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InThe Romance Writer’s ClubbyKatherine G. | Romance Writing Club·1d agoYour Rom-Com Character Isn’t Funny. Their Flaw Is Just a Label.“She’s a control freak” is a description. It is not, on its own, a joke.
InThe Romance Writer’s ClubbyKatherine G. | Romance Writing Club·2d agoWhy Your Rom-Com Sags in the Middle (and the One Beat You’re Probably Skipping)Not every sagging middle is a pacing problem. Most of the time, it’s a missing beat wearing a pacing problem’s clothes.
InThe Romance Writer’s ClubbyKatherine G. | Romance Writing Club·3d agoI Mapped the Structure of Bestselling Rom-Coms. Here’s What They All Have in CommonThe covers are different. The tropes are different. The percentages where things actually happen are suspiciously consistent.
InThe Romance Writer’s ClubbyKatherine G. | Romance Writing Club·4d agoThe 15 Beats Every Rom-Com Needs (and the Order They Actually Go In)Every genre has a beat sheet. Rom-com’s is different, because every beat has to hit two targets at once.
InThe Romance Writer’s ClubbyKatherine G. | Romance Writing Club·Nov 710 Questions to Ask Before You Start Drafting Your Romance NovelA five-minute diagnostic that will save you a hundred hours of rewriting.
InThe Romance Writer’s ClubbyKatherine G. | Romance Writing Club·Nov 6How to Build Chemistry Between Romance Characters Before They Ever TouchThe tension readers can’t stop thinking about almost never comes from the kiss. It comes from everything before it.
InThe Romance Writer’s ClubbyKatherine G. | Romance Writing Club·Nov 6How to Write a Romance Novel from Start to Finish (The Complete Roadmap)Every stage, in order, with the decisions that actually matter at each one.
InThe Romance Writer’s ClubbyKatherine G. | Romance Writing Club·Nov 4Your Launch Emails Are Only Half the System. Here Is the Other Half.The read-through and series continuation emails that carry a reader from one book into the next
InThe Romance Writer’s ClubbyKatherine G. | Romance Writing Club·Nov 3Why Your Open Rate Lied to You Last MonthApple Mail Privacy Protection quietly changed what open rate means, and most authors never got the memo