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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I'm guessing you can't have pages and pages of carnage with teeth and blood flying everywhere, but is something like "he stood back and watched her stick the boot in, welling up with pride" acceptable in these sort of things? Or picking up a broken bottle and ramming it in someone's face, without going into any further details?
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Check out Laurell K Hamilton's stuff from before she went off the deep end. "Burnt Offerings" is all about people being burnt alive, and Anita Blake is totally all scarred up from being vampire attacked.
Some have classified my stuff as romance because characters form a relationship, but I also kill a lot of people. Then again, mm romance is an outgrowth of slash fanfiction, and a lot of that is plotty porn with some deeper pieces thrown in.
I figure what you need to do is write the story you want to write and don't worry about targeting a specific audience. "If you write it, they will come..."