Recent content by ProfoundlyFadedPrincess

Actually, that isn't true. The rules of a genre are not defined by its audience, oddly enough it's more defined by a publisher. Also, technically, one does not write in one genre or another, but as writers, we actually contribute to a genre, thus we are able to alter a genre over time by...

So basically, in your opinion, if I reject some of the elements of the Romance Genre, then it can't be romance, but just a love story? So things like Romeo and Juliet - the great Romantic Tragedy, and novels such as Hold Back the Stars, which are lacking the Happily Ever After aren't romances...

Without trying to sound haughty, I have read plenty of romance, and I guess my issue is I don't like the structure of romance novels. If we know there is to be the happy ended then why do we repeatedly thrive on the same narrative form that has pretty much turned into 'same story, new faces'.

So, my question relates to writing a B-Plot Romance. The piece is largely a murder mystery but the secondary plot is about a couple who stumble on one another in the course of the story, and I'm actually a bit stuck on how to write a compelling romance as a B-Plot Line. Does anyone have...

Have a read, if you have time, of Christopher Booker's mammoth book, The Seven Basic Plots. You'll see how similar loads of novel, movies and TV series really are. I use the book when I'm outlining to enhance my narrative structure and to use elements from it to improve on Character bits or...

While I think considering Matrilineal Descent is an interesting option to consider, this world practices Absolute Primogeniture. But it might be worth considering Matrilineal Primogeniture as being the forerunner, and still used to denote things such as inheritance when there is a lack of living...

Hello everyone, I've been pondering how I can use alter the concept of marriage for my novel. Mostly, I want to do away with it, but I still want to recognise people's rights to have a spouse - but this is more for the nobility in denoting who is one person or the other's consort or...

I have heard it said about poetry, but even then not as hard and fast rule. You shorten everything you run the risk of losing nuance.

I think Nimue does a great job of summing up my worries. I've been away for the majority of the weekend and had some time to contemplate this without being able to get at my computer - I'm actually considering moving him as the second murder (technically the fourth) to flesh Rydal out and...

With dialogue, I find I never get it right the first time. If I'm struggling, at worse I just write the dialogue so it's on the page and then I come back to it after it's had some time to fester on the page. After a few look overs, I then start to craft it. Eventually, it will work together.

So, there is what is going on - Rydal's mother demands that if Mithiéń, the Queen, can't produce a child, then he does so. Rydal is the second oldest of four siblings, after him, there is Aíwin, who is the half-brother and Pavel, who unbeknownst to all of them is also a half-brother of Mithiéń...

Well met CupofJoe Procrastination is an ability I excel in, but don't we all? PFPx

It is probably one of the biggest no-no's in modern writing and has been rightly made so by the overuse of this trope when dealing with gay characters in a bid to be more representative, but I would like some advice on how to work with a gay character's death in my novel. When I outlined him...

Hi, Thought I'd drop into the intro threads to say hello. I'm currently working on a novel I've just finished outlining and wanted to get some support from other writers etc. No doubt you'll be seeing me posting around the place. PFPx