Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Sometimes I write....
Sometimes I write stories about characters who have big problems. Real problems that take an entire 300 page book to resolve. Not because they're whiny or insecure or because they can't take charge of themselves, but because real problems take time to deal with. As my editor says, she likes books where big issues are dealt with and eventually resolved. Bless her heart. In partcular, I find that the characters in some of my books have problems with body image. Some are "too big" some "too thin". Probably this comes from my own experiences with eating disorders. And having been through anorexia myself, I'm 100% certain that just because a heroine does not "get over it" by page 100 doesn't mean she's too stupid to live.
Sometimes I write stories that have lots of sex. In lots of places.
Sometimes I write stories with characters that have big problems and they also happen to like having all that sex.
Sometimes I write stories that are funny, where the characters don't have huge problems. They probably have a bunch of sex, tho.
Sometimes I write really deliciously filthy stories where I go back and read them and I'm like, "Oh my, I was having quite the naughty month, wasn't I?"
Sometimes I write really sweet stories. And sometimes they're as fun to write as the naughty ones.
Sometimes I try something new, like a murder mystery or women's fiction or YA/teen books, and I hope for the best and throw my heart into it.
Sometimes people love my books. Sometimes they don't. But I'm going to write anyway. And that's good to know.
;-) Bella Andre
TAKE ME: November 2005
www.BellaAndre.com
Sometimes I write stories that have lots of sex. In lots of places.
Sometimes I write stories with characters that have big problems and they also happen to like having all that sex.
Sometimes I write stories that are funny, where the characters don't have huge problems. They probably have a bunch of sex, tho.
Sometimes I write really deliciously filthy stories where I go back and read them and I'm like, "Oh my, I was having quite the naughty month, wasn't I?"
Sometimes I write really sweet stories. And sometimes they're as fun to write as the naughty ones.
Sometimes I try something new, like a murder mystery or women's fiction or YA/teen books, and I hope for the best and throw my heart into it.
Sometimes people love my books. Sometimes they don't. But I'm going to write anyway. And that's good to know.
;-) Bella Andre
TAKE ME: November 2005
www.BellaAndre.com
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Selfishly, I'm glad you'll always write, because I love your books, always have. As far as issues that don't resolve by page 300, or even by the end... I'm guilty of writing those characters myself. I'm constantly struggling with the side of me that says "but it's a romance, so it can be somewhat unrealistic," and the practical part of me that says, "but people don't just get over it, and if they're working at it by the end of the book," or, "but unless she's really really skinny, sex standing up just doesn't work," or, "ew, you can't have sex in Lake Lagunita! It's totally gross and algae laden!"
So FWIW, I'm a fan and writer who can't always get her practical brain to shut off. Guess we know why I don't write paranormals :)
So FWIW, I'm a fan and writer who can't always get her practical brain to shut off. Guess we know why I don't write paranormals :)
I love that idea of issues that don't resolve even by the end. Not in some sort of literary sense, but just that people are who they are, at their core, and while love helps make things better, it doesn't neccessarily "fix" every problem. Okay, enough blah, blah, blah, I need to get back to work on my masturbation sex scene in the wip due in two weeks.
;-) bella
;-) bella
Sometimes, I love writing to extract the voices from my head. Muahhhh. No, I'm not crazy, really I'm not.
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