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Ep 23 - Complex Characters, Contradictions and Diverse Romance with Denise Giddings

Romancing the Story: Writing Romance, Storytelling, and Book Structure

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How to Write a Romance

I really believe that all of us have a creative side and that, you know, oftentimes we suppress that part of us. So I'm always going to be looking for opportunities to develop myself. And what I wanted for my books is for them to be more than romance. I wanted them to be believable characters that had to make tough decisions sometimes.And one of the things I do is I collect ideas. That idea came for me when I was volunteering at a chamber,. He then said he was from Nebraska. It's just an average lady who just goes about her business. She doesn't bother anyone or anything. But then like you say, she's thrust into these other situations.

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