{"id":338,"date":"2020-11-20T11:26:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T11:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2023-03-03T15:47:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T15:47:11","slug":"tips-on-writing-womens-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/tips-on-writing-womens-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips On Writing Women’s Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Women\u2019s fiction is a broad category \u2013 too broad, really, since women\u2019s interests are as varied as women themselves. (We don\u2019t have \u2018men\u2019s fiction\u2019, after all.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teasing out the heart of fiction women may enjoy lies, possibly, in relationship \u2013 and these can be romantic, but also historical or contemporary, comic or serious, commercial or literary. A rollercoaster plot alone may seem insubstantial without heart and drama, stemming from character and relational dynamism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without reverting to sweeping generalisation (since we all need light and serious fiction), reading women need and often demand similarly thoughtful reading material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve asked one expert \u2013 Julia Hamilton, author of Forbidden Fruits<\/em> and other acclaimed novels \u2013 to have her say on what works, what doesn\u2019t and what literary agents are after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Julia Hamilton Shares Her Thoughts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What exactly is \u2018women\u2019s fiction\u2019? And what differentiates it from \u2018romance\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Statistics tell us that women read more than men and they buy more books than men, thus the concerns of women\u2019s lives are very important to today\u2019s market. Women\u2019s fiction includes romance<\/a> \u2013 a big, serious market producing big serious revenues \u2013 but women\u2019s fiction<\/a>, just like the women who read it, has evolved to include subjects and themes that range beyond the constraints of romance. Literary agents<\/a> will respond especially to work taking old genres and reworking them in new ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women\u2019s fiction is a growing market that includes many facets of other genres: it can be literary, it can be commercial, it can be contemporary or it can be a multi-generational saga<\/a>, witness the success of Rosamund Pilcher. In all cases, however, the woman is the star of the story and her changes and emotional development are the subject…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The heart of the story may include romance but it is invariably a novel driven by a relationship at the very core of the plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women\u2019s fiction<\/a> tends to be longer, about 100,000 words or more, but it can be as short as 50,000 words plus. Longer women\u2019s fiction allows the development of multi-layered, multi-charactered subplots. There\u2019ll be more introspection and description and buckets of backstory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A man may be waiting for the heroine of these novels<\/a>, but he\u2019s not the centre of events. You have stories of sisters or women\u2019s friendships. Every major publisher knows relationships are all and there is almost always a life-affirming resolution, even if the story is a sad one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re interested in writing women\u2019s fiction, then you must read it in all its glorious diversity. If you\u2019re not reading it, you probably won\u2019t be writing it. Don\u2019t worry about where the story will take you \u2013 just do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women\u2019s fiction is a broad category \u2013 too broad, really, since women\u2019s interests are as varied as women themselves. (We don\u2019t have \u2018men\u2019s fiction\u2019, after all.) Teasing out the heart of fiction women may enjoy lies, possibly, in relationship \u2013 and these can be romantic, but also historical or contemporary, comic or serious, commercial or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[27486],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novel-writing","tag-get-published"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nJericho Writers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Julia Hamilton shares her thoughts on how to write women's fiction and what differentiates it from romance. 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