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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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LOL!! I soooo get that, Denise!!! I love music--I don't even mind the old time musicals once in a GREAT while (especially, since I watch them on DVD and can skip the songs), but as a rule, it's not my thing.
I do exactly what you do and allow my mind to wander to my own WIP and I work out some plot issues.
Colleen talked me into going to see The Phantom of the Opera (I know I'll get hate mail on this)--and I'm sorry to all you fans out there, but I thought I would go out of my mind with that show. So much singing!!! Just tell me and be done with it already!!!
Okay, now that I've got Colleen's attention, we can have some real conversation on here--something tells me we might even touch on the evils of diet pop and the color brown, but I don't mind. Hearing strains of Doris Day now, "Que Sera, Sera" . . . . :-)
I'm laughing, Di, because I was about to say I like musicals if the music is good. Like Phantom of the Opera. LOL!
I feel your pain, D. They should never let grown men have bidpals. LOL
Mel is right there with you, girls, although he really did love Phantom of the Opera on DVD, just not as many times as I did. Any time anyone anywhere breaks out in song during a movie, he just groans and says "Shoot me now."
Everything has music in it. Watch your favorite television series. Just because the actors don't sing--and sometimes they do--the music is always framing the drama or romance of every scene. We just don't have to wait for it to end before the action continues.
So glad to know I'm in good company. The only musical I didn't mind--and we have seen PLENTY--is Joseph and the Techincolor Dream Coat. Reason being, the lyrics of the songs progress the story. You have to follow along to know what happens between the current scene and the one that follows. Plus the lyrics are funny. :-)
Oh man, I'm the opposite. LOVE musicals! Les Miserable, Phantom, Chorus Line, CATS, Beauty and the Beast ... seen 'em all! One of my favorite movies of all time is Singing in the Rain. Maybe it's because I have a terrible voice and two left feet (so my kids tell me). Lol
Unless it is an animated movie, I do not like musicals. Just get on with telling the story already! So glad to know I am not the only one who doesn't care for musicals.
Denise, please loan Kevin to me. I adore musicals, on film and on stage. I have seen Beauty & the Beast on Broadway three times. Phantom of the Opera; Miss Saigon; Sunset Boulevard; Damn Yankees; Les Mis; Cats; etc. Just saw The Color Purple in Boise a couple of weekends ago.
Sigh. To find a hero who would take me to musicals and the theater on a regular basis... Sigh...
I know, I know, Robin. How many women would love a husband that took her to musicals. That is not my love language. LOL
My DH used to HATE musicals for the same reason: too much song for the story. But that changed one afternoon when we went to see "South Pacific" in Boston with Robert Goulet. (swoon!!) I know. I'm dating myself here but that's why I talked DH into taking me. I just HAD to see Robert Goulet! LOL
Anyway, we weren't more than about a quarter through the show when DH starts asking me what was to happen next. Even the songs kept him on the edge of his seat! Granted, the acting and singing were all top notch but the story line didn't hurt my old sailor any, either.
So now, when we can afford it and are planning to go to the theater, DH always looks for a musical. Go figure.
No musicals for me either. I actually don't enjoy live theater at all. I'd rather watch an old movie and if that happens to be a musical...I fast forward through the songs (drives my hubby crazy!)
I've made the same comment before about someone stopping what they're doing to sing before, but I still like musicals. When done well, the songs move us emotionally in a way that a play or a book can't. The corniness of it is just a product of the method used to tell the story. The fact is that when we write novels we run into similar issues. We adjust things to elicit an emotional response from the reader, but in doing so we introduce things that are unlikely to happen in real life.
ROTFL!!!!
My husband is with you, Denise. He hates both plays and musicals. Our sons all were in drama club and our oldest was in musicals. He would try everything to get out of going, but then would go. (He's a good dad.)
Me, I like them! Well, there was one play (in civic theater) where I would've walked out with Chris if we hadn't been invited by this other couple. That was AWFUL. LOL. (My critic's eye...)
"I mean, really, who stops their life every few minutes to sing about what just happened? "
Hahaha! Exactly. :)
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