And I don't mean loans...
I set out to make my first romance novel 50k words, the minimum for the genre. The first draft was 42k. I've just finished the 4th draft and I'm up to 44k. I really wanted to market this as a novel and not a novella. Do you have any tricks you've used to make your novel longer? And how did you convince yourself it was needed? Right now the only additional scenes I can come up with are A) FMC runs into MMC's ex-wife, and tells her off, or B) MMC goes to pay respects to FMC's late husbands grave. Perhaps also a epilogue.
I set out to make my first romance novel 50k words, the minimum for the genre. The first draft was 42k. I've just finished the 4th draft and I'm up to 44k. I really wanted to market this as a novel and not a novella. Do you have any tricks you've used to make your novel longer? And how did you convince yourself it was needed? Right now the only additional scenes I can come up with are A) FMC runs into MMC's ex-wife, and tells her off, or B) MMC goes to pay respects to FMC's late husbands grave. Perhaps also a epilogue.
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