June 30, 2017 I submitted under 6,000 words of my short contemporary romance book with the working title, The Cattle Barron’s Redemption, to Pages From The Heart Contest. I don’t expect to win. All I want are the comments on the work I submitted. I’ll know something in late September…I think.
In the meantime, I continue to work on the story. I know there are problems with it such as not enough internal dialogue. Still I submitted the story to find other areas that need improvement.
I think too that the conflicts need work so they are more intense. Romance novels are notorious for pressing the issue of conflict. I think readers can grasp subtleties, but that is not what I’m seeing in my reading of published writers works. They keep hammering away in different language as to what the central problem is with their characters. Ugh!
Pages From The Heart Contest
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