{"id":1138,"date":"2008-08-13T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shilohwalker.wordpress.com\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2008-08-13T00:00:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T00:00:20","slug":"comments-and-questions-from-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/2008\/08\/comments-and-questions-from-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments and Questions from Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hello Shiloh, I\u2019m reading one of your novels now, and am enjoying it. I\u2019ve read romance before, but not often and so I\u2019m basically new to reading and writing the genre. I have a tendency in short stories to keep to one viewpoint, and in fantasy and science fiction that\u2019s often plenty to tell the story.<\/p>\n<p>Does that work in romance short stories? Have you any short stories published? And do you know where I can read romance short stories? It helps to know what\u2019s about there, to learn from it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read plenty of romances from just one characters POV, so yep, it works.  Actually, I think telling the romance from both the hero and the heroine&#8217;s POV is a fairly new thing, not new as in a few years, but just in the past twenty years or so.  I could be wrong.  But yep, just one POV will definitely do it.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to tell both POVs because I like learning the story from both sides and I like reading the story for both sides.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a number of short stories published, &#8216;quickies&#8217; or novellas, through Samhain and Ellora&#8217;s Cave.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellorascave.com\/AuthorsBooks.asp?AuthorCode=ShW\" target=\"_blank\">The stories from EC<\/a>, that I can think of offhand that are shorter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Whipped Cream and Handcuffs<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Silk Scarves and Seduction<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One of the Guys<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Drastic Measures<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One Night with You<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;ll be Hunting You<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His Christmas Cara<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Every Last Fantasy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/samhainpublishing.com\/authors\/shiloh-walker\" target=\"_blank\">From Samhain<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Hunter&#8217;s Pride<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Malachi<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Huntress<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are two novellas in anthologies from Berkley as well.  *G*  Yeah, I tend to do a lot of short stories and novellas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve found that I really don\u2019t like reading short stories because so few people seem to be able to do them WELL. Typically I end up disappointed and it\u2019s almost always because of the lack of character development or contradictory actions made by poorly developed characters.<\/p>\n<p>Writing a shorter story doesn\u2019t mean it can just be phoned in. It actually means tighter writing and closer attention to detail to me.<\/p>\n<p>Your topic caught my attention because I\u2019m currently battling a character development problem in a novella I\u2019m writing and I needed someone else to remind me of the other options out there for making my characters real. Thanks so much for doing that for me!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Absolutely doing it well means tighter writing.  I think too many people try to cram too much into a short story.  They think they need the complexities to make the plot interesting, but the complexities too often make the story less enjoyable to read.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with your novella.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Shiloh, I\u2019m reading one of your novels now, and am enjoying it. 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