Comments on: INTERVIEW: Flogging the Quill’s Ray Rhamey http://writerunboxed.com/2006/02/24/interview-flogging-the-quills-ray-rhamey/ About the craft and business of genre fiction Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:02:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Edie http://writerunboxed.com/2006/02/24/interview-flogging-the-quills-ray-rhamey/#comment-482 Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:20:00 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2006/02/24/interview-flogging-the-quills-ray-rhamey/#comment-482 Terrific interview! I freelance edit and agree with everything Ray said. Terrific interview! I freelance edit and agree with everything Ray said.

]]> by: Elena Greene http://writerunboxed.com/2006/02/24/interview-flogging-the-quills-ray-rhamey/#comment-481 Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:32:00 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2006/02/24/interview-flogging-the-quills-ray-rhamey/#comment-481 Interesting interview, and I'll have to check out Flogging the Quill. I was interested to see Ray's list of common problems. I've seen them all while judging romance contests, but the bigger issue I've seen is with characterization. Romance writers try so hard to create sympathetic characters that sometimes they can become too generic--e.g., the terminally nice heroine and the stereotypically tortured hero. Although it may seem risky to give them human subtleties and imperfections, it's essential for creating memorable characters. Elena Interesting interview, and I’ll have to check out Flogging the Quill.

I was interested to see Ray’s list of common problems. I’ve seen them all while judging romance contests, but the bigger issue I’ve seen is with characterization. Romance writers try so hard to create sympathetic characters that sometimes they can become too generic–e.g., the terminally nice heroine and the stereotypically tortured hero. Although it may seem risky to give them human subtleties and imperfections, it’s essential for creating memorable characters.

Elena

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