Category Archives: On Writing Romance

Come to Your Senses: The Art of Using the Sense of Smell in Romantic Writing

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Jenna Jaxon

Romance writers should always use all five senses into their writing.  This strategy will put our readers into the virtual bodies of our heroes and heroines by showing how those characters are feeling.  Most romance readers want to vicariously experience … Continue reading →

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Reviewed by Jenna: “Here’s Looking at You” with “A Look of Love”

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Jenna Jaxon

Have you ever seen in another’s eyes the look that says, without words, you are the center of someone’s universe? That is the look Noelle expects to find, in Darlene Panzera’s sweet romantic short story A Look of Love. When … Continue reading →

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Almost Heaven: Writer’s Retreat

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Jenna Jaxon

As I’ve mentioned recently, I attended a writer’s retreat two weekends ago hosted by my local RWA chapter.  This is my first year with the chapter and my first retreat with them, my first writer’s retreat ever, in fact.  So … Continue reading →

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First Review: Heart of Deception

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Jenna Jaxon

Good things come unexpectedly sometimes.  Really good things almost never come, expected or unexpected.  Except last week it did, though I wasn’t aware of it until yesterday. Dawn Luedecke, a reviewer for the Atlantic City Examiner, an online newspaper, has … Continue reading →

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Love at First Sight or Chemical Romance?

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Jenna Jaxon

Serendipity is an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.  This post owes it’s existence to that aptitude.  While I was researching the Art of the Sense of Hearing in Writing Romance, I ran across an amazing article by James … Continue reading →

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