Nicholas Sparks, the prolific and popular novelist behind “The Notebook” and many other titles, outlined his rules for writing compelling romance stories during his appearance Thursday at ...

But the story definitely left its imprint on the fiction I’d grow up to write: high-stakes, ultra–dramatic, live-or-die, unreasonably romantic love stories.

Nicholas Sparks, the prolific and popular novelist behind “The Notebook” and many other titles, outlined his rules for writing compelling romance stories during his appearance Thursday at ...