Recent Posts Tagged With 'The Hero'

• The Male Perspective

  Posted on Monday August 17th, 2009 at 01:01 in The Hero, jana, male characters

  As a woman writer, I often wonder if I’m getting my male characters “right”. Romances are overwhelmingly written by women. Are the men in our stories too in touch with their feelings to be real? Are we representing men the way they are or th...

• The Heroic Phallus

  Posted on Friday August 14th, 2009 at 01:00 in The Hero, hayley e lavik, the phallus

  Yes, you heard me right. I'm blogging on the phallus. We've had a lot of great discussions about alpha males and heroic leads here, and really, it's all the same topic isn't it?But I suppose first some clarification is in order. I am not blogging on ...

• The Hero Archetype

  Posted on Monday July 13th, 2009 at 01:01 in The Hero, jana, the heroine

  The Hero ArchetypeOne of most powerful and most commonly used archetypes in romance is the hero. The hero can be of either gender and is the person (or persons) the reader identifies with most in the story. It is through the hero’s eyes that the ...