Thread: Do you write in your favourite genres?
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Old 02-17-2011, 06:52 PM   #23
John Carroll
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Originally Posted by C.I.Bond View Post
I’m thinking that this would be like watching a train wreck. No offense but writing takes passion. It’s possible you are such a fantastic writer that you could pull this off but I would crash and burn… LOL... Actually I wouldn’t but I would just turn the thing into dark erotica and probably shock a few people, my husband included.

Romance has some very specialized requirements – that’s the thing that’s going to get you, the paranormal part is a lot easier (half of them seem to have weak world building at IMHO) but it is really just the spice in the stew – Romance is the meat of the story. And even if you did a fantastic job you would now have a bunch of PNR fans and they would demand another PNR from you. Then what would you do?
You are absolutely correct. The experiment didn't work at all. Luckily I only got a paragraph into it and I'm not going to torture anyone with that paragraph.

My primary genre is fantasy and the more I write, the more it becomes certain to me. My secondary genre is . . . weird. Anything that's just weird or off the wall.
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