Category dilemma: Erotic vs Romance

[August_Bouvier]

Every time I sumbit a chapter in my Kismet series I wonder if I've sumbitted to the most fitting category. I'm considering resubmitting chapter 5 to Romance.

I wonder if I under estimate EC readers' willingness to follow a story with sexual content that isn't on the first (or second) page. Then I wonder if there's such a thing as too sexual for Romance. The romantic elements are there but it's more subtle, it's slowly coming to the surface.

I've read you should post to the category that'll disappoint the audience the least. I'm still on the fence.

What's your pick? Romance or Erotic?

Thanks for your time and suggestions.


August

Chapter Five

 

[MarshAlien]

Every time I sumbit a chapter in my Kismet series I wonder if I've sumbitted to the most fitting category. I'm considering resubmitting chapter 5 to Romance.

I wonder if I under estimate EC readers' willingness to follow a story with sexual content that isn't on the first (or second) page. Then I wonder if there's such a thing as too sexual for Romance. The romantic elements are there but it's more subtle, it's slowly coming to the surface.

I've read you should post to the category that'll disappoint the audience the least. I'm still on the fence.

What's your pick? Romance or Erotic?

Thanks for your time and suggestions.


August

Chapter Five

Yer average Romancer likes sex as much as the next guy. He won't go for the BDSM or gay male stuff (not that there aren't some Romance readers who also read these cats, but I'm talking about the average), but anything short of that is fine. What yer Romancer likes is writing. If you write well, you'll do well there. You can actually leave out sex entirely, and THEY'LL NEVER NOTICE! Yer average Erotico, on the other hand, demands some eroticism in his chapters. If it's not there, he might still read a few more, but he's more likely to give up than yer Romancer, who's used to these things that go on for ever with cliffhanger endings.

Does this help?

 

[August_Bouvier]

Yes, that helps a great deal.

 

[bisexualsmoker]

That is why I haven't written anything really Hetero/romance sex yet.It would probably be
as lame as a harlequin novel.Pure fluff.No grit and dirt.Plain dull.Very sleepy.

 

[JennC]

Definitely Romance!

It forces those who care about their writing to improve over time. Instead of describing the physical acts; they have to concentrate on sexual tension and further more; they have to learn how to continuously ratchet up the sexual tension as the story moves along.

I like the way a heroine feels the heat as the cowboy stares at her while he leaned against the fence post. As opposed to she saw that he was as stiff as a fence post.

Just my opinion!

Jenn

 

[August_Bouvier]

Definitely Romance!

It forces those who care about their writing to improve over time. Instead of describing the physical acts; they have to concentrate on sexual tension and further more; they have to learn how to continuously ratchet up the sexual tension as the story moves along.

I like the way a heroine feels the heat as the cowboy stares at her while he leaned against the fence post. As opposed to she saw that he was as stiff as a fence post.

Just my opinion!

Jenn

Good point. I liked the way you made it with the fence post comparison. Made me laugh. Thanks.

 

[sr71plt]

I would think that if you skip around with categories for parts of a work you at least somewhat limit picking up new readers. They have a novel category here for the serialized works. I wouldn't change categories of parts of a series (for one thing, this signals a schizophrenic greater work--certainly not a tightly orchestrated work). Professional writing pretty much knows what genre the story targets and is consistent.