Car Masters

Love stories are always in demand by ardent readers. They have a passion for passion.

People young and old want to be on the spot when the heart goes in motion, the most thrilling adventure in life. This explains the longing for love stories. An author who makes visible by description, small bits of business and telling of events close in can put the reader right in the vortex. The reader feels exactly what is at stake for the lovers, fears loss with them and certainly pulls for the right guy to get the right girl. It’s okay if the getting works the other way also!

Certainly there is also a fascination with doom involved here. Doom “not in a good way.” It is easier for an author to set in motion impinging circumstances that will send the affair off course then it is to arrive at a credible “happy ending.” Love stories that get you to the church on time without stirring up a feeling of having been led by the nose are rare. We have an easier time accepting that what can go wrong, will go wrong and people will get hurt or stuck.

Still, going for the home run is fun for the author. Not only is he aware that the reader is pulling for him to pull it off, but he knows how loyalty gets built, how much else will be forgiven and small errors will be forgotten; happily ever after is what the reader will take away. You just know you are going to get a favorable opinion, often in written comments. So while authors nurse an itch to hit home big time with a long novel or screenplay, one that huge numbers of readers will love, in the meantime another smart strategy is to keep the ideas for completely fresh stories coming, capture them in a notebook, let them ripen, and release them into print one by one, with the hope of gaining the reputation as master of love stories.