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I'll chime in on all three subjects.
In response to Jazen, yes, please join in, and as to your story, if you're going to consider it to be romance (or wonder if it should be considered as such) in any form, then you've got to have the HEA as noted above. But if your romance (although there is still an HEA involved) is more secondary to the story, and by that I mean, more of a back story, then perhaps you should consider it general fiction, or a mystery, or thriller. We would have to know more about it to get a better idea, I think.
As for organization, my day job requires so much of it that I've brought it into every other aspect of my life, and yes, it sometimes spills into my writing. However, I find myself rarely feeling organized in my thoughts as I write. I may start out with an outline but that outline is more A and Z, as opposed to A through Z, if you know what I mean. Like someone said above, I know where I'm going but the way I get there evolves as I write.
With regard to the "blinking" - LOL - Why is it my best lines and/or scenes seem to always come to me when I'm in the shower and can't write it down? (*she asks shaking her head*) But the scariest thing about the "blinking" is when it happens while you're driving! Always when I'm on my way to work in the morning it seems. I leave the radio off so I can think and my mind starts to wander. The next thing I know, I've run an entire scene through my head, I blink and find myself a few miles up the road from where I was last I remember. And I have no idea how I got there! Did I stop at that stop sign? Was that light green when I went through it? How the heck did I get from there to here?
Frightening!
In response to Jazen, yes, please join in, and as to your story, if you're going to consider it to be romance (or wonder if it should be considered as such) in any form, then you've got to have the HEA as noted above. But if your romance (although there is still an HEA involved) is more secondary to the story, and by that I mean, more of a back story, then perhaps you should consider it general fiction, or a mystery, or thriller. We would have to know more about it to get a better idea, I think.
As for organization, my day job requires so much of it that I've brought it into every other aspect of my life, and yes, it sometimes spills into my writing. However, I find myself rarely feeling organized in my thoughts as I write. I may start out with an outline but that outline is more A and Z, as opposed to A through Z, if you know what I mean. Like someone said above, I know where I'm going but the way I get there evolves as I write.
With regard to the "blinking" - LOL - Why is it my best lines and/or scenes seem to always come to me when I'm in the shower and can't write it down? (*she asks shaking her head*) But the scariest thing about the "blinking" is when it happens while you're driving! Always when I'm on my way to work in the morning it seems. I leave the radio off so I can think and my mind starts to wander. The next thing I know, I've run an entire scene through my head, I blink and find myself a few miles up the road from where I was last I remember. And I have no idea how I got there! Did I stop at that stop sign? Was that light green when I went through it? How the heck did I get from there to here?
Frightening!