[header] How to write romance novels [title] Use a real life romantic experience as inspiration. [step] Draw from your own romantic experiences in life and adapt them for your novel. Fictionalize a chance encounter you had on vacation or a special moment you experienced with your partner. 
Use past romantic relationships as raw material for your novel. [substeps] For example, you may take a passionate but doomed relationship in your past and change around real life names to fictionalize it.