Sawdust and Milkshakes
Sep. 29th, 2024 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deemoyzaStill on my quest to understand romance writing in the hopes of finding the Warm Fuzzies I so desperately seek.
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(And hey, this post title could be its own little romance book, too! A carpenter and a malt shop owner meet and butt heads and fall in love and, and... yeah, I can romanticate a little, I just don't trust myself to actually make it work as a story. 😅)
Anyhoo, a bit of internet browsing suggested that the type of stories I'm searching for are commonly called "cozy romance." So, I tried a few, and my brain didn't melt. Actually, I enjoyed myself, and that was a relief. I'm not broken! I was just looking in the wrong places!
I'm still not a full convert to romance books, but knowing there's an inroad makes the journey a whole lot easier.
I'm also looking forward to reading The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst, but I am currently languishing in the depths of my library's hold queue. 😫
Anyway, while not all of my qualms about the romance genre have been quelled, I think I may have found a niche I don't mind exploring, and one I don't feel intimidated to try my hand at writing in. Maybe I was looking for love in all the wrong places (and that might even apply to my real life, too, but I don't wanna go there right now), and just too damn proud to admit I was wrong. I'm bull-headed; it happens.
Now, off to try to write something. I've got an exchange assignment due in a few weeks, and damn if I let myself default again! ::determined::
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(And hey, this post title could be its own little romance book, too! A carpenter and a malt shop owner meet and butt heads and fall in love and, and... yeah, I can romanticate a little, I just don't trust myself to actually make it work as a story. 😅)
Anyhoo, a bit of internet browsing suggested that the type of stories I'm searching for are commonly called "cozy romance." So, I tried a few, and my brain didn't melt. Actually, I enjoyed myself, and that was a relief. I'm not broken! I was just looking in the wrong places!
I'm still not a full convert to romance books, but knowing there's an inroad makes the journey a whole lot easier.
I'm also looking forward to reading The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst, but I am currently languishing in the depths of my library's hold queue. 😫
Anyway, while not all of my qualms about the romance genre have been quelled, I think I may have found a niche I don't mind exploring, and one I don't feel intimidated to try my hand at writing in. Maybe I was looking for love in all the wrong places (and that might even apply to my real life, too, but I don't wanna go there right now), and just too damn proud to admit I was wrong. I'm bull-headed; it happens.
Now, off to try to write something. I've got an exchange assignment due in a few weeks, and damn if I let myself default again! ::determined::
