by Holland Rae | Jan 29, 2020 | Characters, Editing, Industry, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Reading, Research
Easy reading is damn hard writing. – Nathaniel Hawthorne From the outside, writing doesn’t look too hard. After all, I spent eight to ten hours a day on my computer, doing the thing I love most in the world. What could be difficult about that? I get to...
by Holland Rae | Jan 22, 2020 | Characters, Heroines, Musings, My Books, Reading, Research, Romance Novels, RWA, Statistics, Women, Women's Rights
There are some pretty distinct rules that separate romance novels from every other genre, including genres with love stories. The most obvious of which is the HEA, The Happily Ever After, where the reader is left with a sense that, not only is everything okay right...
by Holland Rae | Jan 14, 2020 | Characters, Industry, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Research, Romance Novels
I’m not going to take the necessary time to go over all the ways romance gets a bad rap. If you read or write the genre, you know that it’s up against a high level of misconception and condescension for myriad reasons. But despite all those things people tend to say...
by Holland Rae | Jan 11, 2020 | Editing, Industry, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Research, Romance Novels
Throughout the course of our artistic careers, we will evolve and grow into different habits, styles, and approaches to telling stories. Some of us are outliners, some of us are completely insane and dive right in without a second thought. Each book or story will...
by Holland Rae | Dec 3, 2019 | Editing, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, National Novel Writing Month, Research, Romance Novels, Series
Happy December! It’s the holiday season, chilly weather and the best part of all — National Novel Writing Month is over. Over. This is officially my tenth successful year, of 11 attempted, and I’m surprisingly pleased with my final product. I completed the first book...
by Holland Rae | Oct 14, 2019 | Industry, Musings, My Books, Research, Romance Novels
I can’t say I’m a huge William Faulkner fan. Not being of his era or his environment, I shy away from the heavily masculine writing style of him and Hemingway, preferring the books that were never on the required reading list but have undoubtedly taught me so much...
