How To Get The Best Of The Western Romance Novels

By Aimee Schwartz


Romantic novels are the highest selling novels in North America which makes up to 40 percent fiction which means if your book is good, it will sell. Romance readers look for new books to read every day so it means the market is ever growing. The highest paid romance writer in the world is Danielle steel with close to $35 million back in 2011 followed by Nicholas Sparks. If you want to write western romance novels, you have to research on history of the west.

There are a lot of flaws people make while writing a romantic novel from the western. You ought to do a lot of research and make sure you use it accurately. There are chances that you might overuse it or omit some important aspects and your novel might turn out to be really bad. If its a historical love novel, make sure you use the correct mode of transportation.

Usually, when writing a romantic novel, you should avoid using the perfect people for your characters and as much as perfect does not exist it will make your characters boring and so will be the story. At their first encounter, the hero and the heroine should seem not to like each other but as the story builds, they fall for each other hence the interest of the reader is peaked.

How can a writer avoid being boring? Making the mistake of boring the reader can be fatal to your story so do not delay in bringing the two characters together so as to make the reader interested. There should be conflicts between the hero and the heroine and how they solve it.

There are tips to help an aspiring writer break into this genre writing. One of them is understanding the genre well. Romance writing has its own compilation of rules that you have to understand first. You have to plot around the connection of the hero and the heroine. The hero can be strong, charismatic and likable while the heroine is charming.

One of the important things you have to do in writing a novel is to be conversant with what is going on in the market so it means you have to look for the recently published items on the subgenre and genre you have decided to focus on. They include; western romance, romantic comedy, historical or contemporary romance among others.

Can one join a writers club? It is good to join a writers club and nowadays with the improvement of technology, you can join one online or locally, entirely your choice. When you feel overwhelmed, you can discuss the details with them and you will realize it actually helps a lot. Read books about romances to also give you more tips.

Romance novels are normally based on fantasies. The readers want to escape from reality to their world of their choosing whereby they can go through the joy of falling for someone who in real life might not exist hence, the readers want the hero to be someone they admire in real life and even ends up being their very own role models they want to take after.




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