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    Write Bestselling Romance By Trope
    Write Bestselling Romance By Trope
    Write Bestselling Romance By Trope
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    Write Bestselling Romance By Trope

    By Alys Glass (Alys-In-Storyland)

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    In putting together this abridged guide over the course of a year, the underlying aim is to show you that you can definitely succeed in writing commercially if you know where you're going. Setting the stage in advance ensures that your writing sessions are a breeze.

    As authors, our writing may be motivated by themes that are very meaningful to us, but it's essential that we serve our readers by writing to the expectations of the market, and put them in the moments they seek most.

    Readers find sanctuary in the books they snap up, and while each story's magic-making details are sure to vary, there are mainstays that appear in books that rise to the top of the heap. The books that get it right.

    In this guide, you'll find every tool you need to write to the market with the essentials found in 6 popular genres and tropes.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHC INK
    Release dateDec 30, 2017
    ISBN9781386349525
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      Write Bestselling Romance By Trope - Alys Glass (Alys-In-Storyland)

      SCRATCH THE READER ITCH:

      There's a reason Alphas (and their inner and/or outer bad boys), quirky girls, sassyish-curvy-chicas, and rebel girls who resist vulnerability Dominate the romance market:

      YOUR MISSION AS AN inkslinging-cupid, should you choose to accept it, is to keep romantic-junkies believing in love (even as they may experience their own disappointments in that department from time-to-time) and inspire non-believers to believe again.

      You'll be the one slinging arrows of true love, love-inspiring romantic misdirection and sleight of hand, fated occurences, resolve-building challenges, and the final claiming of the rainbow-foaming coffee cup that is the glowing, HEA (Happily Ever After).

      Fill their cups with happiness.

      Book boyfriends are 75 percent of the rainbow in your ink. They represent the dream your readers are buying. They're aloof, magnetic, mysterious, charming, and dripping sex – in all the right places.

      They will disappoint initially, in an alluring way that keeps the pages turning, but they'll eventually come through for the heroine (whom many readers self-insert themselves into or root for like they would a new bestie).

      Whether they are ruggedly sexy, slightly damaged from a past they'll confront symbolically, or head-on, to brave the challenges in their romantic bond with the valor of their hearts (the same as they would on any battlefield of life), or they're suspiciously charming – winning our trust, they are the fantasy men romance authors build to perfection.

      They make life a little easier, inspire wisdoms that brighten the lives of your readers, and maybe even save marriages. It's nothing to sneeze at. Romance readers are honest. They make no bones about being people of the heart, despite whatever social masks they might wear.

      Writing romance, you'll begin to believe, too (if you don't already).

      Your readers are reading romance for a reason. They're lovers at heart. They crave that first romantic inkling, the exquisite unraveling, and the futile resistance and submission to the force that eventually binds and bonds hearts that are meant to be.

      Your readers want their fix of "the dream" – the one even non-romance readers want at the deepest seat of truth in their own hearts: love is an awesome force. It's at the heart of everything that matters most in life, taking us on rides that rise and dip along the existential unveiling and flowering that magnetizes the waves of the underlying, emotional sea.

      Whether through platonic or romantic love, the deep-rooted variation of love is what we seek, what sustains us, and perhaps, even what destroys us, so we can be reborn to seek it again, and in truly opening to it, reclaim it.

      Ignore the jeers that some critics toss at romance. It is real writing. And its formula provides a structure that we can utilize to challenge

      our literary genius. Writing with barebone tropes and a solid story structure to the expectation of your genre's romance readers, you will, and perhaps already are, disciplining yourself as an author.

      Mastering your craft benefits all of the multi-genre opportunities available to you in your writing career – by granting experience and an expanded skillset to the table.

      EXPERIENCE AND DISCIPLINE expand your sphere of availability.

      AND LET'S FACE IT, romantic storylines are at the heart of most stories, across genre. With romance writing, you will increase your mastery over the bonding-repelling-rebonding process that is found in all significiant relationships.

      Interpersonal conflicts can be a challenge to write effectively before you learn to make a checklist for your genre's essentials, and divide it up by Critical trope-character bones-and-personal-triggers, Polarity Points, Harmony Points, and Structurally-placed-Trope-driven-scenes.

      Once you have the emotional-romance beats/internal plot merging synergistically with your non-romantic/external plot, your storybones will have been laid, so you can get to the good part: wordsmithing.

      It cannot be conveyed enough that knowing exactly where you're going, on an underlying framework level, ensures the completion of a story that genre-readers can get behind if you've checked all of the boxes, and dazzled them with your writing/descriptive handling of the structural events that are critical to a rewarding/entertaining story plot.

      You are the provider of the pay-off your readers are looking for. The keys vary to some degree, category-by-category of genre book,

      but the readers keep coming back for their fix of the luxury items they turn to on payday.

      You are a (book) vacation provider.

      The luxury resort host. The tour guide of the weekend, smalltown getaway.... (You get the picture).

      You're creating a dream that can stand the tests of time for romance readers.

      At the heart of all of this is the internal struggle your characters are dealing with: the barrier for their own payoffs from love, to love and riches, to love and a new family, etc.

      The Bad Boy trope is a treasure trove of book-boyfriend driven, emotional resolution fostering, passion reinspiring, approaches to heart therapy – and the hope all of these elements inspire – for your readers.

      BUILD HIM

      Your Checklist:

      -YOUR BAD BOY IS:

      1- The Antihero

      His Bio/Trope may include:

      -A haunted past.

      -A vendetta/score-to-settle that's blinded him to the joys in life (His heroine will naturally help him relearn

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