Christine Feehan's Blog - Posts Tagged "relationships"
Writing Romance and Proud of it!
There still seems to be this stigma about romance books that I guess I’ll never really understand. There are romances in literary fiction, thrillers even in horror novels, but if the main focus is on the couple there seems to be people out there who feel it’s not as respectable.
Here’s a newsflash. Relationships are NOT easy. Love is NOT easy. Love has so many pitfalls, facets, expression and emotion that thousands of non-fiction books are written each year just to help us understand it, save it, work through problems with it or find it. So, writing about a relationship and having the characters well developed as they start out a relationship takes some thought. Some planning. Some creative thinking. And some hard work.
I realize some people think “happily ever after” is unreal, but if it were so unreal this world would be drab and gray and sad. Call me an optimist, but I believe people find their true love. I believe that people can fight for love and find each other in the end.
I am proud to write romance. I am glad I’m an optimist and that, at least in the worlds I create, love does conquer all.
Here’s a newsflash. Relationships are NOT easy. Love is NOT easy. Love has so many pitfalls, facets, expression and emotion that thousands of non-fiction books are written each year just to help us understand it, save it, work through problems with it or find it. So, writing about a relationship and having the characters well developed as they start out a relationship takes some thought. Some planning. Some creative thinking. And some hard work.
I realize some people think “happily ever after” is unreal, but if it were so unreal this world would be drab and gray and sad. Call me an optimist, but I believe people find their true love. I believe that people can fight for love and find each other in the end.
I am proud to write romance. I am glad I’m an optimist and that, at least in the worlds I create, love does conquer all.
