Story Beats for Romance Books
Here is a look on how to use Story Beats with your Romance novel
How to to Exposition – the right way
Keep reading for tips and tricks about how to write the exposition part of your story.
To Prologue or not to Prologue, that is the question
When starting a novel, many authors wonder whether they should begin their story with a Prologue. Keep reading to find out what a Prologue is and if your story should include one. What is a Prologue? A Prologue is a short scene that gives a glimpse into the main plot that you may have not been otherwise able to convey. It may be a flashback or flashforward, or a scene from a point of view other than your protagonist’s. For example, something may have happened a hundred years prior to the beginning of the story that is crucial to know,...
The Denouement: What is it, and how it is important to your story
Have you ever read a book where the ending felt “rushed”? Where it was all action through the climax of the story and then before you know it… the end. It’s a sort of hollow victory, where even though there are no more pages the story remains unfinished in your psyche. This is where the denouement comes in. Deriving from the French verb denouer, which means to unwind or unknot, the denouement has come to mean the moment in a story where all the plot points are resolved, and all the loose threads pulled together. When writing a novel, however,...
How to write realistic child characters
We are all familiar with the common child characters as portrayed in media. They are either ten going on forty, who speak and think like miniature adults, or perpetually stuck in toddlerhood, the stereotypical caricature of a helpless (and often annoying) baby. Well-written children in books are like a unicorn. Hard to find, but an amazing experience when you do. The most common advice that authors receive when writing children is to “not make them wise beyond their years” and to “not write their lisp into the story, even if that is how they speak”. While this is great advice...