Blog Post 8

1) Romance Novel by Wikipedia:  Serves as a starting point for my wiki article. It has all the basic components in which someone would need to understand what makes a novel, "Romantic Fiction." Also it contains the other types of classifications a novel could be.

2) Women's Fiction vs. Romance: A Tale of Two Genres by Lisa Craig: This article specifies the difference between Women's Fiction and Romantic Fiction, which gives readers the correct information when classifying what they are reading. When reading Romantic Fiction novels, there is a lot of other novels that many people think could be classified in that same category as well. Many women read a lot of romance novels, so that could be what is confusing the genres with one another.

3) How to Write a Romance Novel: The Keys to Conflict by Jennifer Lawler: This shows other people how to keep their audiences involved and entertained rather than writing a romance novel in a way that wouldn’t.

4) THE ROMANTIC NOVEL, ROMANTICISM, AND WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte: This article demonstrates the controversy over how realism is incooperated into a novel and discusses how that Wuthering Heights exemplifies that throughout the novel. It also discusses the protagonists and other factors that go into a romantic novel not only in general but also in Wuthering Heights.

5) What Makes a Romance? Seven Tips. By Shannon Donnely: This article again exemplifies other things that can better someone at distinguishing a romance novel and writing one too.