Romance stories are predictable. Many stories are, but romance especially. Popular romance runs on a number of tropes and trusted story beats. While this could make the books very predictable (and often, it does), I'm not focused on that aspect, and I feel confident that it's the same with women, the target demographic.
I live in an old house. It was built some time in the 1910s. I like the charm and character of old houses. They have details and accents you won't find anywhere else. The owners, though, I'd like to smack them upside the head.
I'm apparently not very good at setting up new habits. I am attemping the 100 Days to Offload in order to keep me writing. I'm going to make an attempt at NaNoWriMo (or its community replacement Writing Month). However, I've already tried Inktober on several occasions and never got past day 10.
Another genre I've been reading a bunch of are romance novels. I haven't read any of the big names (like Colleen Hoover), but what I've read so far is very much targeted towards women. Here's what I've learned.
I've been reaching out of my usual reading genres (a lot of science fiction and fantasy), and dipping into others. One of those genres is mystery. Here are some things I've learned about mystery novels.
One of our early Minnesota tasks after moving was getting our kids transferred to local schools. We don't do private schools, so we transferred them to the neighborhood public schools. Upon moving, we started meeting neighbors and asked them about the schools.
They told us "it's really... diverse".
I recently decided to get Crunchyroll so that I could watch a couple shows that I was interested in. This was something else I saw.