Dated

If you guys couldn’t tell (or if you haven’t read my debut novella, The Home of Our Hearts, yet) I’m a romance writer. I write in a lot of different genres (see Rani’s post on genres at www.typewritersjourney.wordpress.com), but it always comes back to the sweet, passionate, and touchy feely subject of l’amore. 

This post will be all about it!

I’m going to give five very different date ideas based on the genre in which your little writerly chick is the happiest. If you do this she will be inspired, and people who inspire us are loved forever.

Mystery!

To identify the typical mystery girl all you must do is look at the size of her purse. I can almost guarantee you that it is bulky and never lacking in contents. The mystery chick must have room to carry around a list of suspects, many notebooks to jot down the mysterious happenings around town and a magnifying glass to look for clues. 

No-Writing Date: The mystery girl would love an adventure somewhere that she has yet to visit or has some mystery all its own. Maybe a visit to a really interesting historical location that might just have hidden rooms?

Productive Date: You could ride the bus (or go to some other crowded place – see my post on places to people watch!) and write character profiles together!

…Romance…

Oh the romantic. This girl comes in many different forms, but will always melt when you call her gorgeous and never tires of gazing into your amazing eyes. Something a little more intimate and individual is required to get her heart fluttering, but it really isn’t too hard.

No-Writing Date: What about a trip to sit together under a tree in a secluded park, or mountain trail somewhere? You could plan a picnic together – with lots of chocolate fondue – and snuggle up to whisper sweet nothings while the sun is setting. If you want to make this date really cool make a mix tape of all of the songs that make you think of her and you two could dance under the slowly arriving stars.

Productive Date: Have a day when you appear at her front door with some cute small gift and then just snuggle together while she types away.

~Fantasy~

Fantasy writers love worlds with strange creatures and usually like wearing things that are interesting and unique. Usually they also have a thing for music sung in some literary language like Quenya – which we all know is the more beautiful elven language.

No-Writing Date: A trip to the woods or a meadow full of flowers would be perfect! Keep it light, fun and adventurous!

Productive Date: Draw Mythical creatures or make up a language together! It’s not wasting time! It’s fodder for a future story!

Science Fiction

Oh the nerds! Us science fiction lovers will readily admit that we are total nerds and would leave you to date an alien in a heartbeat, but might keep you as a pet if you remain weird enough. Haha!

No-Writing Date: This is easy! Figure out your girl’s fictional fetish (Star Trek, Stargate, Star Wars, basically Star something or other) and take her to a Comic-Con where the two of you dress up as her two favorite characters! She will be sold! For a cheaper option make a day of watching all her favorite episodes (or movies). Or even better: an all-out nerf war in the living room.

Productive Date: Productive? Since when were alien loving nerds productive? ;)

HORROR…

Maybe she wears goth clothes or you only ever see her reading Edgar Allen Poe on the bus. Whether it’s her black lace gloves, or the soulless voids that are her eyes you have a lot of fun options when it comes to the horror chick. And actually you probably shouldn’t call her a chick, she might just have a skull in her purse, with a hatchet embedded in it.

No Writing Date: Plan an intricate life or death situation for her! (Not literally of course). Horror authors like to get scared and they enjoy people with a morbid sense of humor like their own. If you are capable of truly scaring her (and then being there to confound that fear) she could not help but fall for you. You could go for the typical scary movie idea, but why not something truly terrifying sprung upon her when she least expects it?

Productive Date: Sit down around the coffee table and discuss the best possible ways to kill someone as well as the ghoul that will complete the task.

I hope this post gave you some ideas of your own and that whatever your girl’s genre is I’ve given you some ideas for a special writerly date just for her!

Love,

Deanna.