What draws me to the historical drama is the false social constructs that don't have anything to do with my daily reality. It's a freeing world to visit as I get plenty of reality on a daily basis.
It's funny, as a dedicated hetero-sexual historical romance reader, I tend to think my favorite stories are the ones with heroines that I want to self-identify with and heroes that I want credit for taming. Those are the best page turners.
Reading your post, what occured to me was that in same sex romances you get two chances to write a character that the reader identifies with (and/or wants to tame). If you ever feel like it, I'd love to read your thoughts on how diversity of your heroines' traits impacts your characterization and your readers empathy with the heroines. Do you feel you have the chance to write two distinct characters to get wide appeal or do you still feel constrained to writing an "every woman" character and an "every women wants" character so as to interest the greatest chunk of audience?
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Date: 2011-02-16 12:58 pm (UTC)It's funny, as a dedicated hetero-sexual historical romance reader, I tend to think my favorite stories are the ones with heroines that I want to self-identify with and heroes that I want credit for taming. Those are the best page turners.
Reading your post, what occured to me was that in same sex romances you get two chances to write a character that the reader identifies with (and/or wants to tame). If you ever feel like it, I'd love to read your thoughts on how diversity of your heroines' traits impacts your characterization and your readers empathy with the heroines. Do you feel you have the chance to write two distinct characters to get wide appeal or do you still feel constrained to writing an "every woman" character and an "every women wants" character so as to interest the greatest chunk of audience?