Writing a novel is really like putting a puzzle together. Characters, plot, setting, theme, dialogue, emotion. Or perhaps it’s more like cooking a stew.
But how does it all actually come together? After all, it’s not as simple as throwing a bunch of random characters into a pot, adding in some stuff that happens, followed by a setting, a theme, and so forth, and expect it to work. It’s a little — ok, quite a bit — more involved than that. I’m going to explain exactly how I came up with the stew of my December romance release, called “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me”.