04-28-2003, 01:23 AM | #1 |
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Has anyone tried love stories in their works, yet? If so, feel free to talk about them here .
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04-28-2003, 02:50 PM | #2 |
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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.
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04-28-2003, 07:36 PM | #3 |
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Most love stories or so predictable. When I do include romance in my stories, it's non-conventonal.
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04-28-2003, 08:47 PM | #4 |
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I did once...I'd rather not talk about it.
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04-29-2003, 12:05 AM | #6 |
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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.
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04-29-2003, 08:40 AM | #7 |
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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.
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04-29-2003, 01:29 PM | #8 |
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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.
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04-29-2003, 01:59 PM | #9 |
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Too many love stories have been written. It's nearly impossible to find something new and refreshing.
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04-29-2003, 05:09 PM | #10 |
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Not much good with romance, my stories are too predictable, i think Jane Austen is too much of an influence...
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04-29-2003, 06:09 PM | #11 |
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Love stories, eh? That's something I only explore in non-fiction...
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04-29-2003, 07:13 PM | #12 |
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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 .
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 . 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. |
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04-29-2003, 08:51 PM | #14 |
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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.
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04-29-2003, 08:54 PM | #15 |
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... Unless you mean short scandalous sex stories, because I've written two of those.
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.
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04-30-2003, 09:40 PM | #16 |
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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...
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04-30-2003, 10:35 PM | #17 |
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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!).
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05-01-2003, 12:08 PM | #19 |
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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.
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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. Last edited by Lief Erikson : 05-01-2003 at 09:26 PM. |
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