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Pride Special: The Joys of Writing Queer Love Stories

Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast

CHAPTER

How to Write a Romance

Most of your books, as you mentioned, are romances. They have a kind of an expected structure. Do you think in terms of the beats of romance when you're writing? I write to the three-act structure, right? After 40 books, I think I've pretty much internalized the structure. But yes, a romance does need to have basically the same things every time.

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