Instant-Love Novelette Builder

This guide will help you plot your own instant-love novelette from beginning to end, and you can reuse it multiple times. It is designed to give you 4 chapters plus an epilogue and yield a word count of 9-10,000 words, with one-three sex scenes.

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This style is different from the instant-love Alpha/Virgin novella builder in length and tone. Popular authors of this style are Hope Ford, Julia Nash, and Mandy Morgan. You want your page count to be between…

This is the meet-cute chapter. I like to start with his POV, because his reaction is so life-altering. She’s suddenly THE ONE, here in front of him, and nothing will keep him from being with her. This is where the reader gets to see her through his eyes, so pay special attention to the details—how she looks, how his heart is racing, the color of her eyes, the smells and sounds. He instantly feels protective of her. If she’s curvy, he loves her curves.

The typical setup is she has a problem, and he’s there to solve it for her. It can be something small, like a flat tire, or something more life-altering, like she’s about to be evicted. It should be a problem he can help with pretty easily, even if it’s not an easy problem, both because he’s a capable alpha male, and also because you only have 9-10,000 words to tell the story.

The solution he offer…