How To Write An Amazing Romance Novel: tips to get you from "meet-cute" to "happy ever after": Everything you need to take you from finding your romance novel idea to a finished and polished draft

How To Write An Amazing Romance Novel: tips to get you from "meet-cute" to "happy ever after": Everything you need to take you from finding your romance novel idea to a finished and polished draft

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How to Write An Amazing Romance Novel is a succinct yet entertaining and comprehensive romance novel writing resource that will take you from the very beginning to the end: It will show you different methods to find ideas, how to check if the idea is viable, where to get initial readers, marketing basics, writing tools, starting and finishing the novel. It also offers marketing, editing and publishing tips to get you ready for the next stages after finishing writing your romance novel. It features lots of helpful resources, quotes from successful romance writers, and analyses and examples of existing romantic stories to help you get the full picture.

Table of Contents:

Intro: Why I Write Romance

1.On Marketing and Platform

2.Finding the Idea: 6 Ways to Find and Develop Your Romance Idea

3.How to Check if Your Idea is Viable (through characters, flaws, and conflict)

4.Writer Fear to Address: What if I can't write a novel-length story?

5.Decisions, decisions...: Audience, POVs, diverse characters, sex and beyond

- Writing for the market or writing for yourself?
- Naming your book: the title
- The main audience divide: Adult or YA?
- Sub-genres: Sub-genres available to you
- POVs
- Characters
- Sex and swearing
- Writing diverse characters
- Word count
- Writing a series
- Writing supernatural characters
- Writing about what you don't know
- What about that pen name?
- Clichés and cheese level
-Themes and messages
- Three main types of endings

6.Outlining

7.Tools You Might Need

8.Actually Writing: Sitting Down to Write

- Beginning: When to start your story
- Opening lines
- How do you know if your writing is any good?
- Active vs. passive
- Adverbs
- A word on the verb “say”
- Writing dialogue
- Show vs. tell
- What if you hate what you write?
- Should you mention how hot your characters are?

9. Saving Your Work

10. Writer's Block and Motivation

11. Taking a Look at the Finished Product: How do you know if your
writing is any good?

12. Editing: An Introduction

13. 3 Possible Paths to Publication: Indie, Traditional or Hybrid

14. Favorite Romances and Romance Writers

Conclusion

About the Author

Useful Resources


Release date: February 11, 2019

Print pages: 112

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