Meme - Day 16

Had to get a new router today, so I am late with this.

16. Do you write romantic relationships? How do you do with those, and how “far” are you willing to go in your writing?

I do write them. I never used to, but the older I got the harder it is to keep romantic relationships out of stories.

I have written some fairly explicit stuff, just to see how I could carry it off. It was a challenge at first to write any kind of sexual relationship because I struggled with making it sound realistic and not over-the-top like some romance novels. I never read straight romance, most of the books I read the romance elements are a secondary plot line to the suspense or thriller plot line that carries the book. So I wanted what I wrote to fit that type of genre.

I took more risks in my fan fic with romantic relationships because I think I was aware a lot of the fandom liked these relationships. I tried to hide them as the secondary plot (usually to some kind of criminal activity) but the truth was they were the primary plot. It took awhile for me to admit I wrote romance in these cases.