Action Romance

Okay, so today I thought I'd talk about the weirdest realization about my writing. I have this problem when I write. I write crappy romance and good action. Why is this? I don't even like action as a genre when I read. I have only read a couple books in my whole life that could be classified as 'action'. The genre bores me to death, so why am I so good at writing it when I don't enjoy reading it? Then there's the problem with romance. I love romance. That's usually my favourite part of anything, so why do I suck so much at writing it. I have thought about this long and hard and I think I've finally figured out why this is.

When I write a romance scene I cannot write one of the following situations:

1. Something I have experienced myself.
2. Something I have read.
3. Something that I think of as corny. It's okay to be a little corny, but I think it's a fine line and I'd rather not read something I wrote that makes me want to gag.
4. Something skanky. This is so bleeding hard, it's ridiculous. No - seriously. Since I like to write things that are a closer reflection of true human nature - this is near impossible. People do stuff ... but I don't like to describe it. This is a trap that I have to work so hard to avoid.

But when it comes to action - I am so inexperienced that I describe everything - which makes it better than the romance I write. I leave out the sensual (anytime any author uses this word in anything they write - I seriously laugh out loud. I cannot take this word seriously - it makes me laugh at the poor loser who wrote it and deminishes my opinion of anyone who uses this word. It just strikes me as too ridiculous), exotic details because I think everyone is well acquainted with what it's like to have some guy ... something or other.

When I write action, I just write what I imagine it would be like and I get far more into it. Which is the whole reason I write action better.

So, I think I'd probably write better romance if I hadn't drowned myself in romance novels/movies/poetry.

How weird is that? My inexperience is actually an aid.