Tuesday's Tidbits

Emotional Bullets. Last Saturday I went to our RWA Chapter meeting where Maureen Child and Jill Marie Landis spoke about their writing careers. The one thing that stuck with me was Maureen's description on how to make your books more compelling. She said that where action/adventure books have lots of real bullets flying around, lots of things happening in every scene, romance writers should have emotional bullets on each page. Very profound and a good thought to keep in mind when writing. In romances, we ususally don't have tons of action, but emotional bullets, increase the intensity, make the reader want to turn the page and add to the layering of characters. What a great way to put it. It's something I will institute in my writing. You learn something every day!