Marie Alice Writes & Reads

Diary of a writing project. Day 40: The art of clichés

In a scene, I got the love interest bump into the main character in a mall.
Literally.
Bump! Aouch! You!?

Word count goal for this week: 40 000 words
Word count so far: 23 175

In a scene, I got the love interest bump into the main character in a mall. Literally. Bump! Aouch! You!?

Agreed, the mall in question, a miserable looking old fashion place far from their hometown, is ( of course! ) the last place you could expect to see both of them.
I am embracing this cliché. It works.
But will the beta-readers, better yet the actual readers, will dig it?

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Diary of a writing project. Day 39: the first act key points

This week word count goal: 32 500 words
Word count goal so far: 22 442 words

And suddenly, I had to remind myself I was also writing a Romance. Sort of. This book is walking on many genres lines.
While I find it really fun to play around with the rules within the genres, I still need to focus on plot points.

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Writing a novel: Bestsellers

Nope, not a post on how to write bestsellers!

That post is about:

trying to define what is a bestseller, and
what is the difference between a bestseller and a novel that sells well?

I hope it can help clarify the idea and give a little positive boost to the writers who needs it (including your’s truly).

Fair warning, I’m going a bit academic on this particular topic, which I studied in university (there’s no college in my francophone bubble; we go from elementary school, to high school, to Cegep, to University and to being broke for twenty years).

So, get comfy !

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