Romance story structure

Are you writing a romance novel? Learn how to write a love story by including these six obligatory scenes of the romance genre in your story. #amwriting

One of my most popular posts is for my Romance Beat Sheet, but one of my readers asked if I could create a Scrivener template to go along with the Romance Beat Sheet. Yes! If you're a romance author and use Scrivener for drafting your stories, today's post is for you.

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A story structure represented as a diagram.

Want to write a bestselling romance novel? The Slow Burn Romance Trope is one of the most popular romance tropes when used correctly.

Many writers identify as either a pantser or a plotter. I'm a hopeless plotter. As I worked on plotting out romance novellas I found I had to adapt a lot of the romance models for the shorter form. This led me to create the Romance Novella Plotting Cheat Sheets.

In Writing the Romantic Comedy, Billy Mernit breaks the romance storyline into “seven basic” pieces, or “beats.” Most of us have heard that we should structure novels like p…

Romance Plot Arc 2