Comments on: Want to Write Romance? Layer Your Scenes for Success https://writershelpingwriters.net/2017/04/want-to-write-romance-layer-your-scenes-for-success/ Helping writers become bestselling authors Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:37:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Romance layers | Couples Counseling in Portland https://writershelpingwriters.net/2017/04/want-to-write-romance-layer-your-scenes-for-success/#comment-567354 Sat, 14 Oct 2017 19:55:07 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=29572#comment-567354 […] scenes of #romance – https://writershelpingwriters.net/2017/04/want-to-write-romance-layer-your-scenes-for-success/ […]

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]]> By: Donna P https://writershelpingwriters.net/2017/04/want-to-write-romance-layer-your-scenes-for-success/#comment-553364 Thu, 06 Jul 2017 15:29:13 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=29572#comment-553364 My first comment on this site: Excellent. Now I can venture into the love story in my head with guidelines. Thanks a million.!

]]> By: C. S. Lakin https://writershelpingwriters.net/2017/04/want-to-write-romance-layer-your-scenes-for-success/#comment-543784 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:24:10 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=29572#comment-543784 In reply to Sara Beth.

Hi Sara, and thanks for your comments. It’s pretty obvious who the two lovers will be when the opening scenes alternate between the two, before the meet. In Colorado Promise, I have a lot of scenes first, showing Emma learning she must leave NY and give up her dreams, then running into her childhood friend at the train (who is the third leg of the love triangle) and travels to Greeley. All the while, the reader meets Lucas in Greeley, sees his world, learns of his past pain. So it’s clear the two will get together. They just aren’t meeting till a few chapters into the book. I like to write long, rich, deep books with deep characters, that takes time to build.

Hope that helps!

]]> By: Sara Beth https://writershelpingwriters.net/2017/04/want-to-write-romance-layer-your-scenes-for-success/#comment-543666 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 05:00:03 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=29572#comment-543666 About the idea of the 2 MCs not meeting in the first scene or chapter. I’ve written my romance books both ways, but I’m curious, because from the viewpoint of a publisher/editor/judge, when they are reading the beginning of your story, how are they to know who the 2 MCs will be unless they meet up very quickly? Just curious.

]]> By: Sara Beth https://writershelpingwriters.net/2017/04/want-to-write-romance-layer-your-scenes-for-success/#comment-543665 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 04:48:28 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=29572#comment-543665 This is a godsend, thank you.
As I’ve researched various articles about Romance writing, and just writing in general, I’ve discovered to my surprise, and dare I say, with some pride, I have nailed quite a few of the structural components of storytelling before I even began research. Now honing them is my goal 🙂

]]> By: Terri https://writershelpingwriters.net/2017/04/want-to-write-romance-layer-your-scenes-for-success/#comment-542962 Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:14:37 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=29572#comment-542962 I’ve printed these out and am going to compare it to my just finished (not edited) manuscript and see how I did. This is a really helpful, concise way of looking at the story, and it allows enough flexibility that all of us won’t think we have to rewrite the whole thing to make it fit a regimented format, but still know what parts we might be missing.

]]> By: BECCA PUGLISI https://writershelpingwriters.net/2017/04/want-to-write-romance-layer-your-scenes-for-success/#comment-542471 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 12:05:03 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=29572#comment-542471 In reply to C. S. Lakin.

Ahhh. That’s why I couldn’t find it online :). I’m speaking at an RWA event in a few weeks so I may ask Michael if it’s something I could share. Thank you!

]]> By: C. S. Lakin https://writershelpingwriters.net/2017/04/want-to-write-romance-layer-your-scenes-for-success/#comment-542368 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 02:20:39 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=29572#comment-542368 In reply to Brandon.

Glad it helps! I really worked on developing these as I wrote various novels, to try to keep from getting too locked into structure, but at the same time, these key scenes in the key places form a great frame you can fill in around and flesh out your novel.

I have a lot of other blog posts at Live Write Thrive if you want to read related material, including showing how I used this 20-scene chart with my last novel, Colorado Dream, while I was writing it before I published in last December. Hope this all helps!

]]> By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2017/04/want-to-write-romance-layer-your-scenes-for-success/#comment-542367 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 02:17:22 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=29572#comment-542367 In reply to Brandon.

That’s terrific–very glad it’s helping you 🙂

]]> By: Brandon https://writershelpingwriters.net/2017/04/want-to-write-romance-layer-your-scenes-for-success/#comment-542365 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 02:10:20 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=29572#comment-542365 This outline was godsend!!! I always had a vision of story, I finally started writing. I am essentially at “pinch-point.” I was able to take your outline and map all my story to the end. Thank you for the insider tricks.

]]> By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2017/04/want-to-write-romance-layer-your-scenes-for-success/#comment-541999 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 22:48:50 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=29572#comment-541999 Great structure model, Susanne. You know I am a big Michael Hauge fan, so nice to see how his ideas and yours fit together. I took a romance workshop with him years ago but don’t recall a structure model for romance, so this might have been something taught in a different class or came about after he was here presenting.

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