There's all this stuff in my head...: Writing Down the Bones: Story Construction and Evaluation The Romance Novel pt 4 Story structure

Okay so it looks like I fell off the planet. Promise - I'm still here. The last four years have been ... hard. There's no other word for it. Everything is fine. I'm fine, but I've been the caregiver of my mom who has Dementia. Between her needs, work, etc I seem to have lost control of my time. I am still writing and am trying hard to get back to my blog.

In case you weren't aware Phaze and HSWF which where under the Mundania Umbrella have closed. I was smart enough to get my titles back before all this happened. I'm happy to say the three books I sold to HSWF have been picked up by Melange Books and are available through their Satin Books imprint. I have even sold a new title to them called Magical Quest due out in 2022

I have also been lucky enough to find a publisher for my Vespian Way series. I'm now with Blushing Books under the name of Bethany Drake. I have five titles out with them right now and am close to submitting two more. There's Desire's Destiny, Desire's Duty and Desire's Promise. Then there is two in my werewolf series, Tears of the Queen and Legend of the Tears. I have just finished the rough draft of the third book in the series and have plans for a fourth one the moment I submit it.

I'll probably still be sporadic here on the blog. Unless I win the lottery and can hire someone to help me I can't avoid it, but know I'm still here still working hard in the background and am hoping to do better at keeping my blog alive.

Barb:)

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Writing Down the Bones: Story Construction and Evaluation The Romance Novel pt 4 Story structure

So I'm back to the flyer - I know you're mentally saying finally. Since it has been a while I want to remind everyone that this came from a hand out written by Janice Bennett. The writing the popular novel handout is from the mid eighties to early nineties.

This section is about Story Structure...

1.) Does your story possess at least three separate plot threads? One for your your heroine's goal, one for your hero's and one for the romance?

2.) Is each of the plot threads believable? Does the order of the incidents follow logically? Is there a cause and effect?

3.) Is the resolution emotionally satisfying?

4.) Is the Story worth telling?

This one is almost word per word - Janice said it right and I couldn't see how my updating it could make it any better.