A Commitment to Romance: Now you’ve learned the basics and worked at your romance skills. This is the time to commit yourself to your first novel. By investing a couple of hours each day, you should have completed a 50 000 word novel by the end of our six-month course.

Building on the foundation already laid in the Relationship course, this programme runs you through the practical application of your skills. Using the Relationship course as a reference, we add to what you’ve learned and help you put it into practice. We will guide and support you as you turn your idea into a working novel.

You can do it at your own speed, and when you're finished with one section, go on to the next ... We suggest taking a week per section in the planning phase, and 2 to 3 weeks for each section while you're writing, depending on your schedule.

The steps of the journey: • Coming up with the idea and preparing for the writer’s life. • Creating your hero, heroine and subsidiary characters. • Creating the world of your story. • Plotting their journey, and deciding where to begin telling it. • Deciding which point of view tells your story best. • Creating the map of your journey – the beatsheet. • At this point you write your first chapters, with guidance on baiting your hook. How to introduce your main characters; the conflict that will complicate their lives and their love. Writing first lines that matter. • How to write in compelling scenes and arcs. • You’re now into the heart of your story. How to balance the romance and drama, maintain suspense and keep the story moving forward. Avoiding the sagging middle. • Writing convincing dialogue, that reveals character and drives the plot forward. • How to “show”, rather than “tell”. • Writing sex that doesn’t embarrass the pants off you. Using sex to take the story forward. • Memory and flashback, and how they help you get over the past. • You’re on the final stretch. How to maintain suspense to the very end. Happy endings - keeping them believable. How to end: the cliches vs the surprising, quirky finish. • Assessing the work. Getting constructive feedback. Revision, light and heavy edits.

Allaboutlove.net undertakes to consider every completed manuscript for publication and sale.

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