Romantic Fiction Writing - Qp5
15 Questions
| Total Attempts: 68
Questions and Answers
- 1.A romance should appeal to the senses, and so you should aim to engage all the senses in your writing.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.As the excitement rises, let you sentences become longer.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.Once the tense situation is over you can relax so the sentences can flow and become shorter.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.Emotion is the main ingredient in a romance. However, it is the way your portray it that is important.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.All romantic novels feature explicit sex.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Just because you are writing about sex does not mean you should be deadly serious about it.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.The conflict should continue in some form right until the end so the reader does not know until the last that there is going to be a happy ending.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.At last you come to a point where you have finished your book. Put it away and forget about it for a few weeks.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.When you feel that the balance is right, examine the writing closely. Here are a few things to look for: (Select four)
- A.
Go through, remove any word that are not necessary, particularly, examining adjective and adverbs.
- B.
Examine the dialect
- C.
Cut out any clichés or any hackneyed phrases and beware of copying ones you have seen many times in other romances.
- D.
Avoid repeating settings too often.
- E.
Avoid qualifying words
- F.
Avoid vague words such as nice and pretty.
- 10.The use of punctuation can become time consuming and in turn costly for an editor and the production team.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.Colons and Semi-Colons should be used as much as possible.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.Overuse of dashes is considered to be sloppy writing and they should not be used where full stops are adequate.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.The hyphen need not, as a rule, be used to join an adverb to the adjective which it qualifies as in a beautifully furnished house, a well calculated scheme.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.Beware of publishers who say your book is wonderful, but want you to pay to have it printed. This is Vanity Publishing and should be avoided in most instances.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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Sample QuestionWith a romance the reader is fairly certain that everything is going to end happily, but it’s what happens along the way that makes, or breaks, the story.
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Sample QuestionNo matter how good your plot may be, it will be wasted until you have good, strong, believable character.
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