I HAVE NEVER WRITTEN A ROMANCE novel, or even an amorous short story, and so with some trepidation, I visited the Romance Writing Academy’s pleasing pink website at romancewritingacademy.com and logged onto a course titled “The Five Essential Building Blocks of the Romance Novel.”
In an engaging video lecture about characterization, founder and instructor Jeanne De Vita explained that successful main characters in romance novels need powerful goals that have nothing to do with falling in love. In her quiz about world-building, I learned that authors of romance/paranormal hybrid novels often keep a “bible” of complicated details