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b'Sarah Eden and Robison Wells join Dan and Howard at LTUE to talk about writing romance. Sarah writes in the romance genre, but we\'re not focusing on the genre -- we\'re talking about writing romance within the context of whatever else we might happen to be putting on the page.
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\\nWe lead with how to do it wrong, because nothing is as much fun to talk about as bad romance. It\'s also educational.
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\\nMore importantly (and more usefully) we talk about formulas for doing romance correctly. One of the most practical is to pair characters up by finding emotional needs that these characters can meet for each other. We look at examples from each of our work: Sarah\'s The Kiss of a Stranger, Dan\'s I Don\'t Want To Kill You, Howard\'s The Sharp End of the Stick, and Rob\'s Variant.
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\\nAudiobook Pick-of-the-Week: I Don\'t Want To Kill You, by Dan Wells, narrated by Kirby Heyborne. It\'s true, this book has some great romance in it. Also, murder.
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\\nWriting Prompt: Create a character, and then create a complementary character who both meets a need and provides unwelcome challenge.
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\\nEverybody\'s Lisp: Brought to you by the noise reduction software we used. Sorry about that. It won\'t happen again.
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\\nThe Bonus Game: Bad Romance! Enjoy!
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