by Holland Rae | Mar 19, 2018 | Characters, Heroines, Musings, My Books, Romance Novels, Women
Okay, I’ll cop to it – I’ve used this title before. But that’s only because it’s so true. (And so good!) It also really fits into this week’s blog topic – a person who inspires me. See, I’ve been really lucky. No one is going to say that being a writer is easy. Even...
by Holland Rae | Feb 26, 2018 | Characters, Heroines, Humor, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Reading, Research, Romance Novels
While I’m not the type of writer to shy away from explicit heat or overt discussions of sex and eroticism in my stories, most of the books written under my pen name Holland Rae fall shy of being labeled “erotic romance.” The distinction is arbitrary. What...
by Holland Rae | Feb 19, 2018 | Characters, Industry, Inspiration, Musings, Reading, Research
Everyone knows that characters drive story. Our heroes and heroines and anti-heroes and comic reliefs give us a human or anthropomorphized experience. Sometimes the story is exciting– action, adventure, romance. Sometimes it is subtle and nuanced– family drama,...
by Holland Rae | Feb 12, 2018 | Editing, Industry, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Romance Novels, Uncategorized, Women's Rights
I hate writing short. In fact, the idea of writing a short story is scarier to me than the concept of a full-length novel. I’m an overwriter with a tendency to push too-big concepts and themes into small spaces, far better suited to twice the word count. While I’ve...
by Holland Rae | Jan 29, 2018 | Characters, Editing, Historical, Industry, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Reading, Research, Romance Novels, Series, Uncategorized
I used to think I could research my books as I went. I used to delve into plot and character development and setting and think I’ll get to that later. I used to believe that research was secondary, tertiary even, to the fundamentals of writing a story. I used to be...
