Helio, if you want to have fun sometime, there is a very old collection of essays, if you can get your hands on it, that does an excellent job of breaking down romance as a genre, from language usage to tropes.I'm sorry if I overreacted Chessie. Thanks for the explanation I see how my words could have been interpreted that way. I spent the better part of this morning going back over them. I really was just trying to support you and Lowen, who I know both write romance, and who have shown in many ways that these scenes are often the best way of approaching your character's inner conflict. I honestly meant no disrespect to you or your genre. I'm sorry if did not articulate myself properly and put out the wrong information. You are correct in that I don't know everything about every singe genre, though I do study, and I do try
https://www.amazon.com/How-Write-Ro...75608&sr=8-25&keywords=how+to+write+a+romance
One of the reasons my language tends to be a little flowery is because my mother was a romance writer and raised me on this book, and others like this one...
https://www.amazon.com/Romance-Writ...&sr=1-1&keywords=romance+writer's+phrase+book