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hawnks · 7 months ago

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Everyone thinks they can write a romance novel. Scratch that. They think they can write a romance novel better than all the other romance novels. Because of course they can. Romance is trite. It’s trashy. It’s simple.

Everyone thinks they can write a romance novel until they actually sit down to write one.

Because the people who disparage the genre are too embarrassed to engage deeply with the ideas that build the work, to make any meaningful commentary on anything, to add to any on-going conversations. They’re hovering above it all, too precious to land. Instead of writing a romance novel, they’re writing a novel that insists they’re beyond all of this, that says romance is beneath them, it’s not worthy of them.

So they end up with a parody of what they think romance is. I.e. they have written a bad romance novel.

I think it’s true that anyone can write romance. Anyone can do any of the cringey, heart-on-your-sleeve art. In fact, the hardest part is beginning.

Step one: You have to love the thing you’re making.

#ov yilo isi?#squawk tag #does this make sense?#I’m so sick of everyone thinking they’re too good for romance #I think also (and this is what gets me abt the New Romance Authors on Tiktok) you have to /know/ the genre before you can really add to it #in a way that matters. if you havent read widely how do you even know the place your work is fufilling in the community?#also. you cannot simultaneously disparage and profit off a community. it doesn’t work like that.#if you hate romance on principle. go write a fucking nonfiction book abt fishing idk #but stay out of my house #😤

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