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Originally Posted by romancenovels
The ingredients are all sort of emotions taken together. Start from anticipation, awe, disappointment, contempt and anxiety. Then put optimism, attraction and aggression. Lesser the dose of jealousy, anger and remorse, the better is the finish product.
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AFAIK, the ingredients are:
1. She is lonely; orphan or escaping a bad family; she is pretty, fit and young (not gorgeous)
2. She goes in a place (house, island, manor, castle, villa...) where a secret is kept
3. She meets two men: a "regular" gentleman-like, and a younger strange, rebel or creepy one.
4. She falls in love with the first, creating jealousy of other interested female characters.
5. She strives with a strong and dominant woman
6. The secret is revealed, and the gentleman is revealed as the evil one
7. The younger appears as the good guy. Better than he was at the beginning, having learned a lesson from the heroine.
8. Sex is described by analogy ("the waves of pleasure were alternating on the shore of Jane's soul...")
9. She makes sex after a strong resistance, and never by her initiative
10. At the end, most characters have experienced a personal growth.
for "Romance of the first kind"
Or:
1. She is gorgeous with huge breasts. She's very young (not under age, though).
2. She goes in a place where she meets lots of people with dirty little secrets.
3. She goes in bed with all of them (men, women, groups), and she is the one who looks for it.
4. Sometimes animals are involved, too.
5. If other women are jealous, they react going in bed with her boyfriends.
6. Sex is described with anatomical precision, and more often than not, toys and accessories are used.
7. At the end, everybody is happier than before, and she goes away leaving good memories of her.
For the "romance of the kind", sometimes called "porn".
They are typically one-week-rent-payer works. Lots of writer have done it (like Dean Koonts), always with female pseudonyms.
