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Structural Editing for Romance Novelists
Rating: 4.4 out of 5(27 ratings)
191 students
Created byNina Harrington
Last updated 8/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • In-Depth story structure techniques for building a page turning romance novel
  • How to use the Eight Key story beats of every romance as the spine for your novel.
  • Detailed story structure breakdown of a published romance novel
  • How you can avoid clichés using the power of transformational character arcs.
  • A powerful Eight Step Structural Editing Process that you can apply to any romance fiction project.

Course content

5 sections17 lectures1h 19m total length
  • Introduction11:16

    Master structural editing for romance novels using the four act and eight sequence structures to develop plot and character arcs, followed by an eight-step editing process.

  • How to make best use of the course materials.1:59

Requirements

  • A completed first draft of a romance novel or novella.
  • Pen and paper and word processing software.
  • A love of the romance genre and subgenres.

Description

Once you have created a working first draft of your romance project, the hard work of self-editing begins.

Story structure editing, which is also known as developmental editing, is the most important stage in the self-editing process.

When a reader picks up a romance book they expect to be entertained.

But more than that. They want to step into the shoes of these characters and be swept away on their journey as they fall in love.

The path the two main characters take on the pages of your book should be choreographed and shaped into the most effective and engaging sequence possible to create a page-turning emotional experience for the reader.

How do you achieve that? By leveraging the power of story craft and story structure.

In this course I will share with you the story structure editing techniques that I use is my own award-winning romance fiction.

My Eight-Step Structural Editing Process can be applied to the first draft of any romance writing project, including short stories, novellas, novels and screenplays.

Who this course is for:

  • Authors who want to write a romance novel.
  • Authors interested in learning more about commercial romance story structure.