Comments on: A Riddle Inside A Mystery Wrapped In An Enigma https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-riddle-inside-a-mystery-wrapped-in-an-enigma/ Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:21:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-riddle-inside-a-mystery-wrapped-in-an-enigma/#comment-1162 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:21:30 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=504#comment-1162 Tell me about it! The problem with sexual tension is that if you’re not careful, that can stand in for conflict and once your h&h get it on and the sexual tension is resolved, what do you do then? Where does the story go?
I try and work to the rule that when the h&h do get it on, sex only complicates things. There’s nothing worse than when the h&h sleep together and everything is suddenly miraculously resolved.

Romance writing ain’t for sissies eh?

]]> By: Suzanne Jones https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-riddle-inside-a-mystery-wrapped-in-an-enigma/#comment-1161 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:11:27 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=504#comment-1161 Thanks, Jackie. So much to think about.

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]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-riddle-inside-a-mystery-wrapped-in-an-enigma/#comment-1160 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:02:03 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=504#comment-1160 Suzanne, my thoughts would be that conflict is what drives the book and the plot so it’s very important. You need sexual tension too though because this is a romance and high sexual tension is part and parcel of Modern/Modern Heat. Sexual tension can also be a facet of the conflict too (the whole ‘I know I shouldn’t want you but I do’ thing). You need both but in order for the story to go somewhere, conflict is the more important.

]]> By: Suzanne Jones https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-riddle-inside-a-mystery-wrapped-in-an-enigma/#comment-1159 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:16:59 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=504#comment-1159 Joining in even later than Lacey – sorry (am still trying to get my comp chapter written).

Have tied myself in knots over conflict. And is conflict more important than sexual tension? Or is one dependant on the other?

Love and adore those shoes, Jackie.

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]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-riddle-inside-a-mystery-wrapped-in-an-enigma/#comment-1158 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:17:28 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=504#comment-1158 Sure, Lacey, let’s go! I’ll send you the shoes if you pay my ticket to OZ. 🙂

]]> By: Lacey Devlin https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-riddle-inside-a-mystery-wrapped-in-an-enigma/#comment-1157 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:31:01 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=504#comment-1157 I am chiming in late (this is getting to be a habit). You bought those shoes to give to me right? You’ll just send them over right? RIGHT??? Hmm maybe my shoe addiction is getting a teeny bit out of control…

Want to go shoe shopping with me?

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-riddle-inside-a-mystery-wrapped-in-an-enigma/#comment-1156 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:01:47 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=504#comment-1156 Lorraine, if only stories were as simple as shoes… sigh…

]]> By: Lorraine https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-riddle-inside-a-mystery-wrapped-in-an-enigma/#comment-1155 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:08:33 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=504#comment-1155 I know how you feel, I keep thinking I’ve got a handle on something only to find I’m doing it yet again – namely making my characters act to fit my plot when left to their own devices they probably wouldn’t…

Nice shoes, much less complicated…

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-riddle-inside-a-mystery-wrapped-in-an-enigma/#comment-1154 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:47:17 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=504#comment-1154 Cheers re the shoes, Rach and woah, talk about torturing your poor hero! Like it. I’m thinking he’s got major abandonment issues here – first his mother then his wife and child… Ooooh, can’t wait to see how he gets over that!

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-riddle-inside-a-mystery-wrapped-in-an-enigma/#comment-1153 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:41:55 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=504#comment-1153 I should have added that the above is just my opinion.:-)

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