Sascha,
This is great to ask a man some questions – especially since the only thing my husband writes down is hockey scores and/or items he wants on his pizza. He doesn’t have a creative bone in his body and I would love to pick your brain just for a few minutes (or a week – we’ll see how you get along)
What do you think inspired you to begin writing? What is it about literature that appeals to you – or do you consider romantic fiction to be literature? Would you say it’s harder or easier for a man to write romance? What about the sex scenes? I think it’s interesting how psychologists say women are more into feeling and men are more visual. Does this affect your writing – whether it be romantic or not? Does it make your descriptions more detailed, or more black and white?
Through the eyes of a reviewer – to write must be an interesting challenge. What do you take away from reading other people’s books? Do you wish to have your books reviewed, and if so, by whom? What I mean is would you rather just a Tom Dick or Harry (or Sally, Mary, Jane, whatever) to read it, or would you want a review site? Professional reviews or volunteers?Â
Let’s hear what you have to say because I’ll be the first to admit I don’t know anything about the writing or reviewing world – as I’ve never done either one.
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first off, sorry for late reply! I love these kinds of questions because they get to the heart of what a writer is…someone to make us all feel something. In my case, lust, sadness, passion that consumes the entire being.
I will reply further shortly 🙂
What inspired me to get writing? I have no idea honestly. I’ve been writing since I could hold a pencil and never did I think I’d be doing what I do now, but wow yeah!
Hell yeah Romantic Fiction is literature! I recently remember Author Morgan Hawke talking about what Romance is in a sense, the idea of the story being that we can allow ourselves to feel sensual since human beings ARE sensual creatures, whether we admit it or not.
I’d say it’s harder for MOST men to write romance because the genre requires a certain amount of being in touch with one’s softer side, the feminine/emotional self. I’m half Hungarian so we’re all emotion LOL! I’m covered there plus the fact that all my friends have always been female and have always seen me as a safe point to let their emotions out to kinda taught me that this is what women want and do, rather than bottle things up like men. I can say some men need to stop trying so hard to be cute and should focus more on their writing if they’re serious about romance in any form, as opposed to trying to come out with soft porn disguised as poorly written romance.
Sex is sex. I write what sells, so the sex scens had BETTER be good and they had better be hot and full of the right amount of emotional details women love to read, otherwise i’m out of the game.
My description is as detailed as I can be but being visually impaired kinda hurts me in the regard that my other senses might be sharper but we get into trouble when I go back to coasting through life, unobservant. I’ve been told by reviewers, professional and otherwise that my description, emotionally is not lacking and that I bring a real world feel to everything they’v eread, a high compliment I’m grateful for.
Writing is a job that requires strenuous amounts of backbone and determination. Reviewers don’t often get to hear that becaues of all the things going on in their personal lives but a LOT of authors are workhorses–we produce and push what we hope are quality stories out of our hearts and often neglect ourselves. The worst part about that is that the creativity that comes from us comes from within our hearts, so you literally take a part of us with you when you buy a book.
Hells yeah I want my book reviewed. By everyone. I pray for favorable reviews provided the reviewers are my audience but I’m kinda vain in that I don’t care WHO you are professional/volunteer, I want you to read my work. THat’s the other reason writers write.