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Scenario 1: Yes, it's plausible, by why only have 'one' steamy romance? How and why is the international guy to meet the local sheriff?
Scenario 2: Yes this works too, but that's a lot of kids to be moving around with. Are they moving in a camper pretending to be highly religious? That could make it more interesting and delay any physically intimate moments (when the campers rocking don't come knocking).

There is no cure, BUT I've found that paying into Kindle Unlimited (KU) I can read without guilt of having paid for horrible books. The way Amazon set up the payment to the authors is percentage based (they only get paid for the pages read). I love this! Hopefully it will force writers to create quality work. Since I bought into KU, I've started hundreds of books that I've turned back in after only reading the first chapter (some made it to chapter 3 before I was disgruntled). I've also found some fabulous authors and read all their books. Since joining KU, I'm hooked and wont read any books that don't participate. The funny thing is that I can tolerate grammar issues easier than I can idiocy. It really ticks me off when the hero/heroine is too stupid to live - makes me want to kill them off. There is a huge self published listing of authors whoes work is not worth reading past the first chapter and it gives self published authors a bad rap.

This is what great stories are made of. The hard part is ensuring that what is in your head actually makes it to the paper, otherwise, the moment will be wasted on the reader. Writing what you actually think and reading what you actually wrote, not what you think you wrote (the mind loves to play tricks on us all). That's one of the great things about TNBW is that you get the reader effect.

Yes, this is an annual contest. There are a good number of RWA (Romance Writers of America) chapters that have contest annually that use publishers and agents as the final judges, too. I organized one for my local chapter this year and the editors requested submits from the top two in each category. Submitting through contest is a great way to gauge response to your story without the pressure of directly submitting to an editor or agent. Plus, usually only the first few chapters are sent which gives you time to work on the remainder of the book while you wait.

Consider: Windsor suppressed the urge to smile at having ruffled Lupus feathers... or some other such statement...

Bahahaha! I'm laughing my head off! Thanks for the entertainment.

Janet Taylor-Perry, please share more of the disturbing erotica. We could all use the learning lesson.

OMG, Janet! I can't believe you stumbled on that show! Talk about a train wreck that could be the basis for many a dark romance.

Hi Janet!
Glad the move went well. I know that it had to be stressful and I'm glad that you're still on TNBW. I've taken a hiatus as well and have really missed having time to read, review, and participate in groups. I started reading published stories and it's become an obsession that I need to break. I like to consider it research because less than half of what I've read was of a print quality - more authors need to join this site and learn grammar, proofing, etc... Glad to hear others are having lags in their writing too.
Philisha

Having the most recent comments be where the link to the thread takes us would be greatly appreciated. Especially for some of those topics that go on for multiple pages. If the whole thread could be collapsed by commenter that would help as well, similar to how how Google groups or Yahoo groups can collapse a thread to show each individual as a line line, allowing the individual to collapse or expand.

I always put parts of me and my experience into my stories. It might be subtle attitude, thoughts, or things that have happened. Or maybe someone's pissed me off and they're the next person in the story I kill. Writing can be therapeutic because the story builds within my mind and until I put it on page, I cant enjoy others company. When I struggle emotionally or physically, I put it on paper as though its a story because it helps me solve it. Whether or not it makes it into one of my manuscripts is yet to be seen.

The father character in Earthly Force is a picture of my dad, he is the character. By using him as the example, I could build his voice, appearance, mannerisms, even down to what he drives. To create the dialogue between the brothers in EF, I observed how my husband and his friends poke at each other all the time. Though still fictional on all levels, because paranormal can't be real, the story pulls in real personalities and hopefully grabs the reader. I love to see real things/occurrences in life and ask 'What if?' Some of the best science fiction/paranormal makes me question could it be real? Look at Stephen King's writing: Pet Cemetery was enough of a perverted truth to make one wonder if it could be real; Greenmile; The Shining; and on and on. All of those made me wonder. Though my writing is in no comparison to Kings, I use his style as inspiration for my writing.