Comments on: Upcoming Blog Series—Writing the Romance Novel

By: dramaquill

dramaquill — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:27:15 +0000

I’d love to hear your thoughts on a sub-genre of romance novels, romantic suspense. Mary Higgins Clark’s one of my favorite suspense writers. I think Harlequin has a fairly new suspense genre. Just curious how much romance changes a suspense novel into a romantic suspense. And what’s the focus – the suspense or the romance?
Thanks – enjoyed your blog

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By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:01:26 +0000

Wonderful!!!! I don’t have any questions right now to add to the pile, but I can’t wait for the series to start.

By: Amy Jane (Untangling Tales)

Amy Jane (Untangling Tales) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:00:49 +0000

An internal-external thing should be interesting for me too. I’ve been having to manufacture more external and action for my WIP.

Of course, being fantasy I have more leeway.
Exploding trees and massive snake-attacks are welcomed.

I’m still getting used to it.

By: Delia

Delia — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:07:19 +0000

Woo Hoo! I can’t wait for this one!

I don’t have any certain thing, though, I want to hear it all ; )

By: PatriciaW

PatriciaW — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:05:43 +0000

I’m with Eileen. I understand internal conflict. External is a bit harder because I don’t want to put my characters in far-fetched situations.

Then there’s how to keep it from growing into a women’s fiction story rather than romance. And how to imbed the faith element without hitting folks over the head with a frying pan, making it like vapor, or mimicing a bad comedian’s stereotypes about Christians.

By: Erica Vetsch

Erica Vetsch — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:30:42 +0000

Yay! I’m going to sit on the front row and take lots of notes. Woohoo!

I need help on Knock Out Endings.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:52:52 +0000

Oh, Kaye, I’m so looking forward to this course! Writing Christian/Inspirational Romances is my chosen genre and I read so many of these each month but still I don’t seem to have a handle on external conflict that will sustain the novel.

Whether it is true or not, I’ve been told that as far as internal conflict goes, I can make that believable and work, but external conflict is a whole other ball game. I guess I just like keeping the peace.

Another thing is hooks. What I seem to think are hooks and what my crit groups calls hooks, judges don’t seem to respond to. What are you guys looking for as a hook in a romance novel, anyway?

Thanks so much for doing this course, Kaye. I’m looking forward to it!

By: Leslie

Leslie — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:19:33 +0000

Along the lines of Georgiana’s question – how do you keep the story line fresh without starting to sound cliche’?

By: Georgiana Daniels

Georgiana Daniels — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:11:45 +0000

I’m rubbing my hands together for this one. For starters, how do you sustain the tension throughout the whole book when you already know the hero and heroine end up together? I’m quite interested in structure too.