I started a thread like this in Fantasy after seeing one in Lit Fic and thought that we need one, too! <3
You know you're writing fantasy when...
...instead of crying over chick flicks, you're taking notes.
...your copy of Pride and Prejudice is in twelve pieces and you're not quite sure where page 14 went.
...your villain is every bit as attractive as your hero.
...your deepest wish is to have a man rip open your bodice.
Onwards!
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THE SCIENCE OF MAKE-BELIEVE
9002/50000 words
0 characters killed (not including minor casualties)
0 sex scenes
1 hospital scene
64 oz coffee/tea
144 oz diet soda
0 caffeine pills
2 screaming angry tantrums
8 Klonopin tablets
6 Zofran
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Oct 16, 2007 - 17 33
I'm going to make an insert right after:
...your villain is every bit as attractive as your hero.
...you villain *is* your hero.
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Oct 16, 2007 - 17 49
"...your copy of Pride and Prejudice is in twelve pieces and you're not quite sure where page 14 went."
How did you know!? And I'm not even writing romance...*laughs*
But I'll contribute anyway:
...when, no matter how hard you try to keep it a straight action/adventure story (and/or mystery, fantasy, etc.), your characters INSIST on falling in love and creating complicated romantic subplots.
...when this happens in everything you write. ^_^;;;;
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1,800 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2007 - 17 57
...you start trying to figure out how you can take three months of work to live in Ireland and meet the bartender of your dreams
...your s.o. gets mad because you keep telling them all of the great things the hero in your novel does
...you meet someone and immediately mentally match them up with a hero/heroine
...you start eavesdropping on your coupled friends' conversations, which they don't mind until they find you with your ear pressed to the door and a notebook in hand when they're having an argument
----------NanoWrimo 2006: Green Mountain Getaway - won and up for publication!
NanoWrimo 2007: Sudden Orientation
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Oct 16, 2007 - 20 44
You know you're writing Romance when...
...you start coughing from a dry throat because you're panting and writing at the same time.
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----------~Andi
Can't believe I'm doing this
~Andi
Can't believe I'm doing this
9,141 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2007 - 23 27
...people bang on your car window and scream with laughter because you have a "romance writers bring love to life" on your car from the last RWA conference. And tell you flat out you aren't really a writer.
...your boss starts telling everyone you write dirty porn.
...your own mother won't read your stuff because she doesn't "read things like that".
2,101 / 50,000
Oct 17, 2007 - 01 44
...your too embaressed to let your mum read it!
...that their really is a Mr Darcy out there
...that you walk into a bar/club and pretend your the heroine from the latest novel your reading
1,800 / 50,000
Oct 17, 2007 - 05 08
"...your boss starts telling everyone you write dirty porn."
Actually, no joke: one of my bosses knows about the writing, and when I finished my first novel and was heading out to the post office to mail it, he starts booming, "Hey! Is this the book? Lemme see! Let's see if I can open up to a smutty scene!" I was like, sheesh, yell a little bit louder!
----------NanoWrimo 2006: Green Mountain Getaway - won and up for publication!
NanoWrimo 2007: Sudden Orientation
9,141 / 50,000
Oct 17, 2007 - 05 44
yeah--the great thing about people who don't read romance is their ignorance.
I actually had to transfer out because this woman thought I was "abruptly", after knowing me for a long time and giving me great performance reviews--thought I was a bad influence. I mean--how can you cry discrimination when it's not race religion or whathaveyou--but your genre style?
Sorry about your boss--it must have been a horrible moment.
50,015 / 50,000
Oct 17, 2007 - 06 49
If someone told me I wasn't really a writer I'd kick their a$$ but I'm a little bit aggressive. So hey.
...When you can't enjoy your dinner because you can't stop listening to the conversations of the people behind you.
...When you console yourself after every break up wondering how you can make what just happened to you work for your next WIP.
AJ
----------http://www.talesfromthecrit.com/index.html, http://ajchase.blogspot.com/, http://www.myspace.com/ajchasebooks
50,001 / 50,000
Oct 17, 2007 - 10 53
... you refer to horrible arguments with your s.o. as Black Moments.
... the baby and the dog function only to bring you closer to the love of your life.
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Oct 17, 2007 - 13 24
i laughed. out loud.
----------in hilariousment.
and embarrasment.
i love it.
horribly horribly love it.
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Oct 17, 2007 - 18 33
.... you are the only one who allows your friends to vent for hours about their bad dates because you incorporate it into the scene you are working on.
... your favorite used book store owner emails you every time she gets in a batch of new paranormal romance books because she knows you will buy it.
... you can't re-read your favorite novels anymore without questioning their POV, pace or plot.
... you attempt NaNo to help you accomplish your dream of writing your first romance book .
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Jessie
la_femme_fanatic@yahoo.com
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oct 17, 2007 - 21 50
"...your deepest wish is to have a man rip open your bodice."
omg that is the funniest thing I've read all night and SO true. Me and my friend have an inside joke about bodice ripping XD.
I'm putting that as my MSN status message, totally.
----------Holding my breath. Waiting to breath. Taking a chance. Praying to Dream.
11,083 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2007 - 01 00
I admit I won't let my mom touch anything I write. Hate to know her reaction to some of the stuff I write. I also been told all I write is porn, but good comeback I have is "Porn is just sex, Romance there's a story behind the sex"
....you can't help but turn those impossible characters into BJDs and make photostories based on scenes from their book (I'm planning on this, just go type ABJD into wikipedia)
----------~ Ri
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1283643/
NaNo 2007 ~ Darkness' Light
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Oct 26, 2007 - 21 19
Are you by any chance my identical twin or something? Whatever I do, it comes out with a romance in it.
...instead of turning away from all the PDA (Public Displays of Affection) in your school's hallways, you take mental notes. (Then you wind up wanting to shred the notes, only you can't because they're your brain, and resolve to go back to ignoring the PDA and getting romantic comedies from Netflix instead.)
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Adoptees: woollymammoth ~ Indighost ~ DownToAllison ~ BeaconsBright ~ msdabeat0309 ~ julianns ~ Belle_Writer ~ FallenSeraphs ~ ManicSpider ~ Kuoka
50,634 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2007 - 17 55
When the PDA in your school BEGS to be written as a full-length novel.
When you become slightly obsessed with knowing the story behind your old favorite couple's break up and decide to write a few chapters in your book about that.
...not that I'm now currently in love with the guy my friend was dating... because that would make me a bad person... :p
----------NaNo #: 1
Nervous level: 50k
642 / 50,000
Oct 28, 2007 - 16 30
...while writing, you alternate between pacing, cursing, sighing, crying, blushing, and smoking...and often, in that exact order.
Or is that just me? *grin*
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Oct 28, 2007 - 14 10
-When a secret love child shows up in your story
-When you begin to contemplate the benefits of having your own secret love child
-...With a billionaire
-...Ex-navy Seal
-...Cowboy
-...Vampire
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Oct 28, 2007 - 18 53
These are all awesome, wonderful, hilarious, inspiring.
wish I could think of one to add to the list.
Z
----------4,843 / 50,000
Oct 28, 2007 - 23 54
Dang. I was having trouble placing my story into a genre. After reading all the other likleys, I clicked on this as a "what the heck - might as well" Now i think i'm writing a romance. I didn't want to do that. They left me no choice! oh well.
You know your writing romance when a side character forces herself front-and-center to fall head-over-heals for the MC, who was "sapposed" to be on his own.
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Nano2006: Thorns Of A Rose -- almost! not really.
Nano2007: Pray For Jay -- ...hehe, farther than the last one...
Frnzy2008-Irrational, Split-Second Decisions
11,452 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2007 - 06 22
You know you're writing romance when...
Your strong, silent, independent MMC suddenly becomes putty in the hands of your FMC, who before this point really, really despised him, but now she suddenly realizes she might have misjudged him and thinks he's actually quite attractive in a strong, silent, independent, masculine way -- and now both of them are spouting absolutely attrociously trite dialogue without your permission. :-\
50,200 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2007 - 01 19
You use your latest crush object as the basis for your MMC and subtly make your FMC reflect the better parts of your personality... All the while writing out passionate love scenes between the two of them that suspiciously reflect your own lustful desires for your current eye candy. Ha ha. ^_^
----------"The ever steady litany of a heartbeat, of one belonging to a lover, that is the most primal and yet most deep of Love's songs." ~ Me
50,284 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2007 - 21 50
...you see a touch linger a little longer than it should, and immediately plan out their lives together!
...you write a cuddling scene during class and everyone immediately assumes it's porn!
...you watch a movie and point out all the reasons he should just kill her and go for his best friend!
...you have the sudden urge to exclaim, "I don't even know you, and you're already falling for me!" when someone falls in front of you!
...you feel pathetic for killing off your MMC, leaving your other one to suffer alone! [WAA!!! ANDRE, I'M SO SORRY!]
...you insist it's not porn when you know damn well it is.
\/Guilty as charged for all the above./\
----------“If I wanted you to know what I said, I would’ve said it in English.”
50,033 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2007 - 23 12
You get mad at your husband for no reason other than;
.....he don't look like your male romanic lead in your story your writing.
.....or act like him
.....or smell like him
.....or make love like him either
mores the pitty.
When your husband finally takes you out to a romanitic dinner;
your too busy checking out every guy in the place,
for a good description of the new love interest in your '07 nano.
And then it hits you,
----------You know you got it baaaad!
50,188 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2007 - 17 20
...when you refer to iconator.com for inspiration :]
----------NaNo '06 - Akira
NaNo '07 - The Chalk Board
ScriptFrenzy '07 - The Starbucks Boy
25,709 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 00 00
it's 5 am and you can't go to bed, you have you eye lids proped open by tooth picks and you can't go to bed because your love birds finally made it to the steamy part....
You know your s.o will still be sound alseep if you ever do manage to drag your fingers away from the keys
50,011 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 06 33
Brilliant. I can tell I'm going to be quoting that over and over.
And for the record, I know I'm writing romance when...
I'm both desperate for, and dreading, writing the scene when the MMC and FMC are alone together for the first time.
Stephanie
www.stephaniecage.co.uk
----------Stephanie
www.stephaniecage.co.uk
75,201 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2007 - 03 48
...your villain is every bit as attractive as your hero.
...you villain *is* your hero.
HEY! I was going to say that one!
and this one:
...your female main character can't stop thinking about how good looking your villain is.
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----------Copper Cockeral
Need To Publish Your NaNoNovel?
So You Think You Know Phookas?
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity." - Albert Einstein"
50,040 / 50,000
Nov 13, 2007 - 18 17
Perfect! I'd go for it, but I'm too low on estrogen to be having a love child. With anyone. Even a race car driver. Or professional baseball player. Or sensitive lumberjack.
----------Kirby1960, Wiston-Salem, NC
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Nov 13, 2007 - 19 09
What if he were all three? ;D