Blogging Through ‘Scene and Structure’: Chapter 1 “The Structure of Modern Fiction”

As I wrote in the post Romance Novels: What Are They, Anyway?, romance readers expect their romance novels to hit certain “beats”—or, in other words, to follow a certain formula: The meet, the separation, the reunion, the happy ending. This expectation may seem limiting—stifling—to the creative process. Actually, as a romance writer, I find that […]