We hope to give you life-altering information on how to write a romance novel. We will tell you every thing you need to know to get started and how to plan your every day until you are finished. We will help you with your storyline and with your characters and tell you what works and what doesn't. We will even help you come up with super story ideas. Sound too good to be true? Well, of course it does. No article or book can tell you any of those things. You can get advice and tips-we do have those- but no one can tell you how to go about getting it done or how to get from point A to point B. Only you know the secret to that.
Some people in the literary world think that it is easy to write a romance novel. Well, have they written one lately? No book, no matter the genre, is easy to write. If it were true every Sally Jo and Billy Bob would be an author. No, it takes time and hard work.
With that in mind take the tips and advice we offer on romance novel writing with a grain of salt. They are only guidelines. You will need to spread your wings beyond these parameters and find what works for you. At least you know you have chosen a genre that has garnered much respect over time. You can be proud one day to state, "I have written a romance novel."
Any writer of any genre is constantly scoping the world around them. They are taking mental notes of how people walk, talk, eat or live their lives hoping to use it one day in their novel. Romance novel writers are no different. We suggest you don't leave it to your mental notepad to keep track. Use a real notebook and jot down descriptions, actions, verbal exchanges and other observations. If you read an article and it gives you an idea for a story cut it out and save it or write the idea in your notebook. Leave your mind clear to form the stories, not to catalog facts.
If you want to set your story in a certain geographical area or you want one of your characters to have a certain profession you will need to do some research. There is nothing a reader hates more than to read inaccurate information in a story, especially if they know something about it. A little research can go along way and with the advent of the Internet you can literally go anywhere in the world and find out anything you want to know.
Now write and rewrite. Let your romance novel sit for a week or so and then come back and read it again and rewrite some more. Now start to prepare your manuscript for submission. Start looking for publishers that your book fits. Find out how they like their submissions handled. There are many resources that can help you write a proposal, query or synopsis and letter of introduction. Now send it out and sit back and wait. You might have to repeat these last steps a few times before you get accepted but that puts you in good company. Many famous authors were rejected before going on to become, well, famous.