Part 3 – How to write romance 1. Find your niche 2. Set the stage effectively 3. Write a strong main couple 4. Use tried-and-true tropes 5. Carefully construct intimate scenes 6. Don’t neglect secondary characters 7. Give your main couple a happy ending Part 4 – How to self-pu...
Sonja’s family is killed and she is raped at the hands of mercenaries. She then becomes a warrior to exact revenge. While a goddess who demands chastity from her is involved in the original story, her past with sexual assault is also used...
Which is all to say, if you want to write novels or screenplays, you probably need to know how to write a love story. In this guide, we're going to explore love stories of all kinds, from the ones that end “happily ever after” to tragic love stories and even stories that don't...
and we will also think about the scientific research you may want to do to flesh out your worldbuilding. Guidance will be given on how to find credible scientific resources and how to approach experts in the field you’re writing about. We will also consider how much of the science should ...
"a real homage to John Hughes, the '80s" and "an interesting intersection" of the John Hughes aesthetic and Laurie Nunn's modern voice. Nunn added that their aim was to harness this inspiration and "take tried and tested tropes and subvert them and look at them from a new perspective."...
If you haven’t read a lot ofbooks or understand the tropesthat readers expect, you can’t expect them to like what you write. Yes, it’s possible to bend the rules now and then, but you can’t bend them unless you know them thoroughly, enough to really understand where and when it...
Even when women write for other women, it can be hard to escape cultural pressure. Often,wish-fulfillmentfor women includes a character who thinks of herself as ordinary looking, so she’s relatable, but is still described as attractive – particularly in the eyes of other people. That way,...
It’s easy to write a check to an organization and feel good about yourself, but to further help survivors, we must work with them. Visit your local women's shelter, homeless assistance nonprofit, or domestic violence survivors group and ask how you can help trafficking survivors. When you ...
Contemporary and erotic romance author Alisha Rai writes romances that subvert racial and otherromance tropes and stereotypes. As Raiputs it toBustle: I’m not sure if I ever have an actual process when I create characters, but I do very carefully consider every trait and action to try to ...
Learning how to write dialogue is an essential part of telling stories that work. Dialogue is a character’s verbal and non-verbal expression of what they are thinking and feeling. It’s through dialogue that other characters get a glimpse into what’s going on in each other’s minds. It...