Romance Plot Exercise – The Story within the Story Time: 30-45 minutes Action Step #1 – In life, plot abounds. You carry around with you the sum total of all your experiences. Each day yields more experience to drive your actions. For actors, plot answers the question, “What is my motivation?” Without [...]
Romance Writing Genre Exercise – How many are there and which ones are you good at? Time: 30-60 minutes Action Step #1 – Every story or novel that is written falls into a category. These categories are called genres, romance for example is a genre. Some of the more popular ones include: Action/adventure, [...]
Romance Dialogue Exercise – Say it with Words Time: 30-60 minutes Action Step #1 – Dialogue bridges the gap in your story scenes. A story that is strictly narrative is boring. Your characters don’t ring true to the reader because you only get to see them from the point of view of the [...]
Conflict Exercise – Who is Fighting Who? Time: 30-45 minutes Action Step #1 – For your story to succeed, give your readers a reason to journey to the very end with you. This is where conflict comes in. Real life doesn’t exist without conflict of some sort and neither does life in your [...]
Character Development Exercise – Creating the Back Story Time: 30-60 minutes Action Step #1 – Each character has a story to tell. That story is created by you behind the scenes. In your stories, characters don’t begin at the beginning of life like Venus springing full grown from the head of Zeus. So, [...]
Character Description Exercise – Helping the Reader to See Time: 30 – 60 minutes Action Step #1 – What goes into turning a simple description into a character? There are several things to consider: What are they wearing at the time you meet them? What are they doing? How do they look? The last question [...]
Time: 20 Minutes Action Step #1 Write a scene (at least 3-5 paragraphs) in any point of view; first person, third person, omniscient, whichever feels right for the scene. Action Step #2 Rewrite that same scene with a different point of view. Action Step #3 Analyze how the feel of the scene changes. How it [...]
Time: 20-40 Minutes Action Step #1 – Your hero or heroine is alone in an elevator with a chatty person. How does your character respond? What facial expressions do they make? What are their thoughts? Do they gesture? Fidget? Do they engage the chatty person, ignore them or are they blunt and tell them to [...]
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