Romance readers are
some of the most intelligent people
on the planet.
They don’t watch TV for fun.
They read.
Yet the bulk of my revisions
center around simplifying the story,
making sentences shorter,
concepts smaller,
eliminate subplots and extra characters,
so readers focus
on what I feel is important.
One of the tricks I use
is the rule of seven.
No sentence is more than seven words long.
No paragraph is more than seven lines long.
This isn’t easy to do
but it is worth it.
Readers focus on each sentence,
on each paragraph.
If I do this with my stories,
stories readers are PAYING to read,
you should do that with your copy.
Make your copy as simple as possible.