The basic building blocks of romance fiction are conflicts: internal, external, and romantic. Strong conflicts drive readers to keep reading in order to discover who wins.
No matter how beautiful the writing is, if the conflict isn’t strong enough, the reader will get bored and go read...
You’ve just typed The End. Sigh! You’re done…
Not so fast. You can be absolutely sure that somewhere in that stack of pages are: embarrassing plot holes; limp love scenes; sentences that clank instead of ring; conflicts that go nowhere; colorless cardboard characters; and fight scenes with...
In this month-long online class, New York Times best-selling author Angela Knight discusses how to write a beginning that will have readers clicking the BUY button.
Knight examines the elements that engage the reader’s curiosity and make her care about your characters. She will explain how to...
In this lesson, I'll be talking about what to do to strengthen scenes that aren't as strong as they should be. The video is nine minutes long, so I'm attaching the first and final drafts of Mark and Kate's first love scene. I've made comments on both drafts so you can see what I did wrong and...
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