Monday, May 30, 2011

Characters faced with emotional Hell!


I strive for emotional stress within my romantic novels. I put my characters through hell. I have had one or two almost suicidal, but if emotional impact is your want from a romance then pushing one's characters to the limits of enduring true pain of love is a must. Plus, grief of misunderstandings is a great way to stretch reader participation in the sympathy stakes! 

I'm cruel, I know, but I love it!    
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  1. Anne GallagherMay 30, 2011 at 6:17 AM

    I've put my characters on such roller coasters they're puking all the way to the end of the book. Gotta love that angst.

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  2. Francine HowarthMay 30, 2011 at 6:37 AM

    Hi Anne,

    Hee hee, I know the pain you put your characters through. Poor Violet! ;)

    best
    F

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  3. Paula MartinMay 30, 2011 at 6:50 AM

    The more intense the emotional stress, the more satisfying the HEA ending is, when the characters finally get there. So yes, let's put 'em through sheer hell, so that they can emerge from it stronger and wiser, and thus deserve their HEA.

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  4. JENNIFER WILCKMay 30, 2011 at 2:34 PM

    No one wants to read a story where everything is "fine" anyway!

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  5. Denise Covey May 30, 2011 at 4:33 PM

    Often editors that what writers don't have enough of in their mss is emotion. Good on you. Give 'em hell!

    Denise<3

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  6. Francine HowarthMay 31, 2011 at 12:39 AM

    Hi girls,

    Yep, a case of stack up the pain!

    Thanks for stopping by OZ . . .

    best
    F

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