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Colleen Coble writes romantic suspense with a strong atmospheric element. A lovable animal of some kind--usually a dog--always populates her novels. She can be bribed with DeBrand mocha truffles.
Denise Hunter writes women's fiction and love stories with a strong emotional element. Her husband says he provides her with all her romantic material, but Denise insists a good imagination helps too.
Diann Hunt writes romantic comedy and humorous women's fiction. She has been happily married forever, loves her family, chocolate, her friends, chocolate, her dog, and well, chocolate.
Cheryl Hodde writes romantic medical suspense under the pen name of Hannah Alexander, using all the input she can get from her husband, Mel, for the medical expertise. For fun she hikes and reads. Out of guilt, she rescues discarded cats. She and Mel are presently taking orders from four pampered strays.
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Well said, Denise. Or, I write a scene and realize it's good, cute, but oh, could be so much better if I added some CONFLICT!
:) What you need is a flat tire on the winding road, or a tornado out of no where or terrorist careening past you on a double yellow. ;)
You are a beautiful writer! Never forget it.
Rachel
I feel your pain :-) Oh and even though I know that edits are a part of the game, I hate knowing that the scene I'm writing, dead as it may be, just may get the axe.
Just throw in a good mushy kiss - that'll divert everyone's attention if you don't know where you're at! :)
I was once told that writing Science Fiction meant that you didn't have to worry about road blocks because you can just 'make stuff up'...a good example would be the transporter on Star Trek. Roddenberry could not aford to have the Enterprise land on a planet each week so they invented a transporter. However, I'm trying to keep my character driven stories as real as possible and so transporters, phasers, warp drive, hyper drive, aliens...I get to use none of it and when you hit a 'road block' in space, there's no oxygen and (to quote the tag line from ALIEN) in space, no one can hear you scream.
(sorry for all of the Sci-fi stuff, Denise. It won't happen again...unless it was in the form of a Sci-fi musical...)
Boy, do I realte the that, Denise! That's exactly how I write! I hate it when I don't know where to turn next. It frustrates the fire out of me! That's why I tend to plot more - outline. I need to fill in that road map a bit more.
I'm having this kind of trouble at the moment with my WIP. This manuscript will be the first I've ever tried to have represented by an agent and get published, so I suppose I'm stressing. Like you, I have the high points mapped out in my mind and on paper. But. I'm stuck in the middle not really knowing how to get to my destination. I know every scene needs some relevance to move the plot. No fluff allowed, but just once I'd love to have that luxury. I know it's a first draft but I try to treat any draft as if it's the final.
Some days I wonder why I put myself through this. :-)
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Believe me, Denise has no trouble adding conflict! I often wonder HOW ON EARTH she is going to get her characters out of the mess they're in. LOL
When I need to spice things up, I just kill someone. LOL
I totaly feel the same way, I was six fairly long chapters into a book with great plot and I realized I had led every character to a dead end, I couldn't do any thing. So with the encourgement from my mom I started over, now my book is bumping along on a nice country road and looking good. Maybe in a year or so it will b published.
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