"Love" Scenes.
- sophiemer642
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"Love" Scenes.
Do you think gushy, descriptive love scenes make a better book, or is it best to just leave out the details?
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I agree. I read a wide range of genres and select a story depending on what I am in the mood for at any given moment. When I'm reading a romance novel, I expect such scenes. When I'm reading say SciFi, I would not expect them to take up a large portion of the novel and would expect them to be appropriate to the rest of the story content.Amagine wrote:In a romance novel, there needs to be gushy and over descriptive scenes. In any other genre, no so much.
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I agree. It's sometimes overrated and cheesy and sometimes it's needed to match up to the descriptive narrative in the rest of the book.CatInTheHat wrote:Sometimes love scenes enhance a story, sometimes they don't. I don't think it was necessary to this particular story line, the implication was sufficient.
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I agree with Amagine but I still think that in romance novels there is no need to write pornographic material.Amagine wrote:In a romance novel, there needs to be gushy and over descriptive scenes. In any other genre, no so much.
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I feel this way too. It seems like a lot of us on the page feel the same way....Mallory Whitaker wrote:I'm personally not into the racy/gushy scenes. I admit they have their place in some genres and/or plots, but I'm perfectly okay without them. I find them a little cheesy a lot of the time.