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Take your time and edge your way into it. Please don’t ever, ever, try the whole insta-romance thing because I’m positive that no one likes those.

I’d say you and your characters should know each other for at least a couple of weeks before any sort of romance ensues. But boy, do I wish I put more time into this because I didn’t realize it’d be an important thread throughout the series. I am a proud Pantser (still am) and really enjoy making things up as I go. If you don’t know your characters, if you barely know your plot, you’re going to have a romantic flop.īack when I was writing the first novel to my trilogy, I had no idea what I was doing. Of course I use more interesting language while describing that, but shall I keep that private? So with this totally diverse following of about twenty people, I was not sure how you guys would hold up with this topic.īut I’m doing it now because write now, regret later. As shown above, some people are gaga for it, others could do with out and some people just couldn’t give a hang. I’ve also been avoiding this topic because a lot of people have different opinions on romance. Because that’s how all romances are supposed to be. Collecting all of this data has helped me dabble in the area and with some practice, I’ve finally succeeded in the art. I’d like to say that I’m good at writing romance…Įven though I know absolutely nothing about romance (jesus, I’m a single, scaly alien who sits in her lair all day…) I do know a lot about character relations and observations. You know, it really depends… Some people love romance, some people hate it… Me personally, I enjoy a good romance… You know, a strong, cute one’s always nice… I do actually have a romantic subplot in all of my books, as of now… Because what is life without a little romance anyway? It’s a natural thing that shows up in most YA novels and since I write YA and hate being creative, I added one in in every single one of my projects. Or lastly, they could have a reaction like this: So people either have these three reactions when they think about romance: I’ve been avoiding the hell out of it, and only for one reason. People of Earth, I do this a lot, and so maybe I should create a separate segment for this particular thing, but anyway, I have another confession for you.