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Writing Tip: Should you try to write in a genre style?

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What genre do you write in? When you sit down to start your novel, what is it going to be able as far as what area of the book store or category on Amazon will it show up?

genresI could make this a long article, but I won’t. An author friend of mine and I were talking about a Romance I wrote, or two actually and that I wrote them having never read a Romance. The stories were really Love novels to me, but as for genre they would likely be called Romance.

I set out to write a Romance as a challenge to do something outside of my comfort zone and have discovered I love the basic ideas of the genre, but I had no idea what elements went into a Romance. I simply wrote the novels.

You see what you do is sit down and write your story. Pour everything into it, and then when you finish . . . find out what your genre is. The book will fall into some genre. Just tell your story from your heart. You can tell a science fiction robot story from the heart because you are putting all you have into a piece of your work. If you’re not doing that then I’m not sure why you are writing. I can’t write a novel, a poem, or short story without putting feeling it. I can’t even write this tip article without feeling emotions. If I don’t feel the pain of a character or have to walk away at times because of a decision I had to make in the book, then I shouldn’t be writing that story. (No characters were harmed in the creation of this article.)

Well those are my opinions. My opinions don’t mean there aren’t other ways to do it. Obviously people are doing it other ways and beings successful.

But for me and my tip today;

Don’t worry about your genre, just tell your story.

Get that genre thing out of your mind. It holds you back and is like some type of choke collar that keeps you from being creative because you think that something doesn’t fit right. No two books are alike, and no book is perfectly situated in one genre. A science fiction book, as an example has love, adventure, thriller and more in it, but it’s called science fiction because of the setting. So get out of the way of your words and write.

 

Much Respect

Ronovan

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The Writing Tip

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I haven’t written any writing tips in a while. I think the last I did where all in a series about developing your characters. What one does as a writer is look at what work of theirs people read and then either write more of the same or work to make the less read stuff better because they are annoyed at a perceived weakness.

I just haven’t had the time to rework my annoyances.

I do have a writing tip today that is simple. It’s one we’ve all seen and take for granted that perhaps we do, but we really don’t.Writing Tips

Write.

Keep writing.

Write all the time.

Write something of everything.

 

We writers become snobs. We think as we classify ourselves as those who write stories, novels, or whatever . . . poetry, we believe we are above the advice to write. I have written for over 20 years in story form. I have written numerous books that  are now yellowed paper manuscripts in stacks and taking up space on computers in several homes.

I write, I send, I receive, and I retry.

For years I kept rewriting the same thing, over and over and over again. I have four versions of one book on the computer I typing on now. Each a little different, a little different in a level of mediocrity.

Why?

Because I do not write, or rather I did not.

I have discovered over the past year that I can write. I can write humor articles, poetry, parody, interviews, and of all things . . . romance novels. In the past year alone I have written at least three novels. Two of them romances.

I was never a romance writer, or so all of my writing tells me. Some of you will understand what I mean by that. However as I stepped out of my comfort zone and challenged myself to write things I had never written before, as I have written over 600 blog articles in 5 months time, I have been writing and discovering that . . . I . . . can . . . write, because I am writing.

You may be reading this and are thinking you are different than I am. You are correct. I am wearing a black t-shirt sitting in a particular house where you are not located. There the difference ends.

Write. Do not be a snob or you will find yourself rewriting the same books for 20 years.

Write blogs, write poetry, short stories, fairy tales, fantasy, science fiction, YA, romance, mysteries, and even spy thrillers. Do it all. The more you do, the more you find your voice. And that, my friends, is why you keep writing . . . to find that voice . . . your voice. When you can write something and not sign it and people say “That’s my friend’s work.” then you are ready.

Much Respect

Ronovan

 

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The Sensitive Blogger

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The Sensitive Blogger

by: Ronovan

 Black Sight

 

You have to be tough to make it as a blogger!

 

I’m not tough. In fact I’m the exact opposite. I’m what you might call The Sensitive Blogger. If you’ve read my work and had interactions with me you may have put together a picture of what I am. I wear my mind and heart on my sleeve. They are both out there for the world to see and stomp on.

 

And sometimes people trip over one or the other without knowing it.

 

When the intentional hurt happens I can deal with that, most Bloggers can. We know there will be people who disagree with us or don’t like our work or are just intentionally trying to pick a fight. They want to be THAT commenter.

 

I can handle that. It’s those blindside ones that make me almost give up. When that happens I turn to typing. I write. Why not turn that hurt into something I can use on my Blog?

 

You get judged at times by history, a history that is not your own. I wrote an article called ‘I’m not THAT man’ recently and I find that phrase works in many areas of life. Before I go on, don’t get me wrong. Something said today was not said in a rude or impolite manner but it caught me off guard and well it’s going to stay with me for a long time and I will question my judgment for a long time.

 

I still feel sick. You know that sick disappointed feeling that you get when you are hurt. My initial reaction was “I give up, delete blog.” Since my accident thoughts turn into actions quickly. I stopped myself this time. I just didn’t want to be known as someone who a person even thought remotely might have been doing bad practice.

 

No, I wasn’t being bad or anything. It was just said that it could be seen as such. So don’t think anything like that. I didn’t post bad stuff, or comment badly to someone. It was just a moment that hit me.

 

It made me realize my judgment isn’t what it should be about things.

 

You probably clicked this looking for tips about blogging. I don’t know if you got anything out of this. But sometimes I just need to write and post something that is just a ‘me’ thing. I don’t know that I’ve ever actually done that until now in a non creative format, but isn’t that what having your own blog is about?

 

Much Respect

Ronovan

 

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