Writing

   Okay to begin I love writing! And I mostly only write romance so of course there are those scenes in there somewhere. But anyway, today I was reading what I have of a story I'm personally writing and I noticed that I tend to put a lot of my personal traits in my main female characters.
    I've noticed that in all my writings I've put myself into my characters and based others off of people I know/have known. Not enough for them to tell of course but you know I still see it. Like my main male character is kind of based off of G but he's still different, and the main antagonist is based off of my fears of what Donkey could have become had I stayed with him. Probably the only characters I don't do that with are the main characters' parents. But all my mother characters are upbeat and crazy and the fathers are the calm peace keepers.
    Another thing I've noticed is that I always put my stories in settings that I'm comfortable in. Like the current one is on a cruise ship (I've been on 2), but I will also have the setting in places like a small town in Wyoming (lived in one, kinda), Las Vegas (grew up near it), or high school (since I'm still in it for now). I can not write my stories in setting that I do not know/ am not uncomfortable with. I can kind of write one set in Alaska since I have been a couple times but I couldn't write one set in, let's say, Germany since I've never been.
    Oh and I can not write a story without a plot/story to it. I have read one without and I have enjoyed reading them but I can not write one without it. It may be a small one, like the guy needed to please his mother and not hurt her by having a "girlfriend" or comforting someone after a major loss and their battle to get back to a normal life.

    And next I'll talk about genre. I can write romance with hints of comedy and suspense in it but I can not write a full comedy, suspense, horror, scifi, supernatural, etc. I have tried and my stories I write in those all sound like books I've read so I scrap them. And even my comedic and suspenseful elements aren't that noticeable most of the time.

    Well that's just my tangent on writing. And my mom is currently writing a romance novel and has a website with some excerpts so I leave you with that link: JJ Ellis