The Insecure Writer’s Support Group Blog Post for June

[image error]Welcome to the June  IWSG Blog Day. The Insecure Writer’s Support Group  is a “database resource site and support group for writers and authors. Featuring weekly guests and tips, a monthly blogfest gathering, a Facebook group, a book club, and thousands of links – all to benefit writers! #IWSG”

Each month, there is a blog day with a optional question to answer. I try to make it each month, but sometimes life gets in the way. You know how that is, but I’m here this month.

Question: Of all the genres you read and write, which is your favorite to write in and why?

The answer hands down is suspense. It’s an integral part of everything I write, regardless of the genre. When I read, I like to be challenged to think and imagine what’s going to happen next. Even in a contemporary romance, there needs to be something that makes me want to turn the page and sometimes conflict between the characters alone isn’t enough for me.

By adding an element of suspense to all of my stories, the potential for death and danger outside of the romance itself, I can work in a deeper story line, adding a dimension to the characters I might not otherwise find. It also gives me the option of adding more main characters to the mix. For example, in my novel, Fire Angel, I have three characters with their own POV–the hero, the heroine, and the villain. Getting inside his head has allowed me to delve deeper into his emotional state and motivation, something I wouldn’t be able to do otherwise.

In the historical romance suspense I’m currently working on, adding suspense has allowed me to dive deeper into the history of the time and the real dangers as well as the fictional ones my characters face. At the moment, I am taking two contemporary romance short stories and merging them together into a novel. In doing so, I went behind the original plot of the main story and added an element of suspense to the mix, a stalker responsible for the accident that destroyed my heroine’s dreams. By adding that element of the unknown, I have made her overreaction to seemingly innocent behaviors by the hero more believable and understandable.

I love suspense and intrigue, the more thrilling, the better. How about you?

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