Snarktheater’s NaNoWriMo Challenge, Day 7:
Does romance play a major part in your story? If so, between whom? If not, do you have any specific reason why?
As I’ve gotten older, romance has started to play smaller roles in my stories. My main series easily has the most of it, and the romance tends to twine with the general theme of things.
Summer and Aaron’s romance is a bit different than I tend to write. They’re already a developed couple by the time the story begins; there’s no focus on a relationship beginning, it’s about one ending.
What’s more is that the both of them have romantic personality types. They see themselves as destined lovers, and so it gets kinda awkward for Summer when she begins to realize she doesn’t love him anymore like that. And she doesn’t know how to break it to him, either, because that stuff is hard and emotional and there’s no big “wrong” that either of them made.
This sets up a lot of talk about soul mates in the main series as there is Aaron, who learns to take a different approach to love and relationships, and Marcus, who emotionally (and, technically, physically) abuses in the name of destined love.
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