My
tagline, “Embracing my crazy…one character at a time,” essentially sums up how
I approach writing and the process of writing.
I know there are plenty of manuals on writing and writing style that
provide you with hard, fast, and plentiful rules about what you can never do as
a writer, about what elements have to be present in your writing in order for
it to fit into a genre or subgenre.
Honestly, there are even rules and guides about what a hero/heroine
must/mustn’t do in order for your story to be a “real romance.”
In
my opinion, that’s the largest load of garbage that’s ever been spoon-fed to
authors. Yes, there are some things that
should remain consistent in writing.
Formatting, grammar, etc. are elements that are definitely needed to
help make sense of the words we string together. However, even those truths which we hold
steadfast can sometimes be bent in order to further our creativity. This is exactly where embracing your crazy
comes in. Doing what feels intuitive
versus doing what is considered to be the correct method of doing something can
ultimately set your muse free and yield you a new and refreshing piece of
writing.
For
instance, there is this unspoken rule that heroines need to be rescued. After all, the entire purpose of a romance is
to create a fictional situation where the heroine is incomplete until her hero
comes on the scene to point out her flaws and fix them for her (just in case
you didn’t know, that was sarcasm). As
silly as that notion sounds many romance novels do depict that exact
theme. Some people may like that kind of
thing. As for me, I’m a chick from
Brooklyn who was raised to save her own day, so I write women that reflect a
more modernized ideal of femininity. My
heroines are smart, able, and powerful.
Oftentimes they’re just as flawed and surly as my heroes are, and they
always give as much hell as they get from their male counterparts. My heroines make things happen and most
importantly, they offer partnership to their heroes. They fight and love equally in the boardroom
and the bedroom.
That’s
just one of the ways I’ve found to bend if not break the rules. Come back next month to see what other antics
I go through just to embrace my particular brand of crazy.♥
2015 Georgia Romance Writers
Maggie Award Finalist in Erotic Romance, 2015 Swirl Awards Finalist in Romantic
Suspense, bestselling erotic romance author, LaQuette, is a native of Brooklyn,
New York. She spends her time catering
to her three distinct personalities: Wife, Mother, and Educator. LaQuette loves hearing from readers
and discussing the crazy characters that are running around in her head causing
so much trouble. Contact her on Facebook, Twitter, @LaQuetteLikes, her website,
www.NovelsbyLaQuette.com,
Amazon, her Facebook group, LaQuette's Lounge,
and
via email at NovelsbyLaQuette@gmail.com.
Love your tagline. Good post.
ReplyDeleteThank you! So glad you enjoyed it.
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