:) I'd call that a finished rough draft, too. You have the framework, the rest is editing.
I'm worried you might be right. Unless I find a conventional romance plot and characters that I can get excited about, I'm not even likely to finish the novel. I've nothing against writing romance, I love writing romance, it's just the conventions of romance writing I find off-putting. Historical romances I'm more comfortable with. Setting does a lot. Maybe if I just find the right setting and the right characters and some loophole that lets me write a hero I like i can do this and like it!
I actually already started on one romance novel which would have been a WWI crossdressing lady soldier romance with a fellow officer who's instantly on to her but may or may not be an enemy agent, but that sort of petered out; also, as a hero, he was a little too ambigious. I had a lot of fun with the action scenes though. (Which was a bit of a surprise; I don't usually write action.) Maybe if I rethink the hero and do a bit more research I can see if I can start that one up again. I'll keep it on hold, anyway.
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Date: 2009-08-16 08:47 am (UTC)I'm worried you might be right. Unless I find a conventional romance plot and characters that I can get excited about, I'm not even likely to finish the novel. I've nothing against writing romance, I love writing romance, it's just the conventions of romance writing I find off-putting. Historical romances I'm more comfortable with. Setting does a lot. Maybe if I just find the right setting and the right characters and some loophole that lets me write a hero I like i can do this and like it!
I actually already started on one romance novel which would have been a WWI crossdressing lady soldier romance with a fellow officer who's instantly on to her but may or may not be an enemy agent, but that sort of petered out; also, as a hero, he was a little too ambigious. I had a lot of fun with the action scenes though. (Which was a bit of a surprise; I don't usually write action.) Maybe if I rethink the hero and do a bit more research I can see if I can start that one up again. I'll keep it on hold, anyway.