Romance novel template

Writing Template - How to write a romance novel.

There are three types of outliners, and I have experience being all three! I've now honed the outlining process for my romance novels in order to write faster and with more purpose. I share some of my favorite books for helping me outline as well!

Following on from our Mystery Plot Template Cheatsheet , which was following on from our Universal Storyline plot template , we are pleased ...

Use this blueprint to outline your romance novel.

Where do I start? That’s the first question many writers face when contemplating upon a new novel. Some writers are pantsers—writing from the seat of their pants without knowing where the story will take them. Other writers are outliners—planning out all the details before they begin. Writing based off an outline can help many writers avoid extensive rewrites, dropped plotlines, and the struggle to come up with a great ending. How do you start an outline for a romance novel? There are…

One of my most popular posts is for my Romance Beat Sheet, but one of my readers asked if I could create a Scrivener template to go along with the Romance Beat Sheet. Yes! If you're a romance author and use Scrivener for drafting your stories, today's post is for you.

There's a lot of things that you need to consider when writing stories. You can use any of these story outline templates to create a good piece of work.

This is a collection of 11 romance worksheets designed to help you craft beautiful love stories. Although the worksheets are aimed at romance writers, they can also be helpful when writing memoirs, and for developing romance subplots in any genre. Nor is their usefulness limited to romantic partnerships. With the exception of ‘Getting Closer’ you can also use these worksheets to explore relationships…

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month—write a 50K word novel during November) starts today, and while I plan to continue blogging throughout NaNo, I wanted to make sure I gave you something good to keep you happy during my crazy month. *smile* Of course, whether or not you’d define today’s post as anything good might depend […]