Romantic Fiction Writing - Qp1
- 1.No matter what other kinds of novels have a period of popularity, spies, adventure, science fiction or fantasy, there will always be a market for romance.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.The heart will grow old.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.In a romance, the love story is the ______ thing.
- A.
Last
- B.
Second
- C.
Foremost
- 4.All books in the same run will be around the same length, have roughly the same number of chapters, and of course have a happy ending.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.If you are going to write as Mills & Boon romance you need to print a large placard saying Emotion, Emotion, Emotion and pin it up in front of your typewriter or word processor.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.They say women will sometimes fall in love with the authority figure.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.If writing a medical romance, you do need to be an expert in medical matters.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.To write young adult romances you need to be able to look back to your own teenage days and yet interpret what you remember in terms of today's youngsters.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.______ are fun to write, for you can let your imagination run riot and tackle your romance with great zest and gusto.
- A.
Doctor/Nurse romances
- B.
Historical romances
- C.
Young adult romances
- D.
Mainstream romances
- 10._____ is the doyenne of romantic fiction, and she has a large following.
- A.
Toni Morrison
- B.
Jean Rhys
- C.
Barbara Cartland
- D.
Amy Dillwyn
- 11.The romance writing should engage all the senses, using colour, sound, scents, and textures to heighten the reader's sensitivity, thus paving the way for the love scenes.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.Some presentation principles that must be followed and are considered to be part of a writer's skill includes: (Select four)
- A.
Work should be well typed with double space between lines to provide an editor room to work.
- B.
Generous margins to provide an editor with ample room at the top, bottom, and both sides of a manuscript page are important.
- C.
All sentences and paragraphs must be indented one or two typing spaces consistently as a guide to an editor's production staff when to begin a new paragraph.
- D.
Do staple pages together as they have to be pulled apart for editing and other production purposes.
- E.
Mark all manuscript sheets - more … in the bottom right-hand corner, and place ends immediately under the last word in the manuscript.
- F.
Writers who understand production and who wish to impress editors with that knowledge never carry sentences or paragraphs over a page.
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