Cynthia Harrison

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Tag: Faye Hughes

  • The “Almost” Scene

    Today I’m working on a long scene that ups the sexual tension between my characters. Anybody who reads romance knows that it’s a tightrope walk between conflict and attraction. Unless the author is really really good, I almost never believe it when two characters are bickering enemies in one paragraph and falling into bed the next. Coming together (pun…

  • Where to Start?

    My critique group has seen the first two scenes of my WIP. I wrote them as alternate first scenes, not sure which to open with. CPs said open with the first one. Craig and Hughes say the second. Ch. 9 in The Everything Guide to Writing a Romance Novel, “Why First Impressions Count” convinced me that for this…