Feo Takahari
Auror
Since I like reading about people in love, I've been trying to read paranormal romances lately, and it's become pretty obvious that the genre doesn't have the same stylistic standards as the sci-fi and urban fantasy I normally read. So far, I haven't found any romance writers who use a "polished" style in which word sounds and sentence structures are carefully arranged for maximum impact. With that in mind, if I try to write paranormal romance, should I:
1): Put in effort to be polished, as I normally do? It's what I know how to do, and there must be some market for it.
2A): Write at my natural level of polish, but put no effort into polishing further?
2B): Take advantage of this lowered standard to experiment with "bad" writing techniques that fit the style and subject of the story? (For instance, one writer switches between two POVs in the same paragraph, conveying that the two characters are in sync with each other.)
3): Put in effort to make my writing less polished, and more like the most popular stories in the genre?
1): Put in effort to be polished, as I normally do? It's what I know how to do, and there must be some market for it.
2A): Write at my natural level of polish, but put no effort into polishing further?
2B): Take advantage of this lowered standard to experiment with "bad" writing techniques that fit the style and subject of the story? (For instance, one writer switches between two POVs in the same paragraph, conveying that the two characters are in sync with each other.)
3): Put in effort to make my writing less polished, and more like the most popular stories in the genre?