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Romance 101
For those of you with experience writing romance novels, this will be a refresher. Maybe I’ll mention something you’ve forgotten. Perhaps I’ll touch on something you know on some level but never think...
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Romance 201
Last time, we defined the romance genre. (You can find that post here.) We talked about the: difference between romances and love stories rules subgenres heroes and heroines This time, we’re going to...
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Romance 301:Using the Senses to Create Sexual Tension – with Vonda Sinclair
We’re continuing with our archival posts today. And I’m continuing to delve into the craft of romance novel writing. A novel is nothing without tension, and a romance novel is nothing without sexual...
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The Face-to-Face Approach
Ciao, everybody. Today I thought we’d talk a little bit about building our platforms. By now, we’ve all heard the four principles for doing so: Owning a self-hosted website. Building an email list....
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Research: How Deep Do You Go? by Mae Clair
I’m excited to have today’s guest blogger with us. She’s a talented author, an excellent critique partner, and a dear friend. She really dives into her research, and she tackles the most interesting...
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The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit by Josh Lanyon
TweetToday’s post is a rerun from exactly seven years ago: August 31, 2011. When you think of sexy, well-written, and riveting M/M romance and gay fiction – Josh Lanyon is one of the first who comes...
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My Sister from Another Mister? (Your Ideal Reader)
If you write romance, you probably already know a general formula for crafting a story that will do the genre proud. And I mean a bit more than the “boy meets girl/boy loses girl/boy gets girl” trope....
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Building Blocks of Fiction
Ciao, everybody. Staci here. It’s my week again. I haven’t had a chance to line up any guest posts, so I started thinking about what comes in threes that I could write about with respect to fiction....
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Building Blocks of Fiction: SCENES
Ciao, everyone! Here we are with part two of the building blocks posts. Last time, we talked about scenes (lowercase). Today, we’re going to discuss SCENES (uppercase). And yes, there is a difference....
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Building Blocks of Fiction: SEQUELS
Ciao, everybody. I hope you caught this week’s earlier posts. On Monday, we discussed scenes, or discrete building blocks in a novel. On Wednesday, we discussed a proactive segment of story called a...
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