I’m preparing to write a synopsis for a new book and I’m looking at all sorts of different story themes, e.g. Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Ugly Duckling, Pygmalion, Redemption, Reunion, etc.
What story themes do you like the best, and why?
19 July, 2007
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Actually, I don’t care for any of the themes you mentioned. If I was sensitive enough I would like a story about love, but I can’t write them, and the ones I have read sound phony. My wife says I don’t like chick flicks[which I don't].
How about an orphan searching for blood relatives, a wanderer who discovers him/herself, a retired cop who is out for revenge over his murdered wife, a clergyman who can’t decide whether what he does really matters? etc.
Let me know and I”l try and give you another list if you want.
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Comment by suppose — 20 July, 2007 @ 12:00 am
Hey, each to their own preferences, my husband isn’t keen on chick flicks either–his preference is for action flicks.
As a romance author I tend to stick to the tried and true fairytale themes but hopefully with a bit of something else in them to mix it up a little. In fact, in my first book my heroine was an orphan searching for blood relatives
Comment by yvonnelindsay — 21 July, 2007 @ 4:59 am
I like the stories where the h gets a makeover and the H REALLY sees her. I really like stories where they do a reversel and it’s the H getting the makeover and the is the one taking the second look.
Comment by Christa — 22 July, 2007 @ 2:46 pm
Hey wait a second wordpress, I wasn’t finished.
I like the reversel books. I think that was why Anne Marie Winston’s Nov. 2006 Desire, Holiday Confessions stood out in my mind so much. Even though the H was successful, it was the h that was a miilionaire because she was a model. She never knew if a guy was interested in her or her looks but with the H it didn’t matter. He was blind.
Comment by Christa — 22 July, 2007 @ 3:38 pm
I didn’t read that one Christa, but it certainly sounds like a storyline that would really appeal to me. Was the hero still very alpha or do you think he was more like the ‘old’ Desire hero?
In a similar vein to the story you mention, although obviously with differences, there is an old (1986) Mills & Boon, by Sandra Field, called ONE IN A MILLION with a millionaire heroine (she won her money in a lottery and her longtime boyfriend only proposed when she won her $$$). The hero is also a millionaire and both are extremely wary of gold diggers. Must get that off my shelf and read it again.
Comment by yvonnelindsay — 22 July, 2007 @ 8:07 pm