Novelists Unwind
Novelists Unwind Interviews Alexis A. Goring
Alexis A. Goring got her writing start as a very young girl. For a few years, her mother required…
December 26, 2020-
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Romancing Your StoryWhat Do Your Characters Want and Why?
What drives your character? What is his or her motivation for pursuing their goals, whether it’s defusing an atomic…
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Romancing Your Story
Should Your Romance Contain a Trope?
In case you’re unfamiliar with the word trope, let’s define it. A trope is a character trait or plot…
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Romancing Your Story
Romantic Tension
In the romance genre, it’s a given that your hero and heroine will end up together for a happily…
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Romancing Your Story
The Romance Point of View
Point of view (POV) is essential in all forms of fiction to describe the action as the character experiences…
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Romancing Your Story
Romancing Your Genre
In today’s world of literature, no matter what genre you read, you are likely to come across romance. I…
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Romancing Your Story
Location. Location. Location.
When I first visited upstate New York several years ago, I kept getting the feeling I’d been there before,…
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Romancing Your Story
When Romance Writers Read and Create
In my opinion, anyone who says they don’t have time to read might as well say they don’t have…
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BestsellersBest-selling author interview with Lisa Carter
Can you share a little about your recent book? I started out wanting to write another Christmas story and…
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Romancing Your Story
Tension is Necessary in Romance Fiction.
If you are writing a clean or Christian romance, you still need to build tension in your story. Depending…
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Romancing Your Story
Does Romance Really Mean “Happily Ever After”?
As a little girl I was enthralled with the classic Disney tales of princesses finding their “Prince Charming” and…
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Romancing Your Story
Writing Romance in the #MeToo Era
Once upon a time a romance novel plot included a heroine who wanted the hero to kiss her, but…
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Romancing Your Story
Why Are They Attracted To Each Other?
In my last column, I wrote about the first meeting. Now that your characters have met, the first blush…
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Romancing Your Story
“Setting” the Romance
What do you think about when you think of romance? Oh sure, there are the typical things like boy…
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Bestsellers
Best-Selling Author Interview with Johnnie Alexander
Can you share a little about your recent book? Two of my novellas have released this year. The first…
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Romancing Your Story
First, They Meet
The fact that you are writing a romance it’s a given that your hero and heroine have to meet…
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Romancing Your Story
Does Today’s Romance Have to be Formulaic?
Romance used to be so formulaic—boy meets girl, they fall in love, something threatens their relationship, but in the…
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Romancing Your Story
Romancing the Judge
We’re well into spring in most of the country, which means for writers, we’re also well into contest season.…
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Bestsellers
Bestselling Author Interview – Jolina Petersheim
Jolina Petersheim is the bestselling author of How the Light Gets In, The Alliance, The Midwife, and The Outcast, which Library Journal called “outstanding…
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Novelists Unwind
Novelists Unwind Interviews Jill Kemerer, Jessica Patch and Rose McCauley
Jill Kemerer and Jessica Patch join me for a Behind the Scenes look at the Resort to Romance Series—ten…
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Romancing Your Story
Should Your Christian Novel’s Hero be Perfect?
When writing a Christian romance novel, should your hero be perfect? I entered a writing contest a few years…
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Romancing Your Story
A Romance by Any Other Name
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet ……
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ScreenwritingWhat Matters Most
If you’ve been reading my column for any amount of time, you know it’s no secret that I am…
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Novelists Unwind
Novelists Unwind Interviews Mary Connealy and Lisa Harris
Novelists Unwind Guests Mary Connealy wrote twenty books in ten years–before a single one was published. But her tenacity…
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Romancing Your Story
Getting Inside the Romantic Hero’s Head—Part III
Have you ever wondered what the opposite sex is thinking while you’re thinking? Men, as a rule, think in…
December 23, 2018
