Ask the Author: S.F. Lazorro
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S.F. Lazorro
I wanted to create a plot that stepped away from the old standard of the ladies man/alpha male/emotionally disfunctional millionaire that is drawn to the heroine. While some of these plots are good, I feel they have become incessantly repetitive.
I am more interested in plots where the characters expierience a combination of difficult and unexpected circumstances that they may not control, and use thier hearts and thier minds to create something amazing.
A situation with an arranged marriage pushes the characters to balance their own personal goals for the arrangement (goals which do not coincide) with doing what is necessary to make arrangement work, and explore new oppourtunities with that other person that neither had thought possible. This makes the beginning of story restrictive but opens the door to endless possibilities.
I am more interested in plots where the characters expierience a combination of difficult and unexpected circumstances that they may not control, and use thier hearts and thier minds to create something amazing.
A situation with an arranged marriage pushes the characters to balance their own personal goals for the arrangement (goals which do not coincide) with doing what is necessary to make arrangement work, and explore new oppourtunities with that other person that neither had thought possible. This makes the beginning of story restrictive but opens the door to endless possibilities.
S.F. Lazorro
A novella called "Loving Leilah". Below is the plot.
As a little girl new to the United States, Leilah Haddad experienced few joys in life apart from the summer trips she took to her native Lebanon to see her Uncle Suleiman. Now she is a high flying official for the US State Department who will jeopardize everything that she has achieved in order to take a position in Crete that will give her the chance to search for clues to his disappearance.
The assignment requires a married couple. So she hastily arranges a marriage to Ryan Wolchack, a shy and intense ex- Federal Agent, not knowing that he has pined for her since they first met.
For Leilah Haddad, the marriage is an arrangement that will allow her to solve the disappearance of the man who was her last link to her homeland. For Ryan Wolchack, it is a chance to seduce, hold, and keep the woman of his dreams.
As a little girl new to the United States, Leilah Haddad experienced few joys in life apart from the summer trips she took to her native Lebanon to see her Uncle Suleiman. Now she is a high flying official for the US State Department who will jeopardize everything that she has achieved in order to take a position in Crete that will give her the chance to search for clues to his disappearance.
The assignment requires a married couple. So she hastily arranges a marriage to Ryan Wolchack, a shy and intense ex- Federal Agent, not knowing that he has pined for her since they first met.
For Leilah Haddad, the marriage is an arrangement that will allow her to solve the disappearance of the man who was her last link to her homeland. For Ryan Wolchack, it is a chance to seduce, hold, and keep the woman of his dreams.
S.F. Lazorro
Reading the work of others.
Reading the work of others.
S.F. Lazorro
I can create any idea I want, no matter how impossible or ridiculous.
S.F. Lazorro
If you really feel you can't write anything then don't try. Find something else to do get the creative juices flowing and come back to it. If you want to write but don't exactly know what to do, just start, even if it's crap. The message will unfold organically as you write and you will eventually come up with what you want to say.
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