Writing a Romance?

If you’ve read some of my older posts, you know that I usually keep a running story in my head.  Now, while I am not a fan of romance genre, I am ALWAYS a fan of romance in a story or plot.  If there isn’t one, I tend to get bored…hence my dislike of war movies and Westerns.  (War novels are DIFFERENT, and “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” as well as “A Thread of Grace” are the two I’m thinking of that I love.)

This little running story is a period piece in England and early Americas (so the mid-1700s), and involves a wealthy demure noble teen who is “ruined”, the guy who saves her (completely cast with Clive Owens), and her future.  On vacation, this novel came to mind.  I didn’t bring a book, which is not an issue - even if I had time to read in the bathroom, the light is entirely too dim to even see your butt at my resort - so I turned again to my story.  Only this time I realized that I never had the initial bad guy factor back in and boom!  I thought I had a pretty good story.  I’m wondering if I should write it?

I like what I’m hearing about romance, about its strict structure.  So, given that I have this dargone fantasy epic killing me, I’ve decided to deadline it.   I’ve discovered through one of my writing lists this very affordable course:

http://www.midwillamettevalleyrwa.com/online.classes.htm

I’d like to take the September course, which gives me a completion deadline of 9/1 for Shapeshifters (again, that in no way at all describes my novel).  If it’s not done by then, it’s over, I’m moving on or just putting out what I have and moving on to something new.

BTW, I completed my short story.  Now I just have to figure out mood/tone and adjust.  Yay, GO ME!