I decided to study the romance novels of Grace Livingston Hill ( 1865-1947) . She has written at least 93 books. I also used GLH for my senior project at Oral Roberts University. I consider her the great great grandmother of inspirational romance novels. She basically paved the way for Janette Oke and Karen Kingsbury. I talked about her influence in my senior paper.
For the next several weeks, I would like to use her as an example to fix the pitfalls in my own writing. Those pitfalls would be too many characters in the first few pages of my manuscript. I recently finished reading the White Lady. GLH basically makes sure to introduce at least the main character Constance Weatherill. We learn that Constance is about to lose 5,000 dollars of her inheritance. So, she must find a way to solve her problem. In terms , GLH characters she keeps it simple for the reader. I realized I haven't done such a great job at that:( I've gotten so involved with having so many characters I lose sight of my plot. Okay, I am going back to GLH. For the White Lady, she had a nine characters. When she did add a character, it had to have significance to the plot. She didn't add a character, just because she loved how it sounded. When she does finally introduce the potential love interest--John Endicott--until Chapter 9.
In the next blog, I will analyze her book Ariel Custer for her character introduction.
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