Class Description
There’s nothing like your heart swelling as you read a well-written romance. Except maybe your heart swelling as you write one! No matter what stage of the novel writing process you’re in—a tiny idea to a third draft—we’re going to make sure your romance book has a beating heart. True romance is a craft. It’s smart, complex, palpable, and reflective in some way. Each week, we will analyze a device from one of Emily Henry’s bestselling romance novels. As a group, we’ll work on in-class exercises and generative writing prompts to incorporate each device into our own project.
This class will equip you with the tools you’ll need for ideation, planning, and drafting. You will learn to develop characters, utilize tropes, find stakes, and position your novel for agents. Whether you’re writing romantasy, contemporary, speculative, or any other category of romance, by the end of this course you will have an outline for your novel, a plan to write it, and a deep understanding of the romance genre.
Writing Roadmap: We've created a simple, goal-based writing roadmap to help you find the perfect GrubStreet course for your writing needs.
Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.
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This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. After registering, a yellow Resources tab will appear in this section containing a link to join class. Please note that you will need to be logged into view the Resources tab.
Zoom Participation:
In our experience, the intimate nature of a writing workshop benefits from on-camera participation. Students are of course welcome to turn their camera off whenever they need to, but it is a community norm for cameras to be on most of the time. You can learn more about using Zoom here.
Zoom Accessibility:
You can enable closed captioning at any time during the meeting by clicking the CC button at the bottom of the screen. If you'd like to access the transcript after class, please make sure to let your instructor ahead of time that you'd like a copy.