Fine, Millie. I haven't seen you around very much lately.
Some drama for me today.
My next-door neighbors' apartment caught fire inside an exterior wall; the assumption is it was electrical in origin. Fortunately there's a fire department only a half-mile away, so they managed to get here quickly, and just before it reached the second-floor roof. We were trying to slow it down with fire extinguishers but since it was inside the wall it didn't help much, but it might have bought our unit a minute or two of delay.
Thankfully, no one was hurt (nor any pets), and the damage to their apartment and the one above isn't catastrophic. A close call, a sigh of relief, and now maybe something to calm the nerves.
It sounds like Romance is probably the right place for you.Coming out of lurking to say Hello to my fellow authors...
I've been writing here about a year and just posted my 11th story. Most of what I write is Romance - well, all of it is, really, except that the first series I wrote - "Love Among the Stacks" - started as First Time and moved to Romance as the story evolved. My second, "Violet" (currently in progress), is Romance all the way. I lean toward longer, slow-burn stories, trying for a feeling of real people dealing with real life in them. And most of the people I write are broken in some way, because that's what I feel when I write.
Anyway, saying hi. I'm going to try to come here more than I have.
Here, have the whole pot! It sounds like the outcome could have been a lot worse.Some drama for me today.
I feel most at home there, yes.
I'm not a huge fan of story police. If a story is in the wrong spot, I'll stop reading it. It's not my place to run the world, even the Lit world. The world's a shitty enough place without all of us enforcing rules that don't really hurt us most of the time.
Some of the category police seem a little unbalanced, but for the most part I see the reasons. Romance is an enclave with a small readership, and they don't want to be overrun by generic couples erotica. On the other hand, if you give them what they're looking for, then the Romance readers' approval can propel your story to the top of a contest.
That makes sense. I just entered my first contest, and my story's doing okay. It's not quite as good as I pictured it being in my head. But it is a romance.
Coming out of lurking to say Hello to my fellow authors...
I've been writing here about a year and just posted my 11th story. Most of what I write is Romance - well, all of it is, really, except that the first series I wrote - "Love Among the Stacks" - started as First Time and moved to Romance as the story evolved. My second, "Violet" (currently in progress), is Romance all the way. I lean toward longer, slow-burn stories, trying for a feeling of real people dealing with real life in them. And most of the people I write are broken in some way, because that's what I feel when I write.
Anyway, saying hi. I'm going to try to come here more than I have.
