Nov 20 2008
Must focus on genre. Must focus.
I don’t know what I’d do without a writing group. Oh, yes I do. Imagine yesterday’s post all the time.
I went to my writing group this evening, and now I’m re-energized because they said they got very involved in the chase scene–and those were the pages I wrote on November 1st, the first day of NaNoWriMo.
However, the one thing I’m never going to bring to the group are the “naughty” parts of the story. I don’t think the management of the bookstore where we meet would thank me. But what I’m writing is an erotic romance novella. Take out all the naughty parts, and while there is still a lot of story there, big chunks are missing.
So I went to the publisher’s site where I want to submit the story when I’m finished, and I looked carefully at the kinds of stories that came out recently. It took me about a nanosecond to realize I need to make certain I keep my focus on the romance and the intimate parts of my story (pun intended), and not let myself be too distracted by the other side of the cross-genre story I’m writing.
But the key is this: I just may be on the right track! Cue the lifting of the clouds, the trumpets, and the angels… or in this genre, would that be the naughty devils?
