Romance plot structure

Following on from our Mystery Plot Template Cheatsheet , which was following on from our Universal Storyline plot template , we are pleased ...

One of my most popular posts is for my Romance Beat Sheet, but one of my readers asked if I could create a Scrivener template to go along with the Romance Beat Sheet. Yes! If you're a romance author and use Scrivener for drafting your stories, today's post is for you.

Romance Plot Arc 2

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Many writers identify as either a pantser or a plotter. I'm a hopeless plotter. As I worked on plotting out romance novellas I found I had to adapt a lot of the romance models for the shorter form. This led me to create the Romance Novella Plotting Cheat Sheets.

I taught a fiction class in Columbus Saturday (and by the way Columbus, did you have to make Exit 108B unreachable both north AND south? not that I’m bitter), and then I went to Wapak for a family day (Callie is two, can you believe it?), and then I came back and realized they were […]

Romance plots you can adapt in your own writing

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month—write a 50K word novel during November) starts today, and while I plan to continue blogging throughout NaNo, I wanted to make sure I gave you something good to keep you happy during my crazy month. *smile* Of course, whether or not you’d define today’s post as anything good might depend […]

A story structure represented as a diagram.