Comments on: Marriages of Convenience – Hot or Not? https://www.jackieashenden.com/marriages-of-convenience-hot-or-not/ Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:38:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/marriages-of-convenience-hot-or-not/#comment-5260 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:38:15 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=267#comment-5260 Maya – mmmm, yeah, I love it. I think it’s replaced Twitter for me. MOCs are pretty cool huh? I’m just hoping the reason for mine works!

Jill – Hehe! Yay for MOCs! Ooooh, that sounds very sexy. I love lots of ST. And yes, I think the shared past tends to help. Longing and wondering…such a lovely way to put it!

]]> By: Jill https://www.jackieashenden.com/marriages-of-convenience-hot-or-not/#comment-5259 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:57:34 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=267#comment-5259 Man, I love MOC stories, so I’m not the best person to ask if it’s “plausible.” I tend to go with it b/c it is like candy to me. I love anything with forced proximity, engagement of convenience, you name it.
One I read recently that I did really love was Liz Fielding’s SOS: Convenient Husband Required. It was a Romance, not a Modern, but I thought she pulled off the sexual tension well. The two characters had an interrupted love affair as teenagers and the heroine’s grandfather had broken it off and forced them to go their separate ways. I felt like their shared history made it a bit more realistic and helped the sexual tension as well b/c their first love affair was never “ahem” consummated even though they came really close. 🙂 So that longing and wondering is always in the back of their minds. . .

]]> By: Maya https://www.jackieashenden.com/marriages-of-convenience-hot-or-not/#comment-5258 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:20:17 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=267#comment-5258 I meant the Pinterest bug, not the Twitter one, hehe…

]]> By: Maya https://www.jackieashenden.com/marriages-of-convenience-hot-or-not/#comment-5257 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:19:33 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=267#comment-5257 Ha, I see you’ve been caught by the Twitter bug! I literally LIVED there for a weeks when I first discovered it! Luckily, I *had* to break the addiction to tackle the writing. But the siren call has commenced again…

I haven’t read a MOC lately, I don’t think but they’re a trope I LOVE!!

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/marriages-of-convenience-hot-or-not/#comment-5256 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 01:20:52 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=267#comment-5256 Elissa – eeeek! *checks her idea to makes sure it’s not weak* Well, I’m not sure really but I’m going to give it a go anyway! Thanks for the Faith, Elissa! 🙂

]]> By: Elissa Graham https://www.jackieashenden.com/marriages-of-convenience-hot-or-not/#comment-5255 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:32:29 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=267#comment-5255 I think MOC ( I love the acronyms in this profession!) definitely fit in the HOT category – as long as they are done well. I guess it’s all wrapped up in the whole GMC – if the conflict is weak enough that it can be solved in a simple conversation between the two protagonists then that birdy ain’t gonna fly. Same goes for the MOC for a weak reason. If the heroine could just get a loan and doesn’t really need the Hero then why marry him? Also if he’s a real prat – I think most women would rather cut out their own kidney and sell it than marry him. But the really good ones – yep I like ’em. Especially when it seems that one party has all the power, but then the tables are turned (usually emotionally) and I get all “ooooh he’s falling, he’s falling….he’s gone!”

Go ahead and write your MOC, Jackie. I reckon you’ll come up with a real hum dinger of a reason to force them together – torture them both like crazy – and then write the best HEA ever!

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