In the afterglow the morning after amazing sex (yes, it was
that good), lying tangled together with my love, I explained how romance novels work, and I concluded with: "We'd make a crappy romance novel."
His half-asleep response? "I think we make a damn good sex blog."
Oh, yeah.
Amen!
ReplyDelete(And no, this is exactly what we are looking for in romance novels - an ever after that continues on and on and on. I am glad others know it too. )
I was referring to the part in romance novels where the two stubborn people have some thing that drives them apart mentally, and then they only get back together once they realize they miss each other.
DeleteWe were driven apart repeatedly physically, but never by choice and never because of stubbornness.
Maybe that's a story I need to write.
I prefer the sex blog!!!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy,
Joey
Oh, me too!
DeleteRomance novel, sex blog, it's all good :)
ReplyDeleteWhatever gets the happy meter humming, I say! :)
DeleteI don't like romance novels. I don't like how predictable they are. And I don't like that the characters are written off into the sunset at the end. If I like characters, I want to see more of them. Your blog is much better than a romance novel.
ReplyDeleteThe pirate romance novels that I once wrote about had the same characters over a span of like 5-6 books, so that was nifty. I like romance novels because they're how I was introduced to everything that turns me on, and I can't just poo-poo that, but now, I definitely prefer other books for reading, and blogs/porn stories for the stuff to turn me on.
DeleteDefinitely agree that you make a damn good sex blog, Conina! It's always fun to come read about what you have been up to!
ReplyDeleteDitto on you, Jake! And thanks!
DeleteThe pirate ones sound somewhat different than the ones I've read. I honestly don't think I read anything that would qualify as a romance novel until around 2004, when I started reading vampire/paranormal "romance", but they all follow the exact same pattern that I don't like, and the sex didn't turn me on. Way too much gushing about how great the woman was, how great it was to be near her, touching her, and her narrow waist and her small white teeth, and her beautiful soul, and how she gave color to his black and white world. Hardly any gushing about the man, so . . . very annoying. One author in particular spent 95% of the sex scenes with the man doing oral sex on the woman, which I just have to skip over. And any author who tried to expand beyond the formula romance theme by developing sub-plots and such, was so bothered by romance fan backlash that she gave up the attempt and made the books as predictable and couple-focused as possible. So I gave them up altogether.
ReplyDeleteProbably for the best. Only so much formulaic writing a brain can handle.
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