Write a romance novel

Just a couple of hundred words – it’s my new resolve to try and write every day, and not let it slip.

Another 500 words today. I find this a good amount, not too intimidating and strangely enjoyable. I kind of want to write more, but equally I just want to work on this and see how long it takes me to get it done.

I also find it strangely comforting to be able to post the word count here too – just a nice sense of building on something!

Well, I wrote my 500 words today, and it took me about 20 minutes. I mean, it’s rubbish, but I figure that if I keep at it, I can get this done in a few months. I’m writing a mills & boon, and it’s a very simple story.

I have my hero and heroine at breakfast, and he’s reluctantly asked her out to dinner. Reluctantly because they’ve just had a row and shouldn’t really see each other again, but he feels this compulsion and so does she – apparently it needs to be all push/pull, argument and making up, right the way through. They had the most inexplicable row which stopped them from having sex – I think I need to work that bit out a tad more, lol.

Anyway, am delighted that 500 words is so quick and manageable to write. I’m not a writer at all, I just want to finish this fecking novel and submit it, and then go back to the ‘real’ one that I was working on.

Well, I dug this out from the computer. I wrote it when I was doing the NaNoWriMo in December, and I’ve pared it right back. So I have this many words. It’s actually not too bad, I quite like my heroine and hero, and it’s a bit purple prose, but my first sex scene wasn’t too cringe-making when I read it again.

I am going to commit to writing 500 words a day, which isn’t exactly a momentously huge amount, and means it will be quite slow work to get to the 55k words I think I need (110 days, or about three and a half months). But so what? My resolution is to write and submit a Mills & Boon, and all I have to do is a manageable amount each day, and I will get this one done.

So seing as I have to work over the December holidays and nothing ever happens here – I’ll sit and write my noval…..but as I’ve said I’m so negative now – telling myself it won’t be published! But I know I must keep on being positive – maybe I’ll be the exception yes? :)

I started writing, and re-wrote…..and re-wrote about 3x times. Then I went onto the internet getting tips on writing and now I don’t even think I should do it anymore. They gave me all kinds of tips about what I shouldn’t say too much etc. etc. I mean how can I write a story and think about not saying something TOO much I can’t be creative and wary at the same time??? I have so many ideas but now too scared to write because I keep thinking no publisher would publish my book??

I am addicted to reading Romance novels and wold love to write one of my own one day. I have plotted so many out in my head, what the characters would look like, how they would dress, the plot, the setting. Its all there in my head just waiting to be written.

I started writing yesterday and wrote about 5000 words already :)
But I would like some pointers because I want this book to be a success, can someone maybe help me?

It’s there….it’s always been there…somewhere lurking in my mind just waiting…
I woke up this morning after the most fantastic, realistic dream and decided this is IT!
Look out ladies, there’s a romance novel coming your way that’s gonna knock your socks off!!!!

I have characters, story line and about 1000 words…easier to ponder than do.