Paranormal Romance, Anyone?

[dr_pretentious]

Anna Genoese of Tor (aka alg) announces here that she's looking to fill a couple of gaps in her lists for 2007 and 2008. If you write paranormal romance or Jewish-themed fantasy, you should rush straight to that post and see if you have what she's looking for.

So now I have a minor dilemma. I don't think I'll have it for long. Because writersweekend informed me that, in "Atlantis Cranks Need Not Apply," I had accidentally written a short paranormal romance, and because so many of my beta readers told me the story could be expanded into a novel, I am a little bit tempted to try to fill the contemporary paranormal romance gap with either an expansion of the novella or some other Rugosa story. Probably I'd do the latter, if I made the attempt at all. It just seems to me, though, that writing 25,000 words of paranormal romance by accident, when I was aiming for a comedy of epistemology, does not bode well for my being able to pull off a paranormal romance on purpose, given that I'm still romance-illiterate. Hitting the mark for 70,000 words really would call for a deeper acquaintance with that genre than I have.

At least producing 70K by July doesn't seem daunting anymore. Even if I get nothing else out of reading Anna's call for submissions, I got the satisfaction of looking at that number and saying, "Yeah, I could do that."

Well, I'll invite the universe to send me a story to fill the bill, and if one shows up, I'll write it. Meanwhile, there's plenty to keep me busy.

Comments

[newroticgirl.livejournal.com]

yeh, there was no air in the room for a second when I read that post... *sigh* ...maybe my romance genes will kick in if I try to write something. *grin*

ah, hope... stop springing already! heehee!

[reynaud.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you could muddle through. If need be, you could speed read a romance to get a feel for what's expected. But it from what I've heard, they sound a whole lot like greek tragedies or operas. You might have to shift the main character from Jane to Sophie.

As I thought more about, it did seem to me to be a story that either needed to be cut a bit or greatly expanded.

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

I ended up pruning it back by about 10% between the draft I sent you and the one I sent out.

All day, I've been nudging this idea of writing a paranormal romance with the toe of my shoe, and it's not doing anything so far. My brain really wants to stick with the two projects it's got.

I considered writing "Atlantis Cranks" from Sophie's POV, but the minute I tried to do that, I got bored until I went back to Jane. When she gets back from the bottom of the sea next year, she'll be a deep enough character to carry a story on her own.

[writersweekend.livejournal.com]

I think you should try to write the story she really wants, with the whole Hebrew mystical thing.

Come on. You know you want to.

::ducks::

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

For the person who has the background to pull it off, that book is going to be a total blast to write.

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Re: Haunted doll

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Funny, yes. Cool? Not so much.