Post by account_disabled on Jan 2, 2024 4:51:50 GMT
In the post " Basic elements of the novel " Lisa talked about what emerged in the writing course she attended. It therefore turned out that every novel that you sell must have 3 plots, one of which is a love story . And let's not talk about the classic romance. If we want our novels to sell, then we need to include a love story. Does this sound good to you? Not to me. The distinction was between literary novel and commercial novel . In the second case we have to follow certain rules, so we have to invent some love story, which creates curiosity and also a certain tension. I then decided to check the novels read in the last two years to see how many had a clear love story within.
Out of 71 novels only 17 had a love story, therefore only 24%. But not all of these love stories created tension, in fact sometimes they were just brief hints or parentheses. Who is interested in love stories? I'm pretty sure that most women like a book with a love story. Lisa on “Basic elements of the novel”. I'm convinced of it too. But to Special Data most men? I do not believe. Men and women have different tastes, including literary ones. Some match, obviously, but generally men and women are different in every way and it couldn't be otherwise. I'm not interested in pleasing "the majority of women", I'm interested in an audience made up of readers, men and women. Who is interested in love stories? To me, put bluntly, they bore. I can tolerate them in novels if they are veiled and unpredictable, as happened to me in Extinction by James Rollins where the usual handsome guy ends up with the usual hot girl. I would say that we can do without these fried and refried banalities.
But Extinction is a commercial novel, even if it has an interesting scientific appendix. I don't demonize commercial literature, I read a lot of it too. Leviathan: The Awakening is also a commercial science fiction novel, but it has no love stories. Why does a love story sell more? I searched a lot online, but I didn't find it written anywhere that a novel must have a love story inside to sell more. I searched in English and with various search terms. Nothing. It is therefore a personal opinion of that author, Kathryn Para. We all know by now that in a novel it is not only the plot that is important but also the subplots , so it is up to the author, also based on the story and its characters, to insert a love story. And that's fine. I wanted to take a look at the planned novels to see if I had in mind to include love stories and immediately take action. No, jokes aside, here's the situation: PU: there is one, I confess. But it goes almost unnoticed K: no love story IC: none DBR: none M: none B: yet to be defined, there could be SeR: none There is one in my story being written for self-publishing. So I have no best sellers on the horizon. I'll get over it.
Out of 71 novels only 17 had a love story, therefore only 24%. But not all of these love stories created tension, in fact sometimes they were just brief hints or parentheses. Who is interested in love stories? I'm pretty sure that most women like a book with a love story. Lisa on “Basic elements of the novel”. I'm convinced of it too. But to Special Data most men? I do not believe. Men and women have different tastes, including literary ones. Some match, obviously, but generally men and women are different in every way and it couldn't be otherwise. I'm not interested in pleasing "the majority of women", I'm interested in an audience made up of readers, men and women. Who is interested in love stories? To me, put bluntly, they bore. I can tolerate them in novels if they are veiled and unpredictable, as happened to me in Extinction by James Rollins where the usual handsome guy ends up with the usual hot girl. I would say that we can do without these fried and refried banalities.
But Extinction is a commercial novel, even if it has an interesting scientific appendix. I don't demonize commercial literature, I read a lot of it too. Leviathan: The Awakening is also a commercial science fiction novel, but it has no love stories. Why does a love story sell more? I searched a lot online, but I didn't find it written anywhere that a novel must have a love story inside to sell more. I searched in English and with various search terms. Nothing. It is therefore a personal opinion of that author, Kathryn Para. We all know by now that in a novel it is not only the plot that is important but also the subplots , so it is up to the author, also based on the story and its characters, to insert a love story. And that's fine. I wanted to take a look at the planned novels to see if I had in mind to include love stories and immediately take action. No, jokes aside, here's the situation: PU: there is one, I confess. But it goes almost unnoticed K: no love story IC: none DBR: none M: none B: yet to be defined, there could be SeR: none There is one in my story being written for self-publishing. So I have no best sellers on the horizon. I'll get over it.