Author Wendy Knight discusses how balancing writing action and romance is a personal thing and why both are such important elements to creating a good story.
The awesome girls here at TeamNerd Reviews asked me to write
a guest post about balancing romance and action in my stories. That made me
giggle, because I had absolutely no idea. Clearly, this was going to require
soul searching.
So I soul searched. And after all the soul searching (which
was done sitting in a hallway waiting for a spider to leave our only working
bathroom), I decided this: Balance is personal. Very profound, yes? What I mean
is that I might think my novel, Feudlings, has the perfect balance of romance
and action, but I’m sure there are others out there who (gasp!) think there
isn’t enough romance and I need to up the heat level. Everyone has their own
preferences, and I think all you can do is write what makes you happy. Or at
least, that’s what I do.
There is sort of a limit though. I mean, too much kissing
and the story goes nowhere. Too much action and you lose the plot, and
potentially the reader. There needs to be some of both to connect with the
characters and get swept into the storyline.
Feudlings is about a three hundred year old war, so there
are lots of battle scenes. But it’s also got a Romeo and Juliett sort of theme
– so there is a definite need for romance when the two main characters fall in
love, even though they’re supposed to kill each other. Without the romance, it
would just be a book about a war. Without the war, it would just be a book
about high school (which, admittedly, is brutal all by itself). It needs both
to make the story complete.
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Thank you for having me!
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