The Romance Writers' Phrase Book

By Jean Kent and Jean Kent

Book Overview

Have you ever had your romance manuscript rejected because it lacked romantic tension? Now there's The Romance Writer's Phrase Book , the first word book designed especially for romance writers everywhere. The essential source book for every romantic novelist, this helpful guide contains over 3,000 descriptive tags all arranged for quick, easy reference. Now you too can add life and breath to any romantic novel. The Romantic Writer's Phrase Book neatly organizes these tags into fifty easy-to-use categories, including: physical description, body movements, facial expressions, eyes, voices, emotions, and sex. Guaranteed to stimulate the imagination and make your manuscript a resounding success.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399510028
• ISBN13: 9780399510021
• Release Date: March 1984
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

love this for what it is

Okay, I know that there is a lot of bad romance writing out there full of embarrassingly melodramatic descriptions and cheesy metaphors. And this book has plenty of silly phrases that I would NEVER use; but it also has a lot of wonderful, inventive phrases and a rich vocabulary. The book is an enormously helpful tool, if you give it the proper chance, and appreciate it for what it is. I don't use it to copy the phrases. I use it to spark my own imagination, to help me come up with my own phrases. So often only cliches come to mind when I try to write a sex scene, or even a passionate kiss. This phrasebook offers such a wonderful variety of descriptions for that kind of thing. It reminds me that the English language is much more interesting than my day to day vocabulary. I might use a verb from one phrase, combine it with a noun on the next page, then maybe add a cool metaphor of my own that I wouldn't have thought of if I hadn't been inspired by something from the phrase book. I highly recommend this book to writers of fiction, whatever the genre. Let it assist you, perhaps even inspire you . . . and feel free to laugh at all the silly stuff. :)

A wonderful resource!

This book is a wonderful resource, not only for romance writers, but for creative writers in general. Kent and Shelton provide phrases that are springboards for original ideas by the writer. The phrases are vivid and have saved me a lot of time I would have spent looking for the right phrase in a thesaurus.

This book is wonderful!

As a novice romance writer, this book has helped me tremendously with dialogue. I suggest any beginning writer invest in this literary wonder!

Very helpful tool to the aspiring romance writer.

I have found this little book to be very helpful when my mind draws a blank on just the right phrase needed for a scene. By reading the phrases in the book so many more come to mind. I believe this is just what it was intended for. It is also very well laid out. I recommend it to anyone just starting out in the romance genre.