Weave holidays into your romance novels
Weaving a holiday or celebration into your romance novel adds a whole new layer to your narrative. Think of the holiday or celebration as another character who helps move the story forward and sets the stage for emotional response and character transformation. Holidays/Celebrations can be cathartic for your characters and actively influence their behaviors. Holiday memories and traditions evoke emotions that will influence your characters response, both positive and negative. Love, hate, indifference, joy, sorrow, excitement all are emotions that can enhance your narrative and add depth to your story. Create holidays situations and events that will strength the complexity of the story line and keep the reader totally engaged. The trick is to let the holiday/celebration enhance the readers’ experience and seamlessly become part of the story. This is where I can help you create the magic within your story. Ready to start?
Creating the Magic for your Novel.
Holiday Magic
This coaching package will teach you to weave the holiday into your story. We will brainstorm ideas and situations around the traditions of the celebration you have chosen to include in your book. We will complete an useable outline that shows the “what & where” of holiday details that you want to incorporate within the framework of your novel. You will come a way with an understanding of how the holiday can enhance your story and the arc and development of your main characters.
Holiday Magic Includes:
30-minute coffee chat (virtually) with me. This is our time to get to know a bit about each other and discuss our work together.
A holiday theme worksheet with questions designed to help you build the elements of the holiday into your story. One week completion time.
One hour coaching call to discuss your answers and my feedback.
Complete an exercise to incorporate the situations, traditions and feelings of the holiday into a useable outline for your story. One week completion time.
One hour coaching call to discuss next steps.
Written follow-up will be provided from our call.
Celebrate Love!
Time Commitment: One Month
Investment: $425.00
If you decide to continue 1:1 coaching with me you will receive a 10% discount
30-minute coffee chat (virtually) with me. This is our time to get to know a bit about each other and get those “first date” jitters out of the way! I take my coffee with flavored creamer (flavor changes with the seasons, of course!).
A workbook for you to complete and receive my editorial comments on your answers. You will have ten days to complete the workbook. Comments and feedback from me within one week. Comments will be on the worksheets so you will have easy access.
One hour coaching call to discuss your answers and my feedback.
A holiday theme worksheet with questions designed to help you build the elements of the holiday into your story. One week completion time.
One hour coaching call to discuss next steps and plan an actionable strategy for the book.
Written follow-up will be provided from our call.
Time Commitment: One Month
Investment: $600.00
First Date Package
By the end of the First Date, you will understand why you are writing this book which leads to the point or theme of the story; develop the character of your main protagonist and their love interest and understand their arc of change - that arc will be supported by the rest of the story. You’ll understand what the characters want most and why, and gain clarity on what is at stake for each of them. You will determine how to include the aspects of the holiday into the story to enhance the romantic elements. If you are a first-time novelist or just beginning a new story this First date will help you figure out your relationship with your book.