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5 Guidelines for Adding Romance to Your Novel
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5 Guidelines for Adding Romance to Your Novel – A Valentine's Day Special
Most people love to see romance in a novel of any genre. It's a universal human experience that can happen in the context of any story. However, most attempts at such have become cliched, sexist, or too unrealistic to be believable. So here are my 5 guidelines to adding romance in your novel.
Tip 1: Lose the damsel in distress trope.
It's the “romantic” trope of most movies and books, but it has become
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Characterization Workshop Schedule
Welcome to the NaNoPlotMo (https://www.deviantart.com/nanoplotmo) characterization workshop! Camp NaNoWriMo and Flash Fiction Month start next month, so now’s the perfect time to amp up your prewritting game by learning more about character development. A lot of you gave us suggestions on what to discuss and asked specific questions about characterization, and we’ve devised a plan to answer them in this workshop.
There’s a lot to cover, and we’ve decided to focus in on a few topics that will be presented in articles and interviews released according to the following schedule:
June 3 - Audio Discussion Panel with C-A-Harland (https://www.deviantart.com/c-a-harland), illuminara (https://www.deviantart.com/illuminara), DamonWakes (https://www.deviantart.com/damonwakes), and
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