Writing tips?
Hiii, so, I'm currently writing a book, and it's supposed to be in the romance genre. However, I'm not quite sure how to write a captivating beginning, and whether the person the main character will later fall in love with should appear at the beginning… I also think it's inappropriate for the main character to be immediately attracted to the other character.
Can you help me? What are your thoughts on this? Any ideas?
I look forward to your feedback, thank you 💖
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Perhaps something unsatisfactory, but so it is sometimes… many ways lead to Rome. And so to a good story.
What exactly do your characters want? What should their relationship be based on? The worries you are doing I can understand somewhere, but I also think of some scenarios how to make a special connection between people.
Ultimately, this depends enormously on the ideas and ideas you have with regard to your characters and your plot.
It is easily possible that character A – Jennifer – is on a charity event, her friend has just shot her off, she is frustrated, also sexually frustrated, actually has no bock on this evening and because she has drunk a bit too much and it considers a good idea she draws the indirectly successful music producer figure B – Alexei – with herself and they have sex in the next broom because they have sex in the next broom
Unfortunately, this later proves to be very a clette and ultimately manages to conquer it for a long time with tons of romance (or so similar).
At the same time, it can also be that both fall into bed with each other and then lead the next 300 pages to a relationship in which the problems result from the fact that they knew little from each other when they got into each other.
I am also very interesting because you can really weigh all the good but also bad sides of the individual figures… because pure attraction is possible. only a first impression that can build up.
At the same time, there can also be this ‘Friends to Lovers’, where they already know each other at a very deep level and then gradually fall in love with each other.
And it can also be that they may have seen each other in passing and then, on the class trip in the 12th. Great, they sit next to each other on the bus and chemistry is there immediately, even if they have never spoken before.
As I said, it just depends on what you have for goals with your story and, of course, how the characters should be.
What is important is that it fits. To the characters AND AUCH to history. There is no ‘soll’ in my eyes, because in the end everything must fit well and make sense.
If that is consistent, the essential hurdle is already taken… everything else is personal preferences but everyone has and they are relatively balanced in terms of that, I would say.
In this respect:
It just depends on what your story has for a plot. But you should be careful: if the WESENTAL plot for your story is actually this romantic relationship, for example, the essential point of conflict comes into history only DADURCH, then you should bring the whole thing in the beginning.
Because you don’t do that, then your story is essentially in the air.
Then you use Chapter 1 for a brief idea of her… and then what? Then you have to go somewhere with the plot, because this brings the wort to the whole story.
If that’s not the case, then you can take your time, but I’d see that you have another plot that makes the whole thing really exciting. For example, how to have it in the first volume of the tributes of Panem with all the Katniss – Peeta history… that can be left for a long time… However, the ‘love story’ (if you want to call it that) has also resigned properly, because there was something else exciting.
Of course, this also depends on how you want to shape your story. Of course, there are also countless intermediate nuances or scenarios in which both fit when shifting the center of the plot.
So… I think I might have given you some input.
Since it was very long, here again the short version:
Focus on the fact that you have the plot you want and that the action of your characters corresponds to your character. Write such a good story.
As long as the story is good, it is hardly interested in someone how and when the characters meet.
What’s the main plot? I’ve never written a story, but I’ve just been designing one myself (but Fantasy) and I’ve got many answers to the question after I’ve thought about who the characters are. First of all the main character, whose past (which you do not have to write) and what it leads to the place where the characters meet.
I don’t like when the protagonists are right close to each other and it’s coming to sex. In a book I like to read, the person with whom the protagonist comes together is her employer and his little son likes the protagonist. In another story, colleagues and the Counterpart likes the main protagonist from the beginning, but it develops from the other side only later after they spend time together.
If you have a partner (in real life) then consider how your feelings have changed. What led to it. What you like about the person. Ask friends or ask a question about relationships here, you’ll get good ideas!
I don’t even read Romance books, but recently I came across “Froststerne”, a Fantasy/Romance book from 14. The protagonist’s childhood friend is kidnapped and she tries to save him. During the journey, she becomes aware that she has actually fallen in love and also has dreams that she can communicate with him. Basically, you can only see him in the beginning, then in dreams (so on and on but not right) and at the end you will see him in real things – I liked it especially. So that you get a lot about the friend, not only on the part of the protagonist’s swarms, but also conversations between and at the end the feeling of in love and physical proximity. Very slow and natural. I found that very sweet and generally better than this “love at first glance”.
I find it inappropriate if the person in whom the main protagonist is to fall in love is a real Ar***hole and you are hurting also verbally. This whole “forgive me better” thing is completely stupid. You should avoid that. I am also annoyed when the protagonist is strohdumm and immediately loses any backing as soon as the man on whom she appears before her.
However, the question is whether you like to have Spicy – so you will get a lot of attention right now because the youth reads this and there is a huge fan community for the housewives p*rnos á la Coleen Hoover. That’s why you should consider that.
Find out some typists on the net and read them. They give you a good basis for developing figures, plots and conflicts. Writing is a craft that should be learned.
Otherwise, it always helps to write in genre that you like to read. If you have a favorite book in the Romance area, look at how the author introduces the characters and brings the story to run.
For me, it sounds like your story needs more planning before you start. You don’t even know as right as where what and why and that can eventually become a problem.
So before you think about how to start for hours, I would recommend you take a few steps back and ask the following questions:
Who are the characters, how do they live and what do they want?
Especially in the Romance genre, I find well-designed figures extremely important because they are usually very focused. Figures need a past that explains why they are just like them. They need hopes, dreams, fears and weaknesses, flaws and macks/marotes. I need to know as an author how my characters tick. Does my figure have many friends/recognitions? Do their social interactions fall easily? Are you embarrassing things fast? How important is her effect on the outside? How important are their money, social status, relationships? How are their morals?
And no, not all of it necessarily finds mention in history, but for the author it is important to know his characters to be authentic. I can’t write about someone I don’t know at all.
How intensively one deals with the figures also depends a little on the history you want to write, but at least the planning should go beyond the usual marginal data (age, appearance, name, etc.).
What is it connecting? Why are they attracted to each other?
If you are in love with it, there is usually interest/ curiosity/fascination. So ask yourself what the figures are interested in each other. This can be quite simple character properties or even “masks”. But it should be something that lifts the figure from others. For example, figure A could always say brutally honestly what she thinks, with which others often do not understand. FIG. B, however, just finds this particularly attractive and interesting in FIG. A.
Connections, on the other hand, usually arise only over time through common experiences, whether these experiences are positive or negative. Similar strokes of destiny in the past or shared illnesses can also create connection without these experiences. And also common hobbies/governments connect to the other person faster.
What is the great conflict of your history?
Actually, this question should be above all others, because the great, superordinate conflict is the core of all history. That’s what’s all about. Without him, the story just swirls in front of itself and there is nothing interesting to tell. So what does your main character want to achieve in the end, what is the goal and who or what prevents them from reaching their goal?
That is the absolute minimum that should be clear from the outset. Without conflict there is no tension and without tension there is no readable story.
How should she end?
Theoretically, you could also write on it without knowing the end in advance. However, there is a risk of losing and discarding history. So it would be better to think about the end of history beforehand so that you know what to do.
Finally, I would like to get rid of a few words on the topic of book start:
The beginning does not have to be captivating or exciting. In fact, he is more rare in “right” books. The most important thing is that he raises questions to the reader. He has to make curious so that the baited reader continues and does not glow the story again to devote himself to the next.
Therefore, it is not recommended to start from the drowned and death-sufficient beginnings that begin with the awakening and subsequent morning routine of the protagonist or the like. That doesn’t interest anyone and doesn’t push history forward at least.
Actually, they say that just before the beginning of the 1. Conflict (or in the middle) should begin. This does not have to be the main conflict of history, but should of course not be completely irrelevant to the rest of history.
Nevertheless, I would advise you not to break your head over as you should start. Just start as it comes to your mind and write “warm”. In most cases one reworks the beginning again, because a better idea suddenly comes in the middle. Therefore, immediate uploading of “finished” (actually unfinished) chapters is also not a good idea.
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