Sharon shifts her position on the sofa, recrossing her black-booted legs, beneath her floaty purple skirt. You can feel the full force of the energy that drives someone to write nearly all day every weekday in her topsy-turvy office upstairs. But life's not always been pounding hearts and flouncing heroines. When I'm writing, I become the heroine. It's something you just put everything into so that it's a well-written piece.
Most people know what's going to happen.
The skill is creating an incredible situation and making it believable and drawing the reader into the story and making her want to see what the resolution is. You're drawing the reader into the love story so that she's living it vicariously. It's that glorious feeling of being totally in love, when you can't eat, can't sleep properly and you can't keep your hands off the person. Mills and Boon reflects the mood of the time quite subtly. What I wanted is this overwhelming thing, so you behave in a way you wouldn't want your daughter to behave.