Creating Romantic Characters

4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars | 9 ratings

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Last update: 02-04-2025


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No matter how exciting the plot, it's the people in a story who make it memorable. The techniques and examples in Creating Romantic Characters will help you produce provocative, exciting, forceful characters with dynamic stories. Whether you're writing romance novels, stories which include romantic relationships, or general fiction, this book will help you create charactes who are romantic and heroic, adventurous and mysterious - larger than life.

Leigh Michaels is the author of more than 100 books including contemporary and historical romances. More than 35 million copies of her books have been printed in 25 languages and more than 120 countries. A six-time finalist in the Romance Writers of America RITA contest, she is also the author of On Writing Romance and teaches romance writing at Gotham Writers Workshop.


Top reviews from the United States

  • Lila J. Guerrero
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book
    Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2013
    This book has been very helpful for me in writing my novel. This information is presented in very clear terms and is easy to understand.
  • Edie
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Must For Budding Romance Writers
    Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2012
    About five or six years ago I took an online fiction course or two from Leigh Michaels. This book was one that was used in the course. Later I got away from fiction and gave my books away. Now, I'm back to writing fiction and purchased this book again so that I could rebuild my library. I just finished reading it again, and I recall why I thought this was one of the best books on the topic.

    Building characters is one of the most difficult for me to do although I also understand how important it is to a story. Leigh is adept at explaining how to write characterizations by using real-life romance books, teaser questions that make us think about the characters we are creating, and provides a valuable characterization worksheet.

    I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in fiction writing or creating better characters if that is a weak area in your writing.

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