Allaboutlove offers a range of online romantic fiction writing courses. We provide everything from foundation writing skills to advanced support while you write a complete novel.
Course modules are intended to take between two and five hours a week to complete. In this way, we hope our courses will suit any schedule and all lifestyles. The provocative and inspiring introductory course is completely free. Our basic and advanced courses are interactive, providing students with a constant flow of feedback and advice.
Description:
This course is FREE. Jump right in and start today. Romance isn't just about heroines and heroes. It's about using the power of your unique voice to make your reader believe in the world you create for them.
A Preparation For Writing Romance is designed so that you'll have fun trying a number of writing drills, while equipping yourself with skills. The exercises will free your inner writer, develop confidence, banish self-conscious writing and grow your own writer's voice.
Course 2: A basic guide to writing romantic fiction
Description:
Learn the skills you need to write romantic fiction.
• Creating believable characters
• Revealing your characters’ pasts
• Writing authentic dialogue
• Building a story, with conflict and romance
• Maintaining suspense
• Writing a good climax and resolution, while keeping the tension taut
• Structuring your story, keeping up the pace
• Writing love scenes
• Choosing the best possible viewpoint.
• Creating a world for your characters to live in
Course 3: a Basic Guide to Writing Lesbian Romantic Fiction
Description:
Learn the skills you need to write romantic fiction geared specifically to lesbian love stories.
• Creating believable characters
• Revealing your characters’ pasts
• Writing authentic dialogue.
• Building a story, with conflict and romance
• Maintaining suspense.
• Writing a good climax and resolution, while keeping the tension taut
• Structuring your story, keeping up the pace
• Writing love scenes
• Choosing the best possible viewpoint
• Creating a world for your characters to live in
Description:
This step by step guide to writing romantic fiction will enable you to complete a 50 000 word novel in six months.
Building on the Basic Guide, this programme runs you through the practical application of your skills. We will guide and support you as you turn your idea into a novel. Modules are once a week while you’re in the planning phase. Once you’re writing, you will receive a module every two to three weeks, to give you enough writing time.
Customer Reviews:
The online course is wonderful because you can work through it at your own pace, and often at odd hours—I sometimes worked on exercises in between stories for my ‘real’ job, or late at night when I couldn’t sleep. You can log on at 2am or 2pm, and the course is there, no jacket required. You can also have a couple of stabs at the exercises before submitting them. You can cut and add and refine things if you so desire, or you can simply dash something off and submit it straight away. The flexibility really appealed to me. I found that I got fantastically constructive feedback from Richard and Jo-Anne. It’s so rare that people who are good at what they do are prepared to share their expertise in this way. Feedback is always honest, but kind, which leaves you feeling hopeful and more inspired to keep on keeping on. Which is just the kind of inspiration I need. Richard and Jo-Anne are great teachers and mentors. Mandy, Journalist
