All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
From Nicholas Sparks
If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.
Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible.
I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.
I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.
I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.
To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.
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