Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Tips On Writing Western Romance Novels

By Aimee Schwartz


The best-selling novels in the North America are the romance novels. It is about 40 percent fiction which means if you want write a novel of this genre, you will not lose the market as long as the book is interesting to the readers. The romantic writer that is highest paid worldwide is Danielle steel and then Nicholas sparks according to 2011 statistics. If you decide to write western romance novels, then you have to get the facts straight.

What should one be keen on when writing a romantic, western novel? After doing the research, do not ignore it because you might end up causing huge factual errors or moreover, do not use more than is necessary from your research. If you have decided, for example, to write a historical romantic western novel, get your facts right about transportation and cultures.

Usually, when writing a romantic novel, you should avoid using the perfect people for your characters and as much as perfect does not exist it will make your characters boring and so will be the story. At their first encounter, the hero and the heroine should seem not to like each other but as the story builds, they fall for each other hence the interest of the reader is peaked.

How can a writer avoid being boring? Making the mistake of boring the reader can be fatal to your story so do not delay in bringing the two characters together so as to make the reader interested. There should be conflicts between the hero and the heroine and how they solve it.

For an aspiring writer, there are guidelines that one should follow while breaking into the love genre. Writing romantic pieces has its own rules to make the story interesting. First, you have to sketch around the rapport of the main characters, man and woman. Picture the hero to be a witty, humorous and a strong character while the heroine is a likable person too.

One of the important things you have to do in writing a novel is to be conversant with what is going on in the market so it means you have to look for the recently published items on the subgenre and genre you have decided to focus on. They include; western romance, romantic comedy, historical or contemporary romance among others.

Is it a good idea to join a writers club? Yes it is a great idea. Whenever you feel stuck or overwhelmed by a story, you can talk about it with your group members. The good thing about technology nowadays is that you can choose to join a writers club online or locally. Also, its good to read a lot of books about tips on romance writing which can also be found online.

Romantic novels are fantasies that the readers want to experience. For example, while reading a romantic novel, you get to escape from the real world and fall for that man who in real life does not exist or maybe you will never date him because he is maybe too intelligent, rich or handsome or very powerful. The readers want a hero they can look up to; a role model.




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