Prose from the Pros #3: Stephanie Meyer
fanpop.com When you write you want to grab and hold your reader’s attention. How can you accomplish this? Maybe add a romance. Just about every novel contains a love story. Make the romance between two teenagers and you might be on to something. The unknown territory and innocence of young love creates a feeling empathized by all readers. Intensify the attraction by adding complications of unrequited love and life or death situations. Throw in a few supernatural beings (i.e., vampires, shape-shifters and human/vampire hybrids) for a delicious twist and you have Stephanie Meyer’s best-selling Breaking Dawn , the fourth and last novel of the YA series, Twilight . Are we really suckers for love? No. Well, maybe. But you can attribute the novel’s bewitching power to conflict . The drama provides the driving force. As a reader you find yourself unable to stop reading in hopes o...