Comments on: Chasing Cowboys ... what I learned writing about cowboys and rodeo queens http://www.hawaiireaders.com/blog/2009/10/16/chasing-cowboys-what-i-learned-writing-about-cowboys-and-rodeo-queens/ The Hawaii Readers site Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:48:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Stringer Belle http://www.hawaiireaders.com/blog/2009/10/16/chasing-cowboys-what-i-learned-writing-about-cowboys-and-rodeo-queens/comment-page-1/#comment-448 Stringer Belle Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:24:06 +0000 http://www.hawaiireaders.com/?p=4946#comment-448 Word. Don't know much 'bout rodeo queens and cowboys...ain't from my neck of the woods...but I feel where you be comin' from. Romance in fiction got all sorts of drama and conflict that can't be expected, but that's what make the actual pay-off at the end more sweet, know what I'm sayin'? You gotta introduce all that like it is. Tell it like it be in the real world, cause it play out in real life the same way all too often. Your fiction gotta reflect what be goin' on out there, outside yo' window, cause if it ain't, your stories ain't nothin' more than a cheap Lifetime production or Harlequin romance novel, you dig? Bottom line be write it like you feel. Get yo' craft tight, then work with nuances from there. Ain't nobody gonna want to read no happy-go-lucky, all sunshine BS anyway. Word. Don't know much 'bout rodeo queens and cowboys...ain't from my neck of the woods...but I feel where you be comin' from. Romance in fiction got all sorts of drama and conflict that can't be expected, but that's what make the actual pay-off at the end more sweet, know what I'm sayin'? You gotta introduce all that like it is. Tell it like it be in the real world, cause it play out in real life the same way all too often. Your fiction gotta reflect what be goin' on out there, outside yo' window, cause if it ain't, your stories ain't nothin' more than a cheap Lifetime production or Harlequin romance novel, you dig?

Bottom line be write it like you feel. Get yo' craft tight, then work with nuances from there. Ain't nobody gonna want to read no happy-go-lucky, all sunshine BS anyway.

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