Writing Romance

Table of Contents

Part 1: Planning your romance novel

1. Ingredients of a successful romance novel (Preview Chapter One now!)
   
2. Beginning your story
   
3. Character-driven plotting
   
4. More about characters
   
5. Conflict and struggle
   
6. Territory - the bridge between character and conflict
   
7. Where on earth?
   
8. Planning and plotting

Part 2: Ready, set, go! What you need to get there

8. About computers
9. Research
   
10. Priorities, goals, and the garbage can 

Part 3: From spark to finish - how a story grows

12. Where do you get your ideas?
13. Writing the book

Part 4: Developing power in your writing

14. A unique voice and picture for each character
15. Sensuality in your love story
16. Suspense and story questions
17. Pacing and time
18. Viewpoint and emotional intensity
19. Telling, showing, and transitions
20. A strategy for revision

Part 5: Selling your romance novel

21. Preparing for the marketplace
22. Going to market

Appendixes

1. Yesterday’s Vows - book notes
   
2. The category romance market
   
3. Resources

Index

Samples

1. Hero’s personality & development
2. Hero’s relationships & roles
3. Heroine’s personality & development
4. Heroine’s relationships & roles
5. Manuscript format
6. A sample query letter
7. A synopsis by Judy Griffith Gill

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Excerpt from Writing Romance by Vanessa Grant, 1^st edition © 1997 Vanessa Grant.
(Cover Art © 1997 Self Counsel Press.) ISBN 1-55180-096-9.
Reproduced by permission of Vanessa Grant and Self Counsel Press.