How to write romantic novel

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• Find your niche to write a romantic novel
• Theres no one right way to write about romance,
  it encompasses so many subgenres. Among the
  popular subgenres of romance include
  Contemporary, Fantasy, Historical, Young adult,
  Supernatural, Spiritual and Erotic.
• You may be concerned that your writing wont
  fit within the genre. Never let this come your
  way. All you have to do is just have to find the
  right niche. The best way to do that is by
  reading romance yourself! You may have already
  read quite a bit within a particular subgenre and
  youre sure thats where you fit in. But if not
  still, nows the time to explore the many facets
  that romance has to offer.

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• Set the tone effectively
• The setting is a must in romance. Romance is
  mostly about escape and if the setting isnt
  immersive enough, readers would lose interest in
  the story. The setting, in essence, is the place
  both reader and author come back to, time after
  time.
• So what is a strong setting in romance?
• Contemporary authors tend to have cozy,
  small-scale settings quaint villages, college
  campuses, etc. There might be a local landmark
  where the main characters frequently meet such as
  a restaurant or a bookstore. If youre sticking
  to the standard, have one of these compact
  settings where people run into each other.
• If youre writing for a more specific subgenre,
  however, your setting could take on different
  turns. No matter where you have set your story
  set in, the most important thing is that it is
  immersive and feels believable.

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• Creating a strong main couple
• Romantic novel is absolutely a character-driven
  genre, so your main couple needs to hook the
  readers. The hero (or the male lead) and the
  heroine (female lead) should be larger than life
  and still believable in the realm of the setting.
• The hero Writing a great romantic hero isnt
  about chiselled good looks and dramatic gestures
  it has more to do with emotional depth and
  vulnerability. Every Hero has a past that
  outlines his presence and his sense of life. By
  the end of the story, the hero should be a
  changed man, more evolved, more open, and much
  satisfied.
• The heroine The heroine, on her part, should
  have some challenges as well. In a common plot,
  the hero helps the heroine and vice-versa. A
  heroine should be just as strong a conception as
  the hero. In todays writings, the trend is to
  make the heroine resilient with a mind of her
  own.

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• Conceive intimate scenes creatively
• Intimate scenes are integral to writing romance.
  This doesnt mean sex scenes necessarily. You
  have to craft all descriptions of physical
  intimacy with a light touch, and only after
  sufficient build-up, make your readers eagerly
  anticipate each encounter. Steer away from
  overwrought, cliché writing that can border on
  parody and may disappoint the readers.

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• Build strong secondary characters
• While the main couple is obviously where most of
  the action is, secondary characters are integral
  to a well-rounded romance. Secondary characters
  compliment the world of your romance novel.
  Friends, family, neighbours, co-workers, and even
  arch-enemies all contribute to making the story
  come alive.
• Best friends are usually the most important
  secondary characters in the genre of romance.
  Theyre the ones who dispense advice, give pep
  talks, and generally add zing to the story.

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• Give a happy ending to your main couple
• Irrespective of how much trial and tribulations
  your main couple experiences throughout your
  novel, they should end up in each others arms.
  One of the unstated promises of the romance genre
  is that of the happy ending. It should at least
  be a happy for now, something to reassure the
  reader that these two characters are stable for
  now and will be with each other in the near term.

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