Welcome Romance Writers!
We look forward to meeting you!
LARA RWA meetings are held via Zoom until we are cleared by the State of California for group gatherings. All info here.
Visitors and Guests: your first meeting is free!

LARA Mission Statement
The purpose of LARA is to promote excellence in romantic fiction, to help our writers enhance their knowledge and establish career goals, and to provide continuing support and encouragement for our members through all levels of their careers.

Upcoming Meetings
- May 15, 2022
- June 26, 2022
- July 17, 2022
- August 21, 2022
- September 18, 2022
- October 16, 2022
- November 20, 2022
- December 18, 2022
- March 20, 2022
- April 24, 2022
May 15, 2022
Pre-Meeting: Virtual Check-In
Speaker: Martha Alderson
Topic: Start Plotting Your Novel from the End
From my experience writing fiction and helping writers with plot, I’ve found that we often obsess over the beginning of our stories, developing detailed backstories and writing, revising and rewriting – and rightly so. Beginnings hook readers. At the same time, endings create fans, though often writers neglect to give their endings the same sort of time and attention either by stalling out before ever reaching the end or by slapping on an ending with the hope it works.
For now, forget the beginning of your story and turn your focus to the end. This approach of plotting from the end allows you to visualize the whole of your story rather than simply juggle a loose collection of its parts or scenes.
Whether you have a firm grasp of what happens at the end of your story to satisfy both the inner plot and the outer plot or simply a vague idea, come prepared to try out some new strategies.
You’ll be given time to experiment with some the foundational skills needed to:
• preform a task analysis of your outer plot
• deconstruct your main characters to satisfy the inner plot
