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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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Personally, I think writer’s block is a myth, but I’ve been stuck more than a few times. My stuckness usually comes from not fully understanding the events that would lead up to the event in the plot that must take place for the story to work. I run into things like why would a woman leave a loving husband or why would a teenager want to fake her own death? I’m still stuck on that last one. And more recently, I’ve been stuck on how do I show readers that it is significant that a female character accomplishes something that the male protagonist was trying to accomplish?
For the first kind of stuckness, it find it helps to break it down in smaller pieces and work backwards. Instead of thinking about a woman leaving a loving husband, I think instead about the tipping point that caused her to pack her clothes and walk out the door while he was at work—a call from her boyfriend, for example. Then I can think about what led to her having a boyfriend—maybe a business trip with one of her male co-workers.
The second kind of stuckness is harder because I’m fighting against the way a lot of people think the world ought to work and the way it does work. It may be necessary to draw upon the playground taunts, “You run like a girl.” But in my case it gets interesting because the story is inspired a Bible story in which it is a woman who is chiding a man for allowing a woman to usurp his honor. I’m not sure if I’m completely unstuck on this one, but my approach is to stay even more true to the Bible account in this area than in other areas of the story. Other than that, I’m looking for ways to show why the woman shouldn’t have been forced to do what she ends up doing.
Love your scene bubbles! For a second before I looked at the picture, I thought maybe you were using a program to make bubbles. I should have known better with Miss Pencil and Paper Girl. LOL
Great post, D!
Thank you, Girls!
I appreciate you sharing about the writing experience and solutions.
My problem is when to listen to that internal editor. I will be in the middle of writing a scene and hear, "you're about to write the scene like that?" Ugh! What to do?
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