Interesting question and although I shall say give you my best answer, I must add that I have never written a romance novel (though have written a few non-fiction books on Amazon). Yet I shall give you my best perspective.

In writing a romance novel, one thing that you would want to make sure is that your novel flows smoothly. By this I mean characters come and go as the story depicts as well as the story has a sequence of some sort.

An example of these things not being met would be a story where one of the characters who has a part to play in the plot just disappears midway through. Or if half way through the story, you start writing about something else occurring. Such flaws would just confuse the reader as to what is happening.

Whilst you may wish to make notes beforehand to make sure such events don't happen, in reality you can probably remember all the characters, etc. Unless of course your book was going to be as popular as the next Lord Of The Rings novels!

On completion of your book, do expect to do spelling corrections and going back a few times to do redrafts. This is something which all authors have to do. Also expect to go through your book fixing grammar and incorrect spellings.

Finally the last thing to expect is a long slog of writing your book until it is done. This will take time and can get quite boring at times. Yet remember how you feel once the book is complete!

One way I have found to keep myself motivated when writing is to break the work down into individual chapters and look at each chapter like you are writing an essay. For once you have 10-15+ chapters, you will have enough for a novel.

Good luck with your venture and hope it one day is sold on the bookshelves of bookstores around the world.

If you would like some more motivational advice on writing your novel, feel free to give me a call.