I mostly just want to know what one can get away with. i.e. Can I have a guy and a girl in the same story and not have them fall in love? Or not fall in love in a way that it's obvious they're in love? I don't want to end up having my characters focus on their feelings for the majority of the story, as that's always been a big annoyance for me when it comes to romance in fiction. Not to say there's anything wrong with it, it's just not my thing.
More than that, though, it's not something I want to write, especially when there's so much else going on around the characters. I've read quite a few stories where it seems like the world revolves around the two character's relationships, and most of the time it drive me nuts because the world's about to end and character A is pining over why character B refuses to express their love. And if they would just stop pining, they could save the world already.
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Date: 2008-11-27 11:54 pm (UTC)From:More than that, though, it's not something I want to write, especially when there's so much else going on around the characters. I've read quite a few stories where it seems like the world revolves around the two character's relationships, and most of the time it drive me nuts because the world's about to end and character A is pining over why character B refuses to express their love. And if they would just stop pining, they could save the world already.