Hello Campers! Are we back from holiday vacation yet? No, are we REALLY back from holiday vacation? Big confession – I forgot my deadline last week for this column. Rude awakening, that. Many thanks to Rachel for not beating me! Now I’m REALLY back. Remember at the beginning of this series, we talked about the…
Tag: Romance
Writing Romance: Crossing into Act Two
Welcome, Campers. Last month we approached the turning point that launches our duo into Act Two. By the end of Act One, your characters will likely have stated – either in their heads or actually out loud – that they want nothing to do with the other, nothing to do with a relationship with the…
Writing Romance: The Inciting Incident
Last month, we compared and contrasted WANT vs. NEED. Again, we’re using Jami Gold’s beat sheet as a basis for these articles. This month, we’re moving on to the Inciting Incident. If you research “inciting incident,” you’ll find that most definitions include the idea of thrusting the protagonist(s) forward into the main action of the…
WANT vs NEED
Last month we took a step back from Boy meets Girl to focus on some preliminary work. Although you can certainly throw your Hero and Heroine together on the first page, it may be better to show them apart first. Then, when Boy Meets Girl, you’ll have the opportunity for SOMETHING to catch your characters…
The Beat Sheet
As I thought about this series, I realized in retrospect that I wanted a plan. And I wanted something for you readers to be able to follow along. And I wanted it to be totally available. AHA – a Beat Sheet. If you don’t know what beat sheets are, here’s the short description: The “beat…