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Lissie W replied to the topic Intriguing Opening Lines (Mystery/Thriller/Suspense) in the forum Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Writers 4 years, 10 months ago
Lol.
Mine usually begin like a normal story. Lucy (my MC) gets home and everything is normal.
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Brian Stansell started the topic Intriguing Opening Lines (Mystery/Thriller/Suspense) in the forum Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Writers 4 years, 10 months ago
I am curious, for all my fellow Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Writers out there, how do you begin your stories of this type? Are you willing to share some of your personal examples of your opening lines from a WIP that you use to grab a reader’s attention?
Here are a few that I have used in some stories:
1. Lost, alone, cold, wet, tired and no one…[Read more]
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Lissie W joined the group Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Writers 4 years, 10 months ago
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MelancholicWriter replied to the topic Thoughts On My REAL Romance in the forum Romance Writers 4 years, 11 months ago
Great! Just send an email to this address tashavk06@gmail.com and I’ll ad you to the doc!
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Erynne replied to the topic Thoughts On My REAL Romance in the forum Romance Writers 4 years, 11 months ago
Sure, I’d love to!
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MelancholicWriter replied to the topic Thoughts On My REAL Romance in the forum Romance Writers 4 years, 11 months ago
@erynne
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Brian Stansell joined the group Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Writers 4 years, 11 months ago
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Erynne replied to the topic Thoughts On My REAL Romance in the forum Romance Writers 5 years ago
That’s going to turn out very cool! Totally sounds like something I would read
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MelancholicWriter replied to the topic Thoughts On My REAL Romance in the forum Romance Writers 5 years ago
Thank you for the suggestions!
yes there is a good reason for them to flee to the uncle. So at the ball Mia wanders off and sees her stepmother and the earl together. She hears them talking about an evil plot (haven’t totally figured that out yet) Mia goes and tells Gabriel, but him, the loyal son that he is, doesn’t believe her right…[Read more]
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Erynne replied to the topic Thoughts On My REAL Romance in the forum Romance Writers 5 years ago
Hope you don’t mind me popping in!
I really like everything about it! I do agree with Gracie though. If you made that change it would make it really neat! I do have a couple questions about it though. Is there a reason that Mia and Gabriel have to flee to the good uncle? And this is just pure curiosity, does Mia have something…[Read more]
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MelancholicWriter replied to the topic Thoughts On My REAL Romance in the forum Romance Writers 5 years ago
Ya the illegitimate is a way I’m changing it up and that is a reason the mother is so spiteful…but I could have it that her identity is just hidden. Actually I really like that! If you want to read it, I could add you to the doc and you could be an Alpha reader as I write it…if you would like that just shoot an email to this address…[Read more]
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Arindown (Gracie) replied to the topic Thoughts On My REAL Romance in the forum Romance Writers 5 years ago
Sounds cool to me. I love fairy-tale retellings, so I might be a little biased.😄
I’m wondering what the point of her being an illegitimate daughter is. Is it going to be important later in the story? Also…just a random idea…what if she wasn’t actually illegitimate, but her father was hiding her true identity?
Can’t wait…[Read more]
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MelancholicWriter started the topic Thoughts On My REAL Romance in the forum Romance Writers 5 years ago
Ok, so there is a bit of a story behind this romance before I tell my plot. So a year or two ago I decided that I wanted to try my hand at writing a Cinderella retelling. The only problem was that I don’t really like the fairy fairytale with all the magic. So I decided I was going to write it in medieval England, Germany, France, or Italy. I pu…[Read more]
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MelancholicWriter replied to the topic What romances would you recommend? in the forum Romance Writers 5 years ago
I do have to agree with where @legomaiego is going. And even though I gave some books with romance that weren’t too romantic, they aren’t really romances. If you are going to read a romance you will most likely have to deal with kissing, romance, etc. It’s just kinda part of the romance part of romance…
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J. S. Clingman replied to the topic What romances would you recommend? in the forum Romance Writers 5 years ago
@legomaiego I wasn’t really trying to redefine “clean romance”. I was just looking for a romance that wasn’t too romantic, if that makes any sense. I’m a newcomer to the romance genre—and at least at the time of writing the initial post in this thread—I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I wanted “romance lite” (shall we say) without excessive mus…[Read more]
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MelancholicWriter replied to the topic My WIP Romance in the forum Romance Writers 5 years ago
Thanks! That really helps, though I chose not to have him rape her…I just wasn’t sure how that would work out but she is going to break up with him…I’ll add a part of the story to show the reason why…
Finally Steve broke the silence. “Selina, I love you a lot.”
She shifted uncomfortably, not sure what to think about this dec…[Read more]
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Arlet replied to the topic My WIP Romance in the forum Romance Writers 5 years ago
I think @zee and @arindown made good points here. I read this thread a long time ago, and been trying to figure out how to help. Okay, here I go~
- I don’t know what country you’re from or your age, but do you happen to be a minor when it comes to crimes of a sexual locus (i.e., rape, assault, etc.)? If so, then in my opinion, it may be…
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Arlet replied to the topic What romances would you recommend? in the forum Romance Writers 5 years ago
Okay, I’m really confused by some things in this thread (and sub-forum in general). ^^;; I’m past adolescence and writing romance, so I guess part of my confusion is coming from this angle.
What on earth do you all mean by “weird stuff” and “kissing,” or am I clueless? By “kissing,” are you talking graphic description of one of the many ways a…[Read more]
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MelancholicWriter replied to the topic What romances would you recommend? in the forum Romance Writers 5 years ago
Glad to help!
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