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“For my entire adult life, I consumed almost exclusively literary fiction.”
““Have you tried…romance?” she asked.”
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“Literary fiction writers live in fear that someone will say their writing is cliche, that they’re following a formula.”
“I can’t even reread books I love.” Article continues after advertisement She asked what I was reading.”
“What I sought again and again as I consumed dozens of romance novels in the weeks to come was the knowledge that no matter what happened, the couple would wind up together.”
“I had been reading the first 20 pages of Klara and the Sun for two weeks, but I finished Henry’s novel within 24 hours.”
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“It’s rare for a literary fiction writer to craft an exceptional sex scene.”
“Months before, I’d quite arrogantly thought I wouldn’t have much to learn from them, but they’d taught me a tremendous amount.”
“Second: sex scenes are excellent opportunities to learn about characters.”
“During my pregnancy, I was getting my first novel, The Divorcées , ready for submission, but I’d also started to write something new.”
“As I began to take writing workshops, I responded to comments and criticisms, but I thought of that as a way to refine my craft, not necessarily as a way to better satisfy my readers (even the idea of readers was new to me).”
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“But I was desperate, and so we walked over to one of my favorite Chicago bookstores, Women and Children First, and my friend bought me a starter romance book: Beach Read by Emily Henry.”
“For years, I’d wanted to set a novel over the course of a wedding weekend, and so I began to sketch out a remote island the guests would be ferried to, the histories of the bride and groom, their desires and secrets.”
“Third: even if your ultimate goal is to subvert them, you have to understand audience expectations.”
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