Romance is a genre with a huge readership. Within the genre are vast and variable subgenres and subgenres with subgenres of their own.
I want to go deep into finding our audience no matter the genre. If you are writing in hopes of someone reading then you will need to find your reader.
I will be trying out examples for finding audience using the Romance novel to honor February.
Instead of going Full Topic on Superbowl Sunday I'm going to flirt a little, brush up against it and give you just enough information to be ready to stalk your reader and sell her a book.
We will talk about Audiences on Wednesday and wrap up the discussion on Sunday the 10th.
Let’s talk about the thousands of courses and books on the market. If we aren’t careful we may learn ourselves onto a blank page. Are Courses and How-to Books helping us or are they a distraction?
Sunday’s Topic Chat begins at 7PM ET.
Writing Magazine Articles (nonfiction)
We spend a lot of time here in the chat room talking about the art and craft of writing Novels and Short Stories and we spend very little time about crafting nonfiction.
Writing and selling an article to a magazine is a great place for writers to get a toe into the publishing world or earn some street creds. Articles generally pay once and then the rights return to the author. The slant or application or theme of the article can be turned and tuned and re-focused and many times live a second or third
life in other magazines or newsletters.
My awesome article addressing the ongoing needs of a closed land-fill may be revived and edited to fit well into a home-school unit study. Hopefully, I would be paid for each appearance.
There’s a difference between the ‘art’ of writing and the ‘craft’ of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder … but craft is objective. There is a right way and a wrong way to craft.
One of my favorite reference books is The Art and Craft of Novel Writing and beneath this book on my stack is The Art of Fiction.
Writers need a toolbox including the essential tools of grammar and punctuation combined with our voice, our unique story. Novel writing is not something to be entered into lightly.
