Unsolicited writing advice, 16511:
To write in a genre, it helps to have read a lot of recent novels in the same genre. The world is filled with people hoping to write a children's book, who haven't read one in decades, or people who think "romance sells", who haven't read any modern romance novels.
To write in a genre, it helps to have read a lot of recent novels in the same genre. The world is filled with people hoping to write a children's book, who haven't read one in decades, or people who think "romance sells", who haven't read any modern romance novels.
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Not an easy genre.
Everyone knows that.
Scifi writers like James S A Corey make up for the short falls by others.
You mentioned romance, so much of which is published every single day, and much of it terrible, is it all worth reading?
If you've lived and observed and experienced love and friction and participated in humanity, you've got the basics. Tell a good story.
In my experience, if you grab a random romance off Amazon, it's hit or miss, and a miss won't be helpful.
Still, I think there's something to be said for the point I was trying to make about life and experience being the basics.
We're told to read, read, read, and write, write, write, but nobody says, "Go live and pay close attention."
Obv there are only a few main plots but it's the details that matter.
That said, James Patterson is about to release another novel detailing yet again a missing president, so perhaps copying the same theme is OK!
I've read hundreds of crime drama books and have life experience in the field. If I think of a plot there is a huge% it will similar/same to one I've read.
If I don't read, then am likely to be influenced by that written story?
Appreciate it -
Er -
What the hell is the point?
Computers can’t do that.
But - and it's a big but - dismissing children's books as being lesser than adult books displays poor understanding of children's books.
I work at a school (for 7-11 year olds), and I run an After School Club for those who enjoy writing. Over the course of a term, they construct a story. What they're generating is what they want to read.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DNMK54D1
Basically, like all genres, the trick to getting is right is "Know The Audience". That means listening to the target market.
Great advice thanks 👍
For a start, they will pick up on a break in the internal logic. They will stop if it's boring.
I frequently browse github for other folks methodology to learn how someone else approached solving problems.
Reading someone else's application of the human condition isn't that different.
how did they come to that conclusion?
what conflicts did they overcome?
why did this work?
These are all important questions whose answers get lost when you're writing in a vaccum.
Keep doing what you are doing, always good advice.
Thanks.
1. Parker 'the seventh'
2. Wheel of Doll, Jonathan Ames (great stuff)
3. Hang on St. Christopher, Adrian McKinty's 'Sean Duffy' series