Romance story beats

A reader asked how we'd place the 12 Stages on Intimacy on a beat sheet for the best pacing. Can we mesh the 12 Stages with romance beats in a story?

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In the past, I just wanted to write and skip all the technical stuff, but once I understood how beats pump the narrative blood throughout the story body, my approach to storytelling changed. Learn how you can use Global Story Beats to write your novel’s essential scenes.

One of my most popular posts is for my Romance Beat Sheet, but one of my readers asked if I could create a Scrivener template to go along with the Romance Beat Sheet. Yes! If you're a romance author and use Scrivener for drafting your stories, today's post is for you.

They’ve hit the scene in an incredible way, from the slew of Netflix films to the rise in rom-com fiction (sometimes called “chick lit”) in both Adult and YA. But rom-coms never really went away. They simply faded for a time, with new books and films releasing at a slower pace — a great example of w

Discover the 15 Save the Cat! story beats in Julia Quinn's novel, Romancing Mister Bridgerton.

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