Ask me why I'm SO nice 😅🛡️

Published 3 months ago • 1 min read • Podcasts

Hi Reader!

I got more personal in this episode than I usually do on the podcast.

Because the concept I'm teaching you — the four types of protective behavior your romance characters use — is something I have lived. Not just studied.

I grew up shy. Thin-skinned. Easy to embarrass. 😅

And somewhere along the way, I figured out that if I was warm enough and friendly enough and over-delivered on everything, people treated me better. I felt safer.

That protection became part of who I am. (But it started as survival.)

Your heroes do this too. 🖱️👇

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This one's a little longer than usual—around 33 minutes—because I walk you through the four different ways our heroes protect themselves and how this behavior brings life and depth to your story's plot.

Because readers can feel when a hero's personality is just a performance, even when your writing is good. ❣️

I also share an example from a published romance book (Adriana Locke's Fraud) that will make you think differently about heroes with "big" personalities. 💡

Plus, as usual, there's an exercise at the end that you can do to improve your own scenes today.

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Listen here!

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Sue Brown-Moore

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