency.
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Reblog if you say "fuck" more than 5 times a day.
When you try to skip ahead in your WIP but then realize thereās so much more background / foundation you need to write first:
