Romance

[Lief Erikson]

Has anyone tried love stories in their works, yet? If so, feel free to talk about them here :).

[Lalaith]

In my screen play there is a love story. It's not the main point of the story but still very important.
Hayden (my female character) and Joshua (my male character) are best friends and then they fall in love. it all ends with a happy end (was discussing the ending before).

In general love stories are very difficult, because most of the love stories are so not real.

[Elvellyn]

Most love stories or so predictable. When I do include romance in my stories, it's non-conventonal.

[Gwaimir Windgem]

I did once...I'd rather not talk about it. :rolleyes:

[Elvellyn]

Originally posted by Gwaimir Windgem
I did once...I'd rather not talk about it. :rolleyes:

Oh, I'm sorry. Did the mushy stuff get to ya? Was it just too much?:p

[Gwaimir Windgem]

No, it was just completely pointless, there was nothing really; it was just two starkly different (racially) characters whom I decided to use to bridge the gap.

[Lalaith]

Writing real love stories would be not really me. My next story will be kind of anti-love story. Begins with love, ends without. But mostly it's about violence.

[Silverstripe]

Well, I've tried a love story ... it just didn't work very well. I couldn't get the story to flow right, and it seemed too awkward.

[Lalaith]

Too many love stories have been written. It's nearly impossible to find something new and refreshing.

[Ianua]

Not much good with romance, my stories are too predictable, i think Jane Austen is too much of an influence...

[IronParrot]

Love stories, eh? That's something I only explore in non-fiction...

[Lief Erikson]

My first- no, second romance, was in my book Siegred's Nephew. It involved a girl who hardly spoke, and the main character was hopelessly in love with her for no reason :D.

I was really young when I wrote that story, but I've been looking for it occasionally since then just to read for comedy's sake. It wasn't meant to be a comedy, but I would laugh and laugh now if I could read that romance. I was very, very serious when I wrote it. Not to mention inspired. I'd gotten the ideas from a recent book series I'd read, "The Winds of Light". But mine was so stupid :D.

My more recent romance abilities I think are stronger than I used to be. In my book, I'm not focusing on romance at all, but slowly things are beginning to develop into that sort of a relationship between a couple of my characters.

In the book I write after The Uirlon Cord, which is its prequel, I'm going to have to write a romance in. I'm not worried though. The plot is good and I doubt that romance will be that hard, particularly as I have plenty of time in which to develop it.

[Lief Erikson]

Originally posted by IronParrot
Love stories, eh? That's something I only explore in non-fiction...
You mean you've never read Jane Austen's books?:eek: Ah . . . :( Poor you.

[Ninquelote]

I usually don't write love stories, because I myself do not understand love. I find that most people who love excessively end up hopeless and futureless, but those that never love end up lonely and depressed. I as a person am trying to find the middle path so I'll never walk on the others, but maybe I'll write a story about an extreme version of one of the two I've stated.

[Ninquelote]

... Unless you mean short scandalous sex stories, because I've written two of those. :rolleyes:

Of course I've only shared them with my friends, my closest online friends, and all the people who read them in the brief time they were on fanfiction.net.

Also my computer had it's hard drive wiped, with the two stories on them, so they are lost forever.

I could just say I never wrote them.

If indeed I did write them.

You'll never know.

[Indril Anarion]

I tried writing a romance...but it was just so corny like you could not imagine...I just stick to adventure/fantasy...Tolkien is a large influence on my work...I may include a short love scene, but not until the end and the battle is won...

[Starr Polish]

Being the teenager that I am, romance slips into a lot of my stories. Well, it's more LOVE than romance. In my fanfiction Stolen, about Theoden losing his wife, it's more about the bond and comradeship that he's lost than the romantic aspect of the relationship.

Love is often an underlying theme (or main theme) in things I write now, but it's not always of the romantic sense. Or, if it is romantic, there really isn't a whole lot of intensely sexual undertones. I would ahve to say that the first long story I wrote revolved around teenage romance during the Revolutionary War (hey, I was eleven!).

[IronParrot]

"You mean you've never read Jane Austen's books? Ah . . . Poor you."
I meant in terms of writing romances. For the record, I loved Pride and Prejudice.

[Snowdog]

I have written some love stories into a greater story. it has to be a secondary part of a story to truly work in my opinion.

[Lief Erikson]

Originally posted by Starr Polish
Being the teenager that I am, romance slips into a lot of my stories. Well, it's more LOVE than romance. In my fanfiction Stolen, about Theoden losing his wife, it's more about the bond and comradeship that he's lost than the romantic aspect of the relationship.

Love is often an underlying theme (or main theme) in things I write now, but it's not always of the romantic sense. Or, if it is romantic, there really isn't a whole lot of intensely sexual undertones. I would ahve to say that the first long story I wrote revolved around teenage romance during the Revolutionary War (hey, I was eleven!).
Sexual undertones certainly aren't a necessity for a romance to be called a romance and not a love story. As a matter of a fact, the romances I've read that are parts of various novels and have sexual undertones weren't strong.

The romance between Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy, on the other hand, was very successful while avoiding sexual undertones of any sort.

Simply pointing at definition :). Romance is a part of love, I think.

[Lalaith]

I'm gunning down romance
It never did a thing for me
But heartache and misery
Ain't nothing but a tragedy



just had to quote this

[Linaewen]

That's nice poetry. Why do I know so many people who suffer in love?:(

[Elfmaster XK]

I'm with Snowdog. I think for it to work, you have to be careful to add it into another story. Romance alone has been over worked probably. That's why in mine I have put the love story into the social and political aspects of the story. The romance works around the more important issues. And that's the way I find it works. Otherwise it's always so predictable. He meets her. They fall in love. Something goes wrong/someone else comes onto the scene. They have a fight, or lose each other, or think they don't love each other. They realise the truth. They defeat the obstacle and live happily ever after. Blergh. :rolleyes:

[Lief Erikson]

Some might consider that drama, and it is if it's done properly. Even though that formula is classic, stereotype. Whether that's bad or not is another matter- it depends on how it's done.

[Elfmaster XK]

No, I meant that was what happens in all love stories. Not that's what I am writing. I write angsty things that go all wrong. I guess classic love stories can work if done well, but there are so many romance books. I'm pretty sure it's difficult to find something unique.

[frodosgirlfriend]

I love writing romance and reading about it. In one of my stories I've got two people that hate each other then they fall madly, deeply, in love then one of them dies the other person goes into deep depression so they kill themselves and then it turns out that the other person never really died and was just really wounded so then they go into depression and then it's the end.
Then in another story I have an immortal in love with a 12 year old girl who thinks of him as a father, kind of twisted when he's smelling her hair and kissing her neck.

[Nariel]

you know, my fave romance was one where Meika (main character) is married to Nic but he gets killed and she's really bummed out but then she and Leo (a complete stranger) go to find her birth mother (whom they don't know is dead) and they sort of. hmm... comfort each other since like everyone they know is dying and then they realise that they were created in the same gene lab (although they're not related) and then they kind of split up but remain in contact... it's like "I'm sad, you're sad, we comforted each other and maybe went a little too far but we don't really have any feelings for each other so crap now what do we do?"

It's a LOT more complicated than that. But I never have those sappy romances in my books.

[Nimbrennil]

I've never tried to write a romance... I personally enjoy writing adventure. But I like romance books: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Pride and Prejudice by You-Know-Who, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, that sort of this... mostly classics, I guess... but sometimes I like new romances... *shrug*

--Nimbrennil