Timeline for How do I write romance if I've never been in love?
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| Dec 28, 2019 at 10:20 | comment | added | Weckar E. | "Write what you know" is often miscontextualized. It does not just talk about personal experience; rather than to do your damn research. | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 18:31 | comment | added | V2Blast | @ColumbiasaysReinstateMonica: That may be, but is it because Arthur C. Clarke was never in love? Or just because he's bad at writing romance scenes? I'm not saying romance writing is easy, just that it's not necessarily based on portraying things realistically. | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 15:35 | comment | added | Robert Columbia | @V2Blast true, but IME some of the worst writing I have ever seen is bad romance. Arthur C. Clarke was usually a very good writer, but his love scenes were worse than the Star Wars prequels. | |
| Dec 24, 2019 at 9:18 | history | edited | motosubatsu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 24, 2019 at 4:49 | comment | added | V2Blast | It's also worth noting that the romance genre in particular is not necessarily popular because of its realism - arguably, some/much of the appeal is the lack of realism involved. So having been in love yourself won't necessarily give you many insights into what romance readers like. | |
| Dec 23, 2019 at 9:56 | history | answered | motosubatsu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |