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Thanks Janice, both for the reply and the welcome to the group.  I have been toying with the idea of entering the romance genre.  I read them and get an Edgar Rice Burrough's moment.  He started writing when he read the popular fiction of the day and thought, "I can write as bad as that." lol  What happened is that a couple of reviewers thought that they came in at the middle of a story, and I've always followed the rule that you should always start your book at the middle of the story.  But I thought a prequel would be in order.  There was a core incident, first described in my story, "The Gorgon," that had to be in the story, but as it evolved, a love triangle, actually two intersecting triangles, seemed to be the lead in to the Incident.  That took over the story, but it was forbidden love, so not quite romance by your two rules.  Although well, romance in that sense does happen, but between the MC's; and it does happen between the MC's in the "Rhiannon the Nude" boo, but as one of the events of the story.  Still, several people have noticed that my writing might, if made more PG, appeal to young adults, so I might end up eventually in YA Romance.  Writing is a long strange trip, as between now and 5 years ago I wrote a number of mini-essays in philosophy which have a ready made audience ripe for self-publication.

Now guys, stop fighting over me. Lol

Just now writing about hunky heroes, I haven't done romance in the past, but when I have romance in a story, it's usually gay or lesbian.  But one reader has described Jeb Hardwick as having "statuesque virility."  An help in describing hunks and how they function would be appreciated.

Janet:

Feel free to rant; a wedding is totally stressful, won't even go into what happened at mine.  And not to capitalize on your stress, but my character goes through a wedding disaster of all wedding disasters toward the end of my first book, and now you have given me grist for how to make it even worse.  lol  Sorry, but that's what happens when you rant on a writer's forum, instead of Facebook.  lol

I am mostly in the Stephen King camp. I let the story write itself, or more precisely, the main character. I tried 3rd person, but an outsiders' perspective made the environment scarier than I intended. Now im doing a combination where the 3rd person narrator is the 1st person narrator. I also subscribe to the John Campbell dictate and write for readers in the time and place of the story. This keeps me from over explaining. Anything the real audience wouldn't understand but tube fictional audience would I try to make clear from the audience or from the perspective of a character who might share the rl audience's lack of knowledge.

Azaroth Banana Fruit.  (Yes, I know I'm weird. lol)