S04.48: J. R. Ward: Trailblazer

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

The final Trailblazer of Season 4 is a very excellent one—we’re welcoming JR Ward to Fated Mates! Best known as the author of The Black Dagger Brotherhood (a series that blooded Jen), JR began her career writing contemporary romances under the name Jessica Bird before turning to the vampires the romance world adores. In this episode, we talk about the twists and turns of her early career, about the influence of her mother and other powerful women in her life, about the business of being JR Ward, about her process of writing the Black Dagger Brotherhood, and about her relationship to her characters.

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0:00.0	So you have conflict, it can be external or internal,
0:03.5	and you can have stakes, right, which are external or internal.
0:07.2	What am I going to lose if I go with this person
0:10.0	and follow my love?
0:10.8	What am I going to gain if I go with this person and follow my love?
0:14.5	If I marry this person or if I commit to this person, will my family be harmed in any way?
0:20.6	Will I be in bodily harm?
0:23.0	Where does bodily harm come from?
0:24.9	Well, are they in the military?
0:26.3	Am I a civilian?
0:27.1	Am I in the military?
0:28.1	Like, how do you explore a landscape of conflict
0:31.2	that can keep two people credibly away from each other, right?
0:34.0	And the answer was there wasn't a lot, right?
0:38.0	So it all had to be internal thing, like, oh, I fucked you when we were 19 and you dicked me over.
0:43.3	Well, then he's a dick, so why are you going with him?
0:45.6	Okay?
0:46.6	Or I'm a flake and I'm dating five different men
0:49.8	and I don't really want to commit to anyone.
0:51.7	Well, then she doesn't look like a great heroin, right?
0:54.9	So the thing is, is, if you look at a paranormal world where the external conflicts can be arbitrarily created by the author to keep two people away from each other.
1:13.0	You suddenly have life and death stakes that are believable.
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