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Jan. 26th, 2007 05:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalWhich led me to wonder in turn if that's one of the salient differences between men's adventure fiction and women's romance fiction. In an adventure tale, the most important relationship is between the hero/ine and the villain (or antagonist, in the case of villain-less conflicts such as man-against-nature); in a romance, the most important relationship is between the heroine and the hero. Combining the two story types can lead to a sort of hierarchy-of-values problem. If two characters struggling for their very lives stop in the middle to smooch, it risks looking not romantic, but stupid. And villains have their ways of insisting that everyone pay attention to them
-Lois McMaster Bujold
I think this explains a lot about some of the trouble I'm having with "Unforseen Consequences" the direct sequel to "Unexpected Diversions" (as opposed to all the side-tracks I've written). UD was basically a romantic story. It was all about Tez and Maria feeling each other out, trying to get into each other's heads to understand who they were facing. UC is more a of straight adventure, with Tez and Maria facing a definitey villian and trying to solve a problem. But my two tragic romantics are still getting into each other's heads, which distracts from the villian's plot and leaves both halves of the story weaker, or at least not as enjoyable for me to write.
Hmmmm...
-Lois McMaster Bujold
I think this explains a lot about some of the trouble I'm having with "Unforseen Consequences" the direct sequel to "Unexpected Diversions" (as opposed to all the side-tracks I've written). UD was basically a romantic story. It was all about Tez and Maria feeling each other out, trying to get into each other's heads to understand who they were facing. UC is more a of straight adventure, with Tez and Maria facing a definitey villian and trying to solve a problem. But my two tragic romantics are still getting into each other's heads, which distracts from the villian's plot and leaves both halves of the story weaker, or at least not as enjoyable for me to write.
Hmmmm...
