Craft Chat Top Ten Reasons To Reject

[Carol Rose]

Okay, this is written by an editor who works for a publisher that mainly takes on erotic romances, so it's written to apply to erotic romances, but most of this applies to any genre fiction. Obviously you'd disregard the parts that don't apply specifically to the genre you're writing. But even if those sections don't specifically apply, you might still find those sections useful for individual scenes. Hope that makes sense, and hope you find this helpful.

http://www.girlyengine.com/#!Top-10-Reasons-to-Reject-an-ERom/c1q8z/56b29e0f0cf2dc1600e1de61

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Interesting read actually. More so because nothing jumped out and bit me, so I let out a sigh and started breathing again; thanks!

 

[KG Christopher]

Very informative. This line stuck out.

Treating rape with flippancy is an especially glaring mistake in an e-rom, where the focus should be on the romance.

Nothing romantic about rape.

 

[Carol Rose]

Very informative. This line stuck out.

Treating rape with flippancy is an especially glaring mistake in an e-rom, where the focus should be on the romance.

Nothing romantic about rape.

I completely agree. There is a disturbing trend lately, leaning toward every blasted heroine having survived a rape, but the author treats the act and the aftermath with the same importance as if the heroine had merely fallen and skinned her knee I've written rape survivors as heroines, and they're pretty damn messed up from it as any woman would be. I'm fine with authors who want to write their heroines as rape survivors, but give that trauma the respect it deserves. Those woman are going to need someone very special and understanding in their lives if they are ever going to be able to have an intimate relationship with a man after going through something like that.

 

[Jason Byrne]

I completely agree. There is a disturbing trend lately, leaning toward every blasted heroine having survived a rape, but the author treats the act and the aftermath with the same importance as if the heroine had merely fallen and skinned her knee I've written rape survivors as heroines, and they're pretty damn messed up from it as any woman would be. I'm fine with authors who want to write their heroines as rape survivors, but give that trauma the respect it deserves. Those woman are going to need someone very special and understanding in their lives if they are ever going to be able to have an intimate relationship with a man after going through something like that.

I've discovered in the past that a few of my friends were rape survivors, and it it explained a lot because it did do things to them. I am astonished that anyone would be flippant about it; obviously they never met anyone that lived through it, or didn't know that they did.

 

[Carol Rose]

I've discovered in the past that a few of my friends were rape survivors, and it it explained a lot because it did do things to them. I am astonished that anyone would be flippant about it; obviously they never met anyone that lived through it, or didn't know that they did.

Exactly. They just sit down and spew crap from their keyboard without having the first clue.

 

[J. Rook]

Okay, this is written by an editor who works for a publisher that mainly takes on erotic romances, so it's written to apply to erotic romances, but most of this applies to any genre fiction. Obviously you'd disregard the parts that don't apply specifically to the genre you're writing. But even if those sections don't specifically apply, you might still find those sections useful for individual scenes. Hope that makes sense, and hope you find this helpful.

http://www.girlyengine.com/#!Top-10-Reasons-to-Reject-an-ERom/c1q8z/56b29e0f0cf2dc1600e1de61

Thank you for the post. I find it interesting because it specifies categories that I became aware of as I wrote the one erotic romance in my output. I particularly like the dot point detail.

 

[Carol Rose]

Thank you for the post. I find it interesting because it specifies categories that I became aware of as I wrote the one erotic romance in my output. I particularly like the dot point detail.

She did a great job outlining everything, didn't she? I printed it out to keep at my writing desk!

 

[AgentPete]

Hello @Carol Rose,

We are changing the status of this ticket to closed as we have not heard back from you in 7 days.