Decide What to Keep: The Romance Novel Workbook

The ending is a promise. The middle is the pursuit.

Chemistry is the easy part. The hard part is the reason these two can't simply be together, and when that reason is flimsy, the middle drags. This workbook has you build that obstacle honestly and choose the ending before you draft. The romance and the world around it get braided into one outline, beat by beat, and the rest gets easier to place.

This is not a pep talk. It is a set of decisions in the order you need them: 245 pages of structured prompts, templates, and pressure tests that take a romance from first spark to a chapter-by-chapter outline you can draft from.

Inside:

• A romance contract: heat level and the ending promise, decided up front so they can't drift mid-book

• Six spine sentences the whole book answers to

• Full character templates for both leads, because the love interest is not a supporting character, plus chemistry pages for what exists only when they're in the same room

• A fifteen-trope menu with what each one promises the reader

• Eight romance beats braided with six plot anchors, so the love story and the life around it become one book instead of two

• Thirty-five chapter templates that track every step closer and apart

• A dark moment readers will believe: pressure tests for each lead, and for the couple itself

• Stuck? diagnostics for the four ways romance drafts stall