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Aww...it was so empty in here. I just had to start this topic.

So...what do you think makes the perfect romance novel, story, fanfic...ect.?

I like a good romance that explores to two characters and their motives for falling in love. Many times I have read fanfics to find that I know nothing about the characters and why they actually like each other.
Something terrible happens and I can't identify with the character or their pain. I can't feel sorry for the girl or guy, or feel like clobbing the girl or guy. *shrugs*
Many times also you read of the girl or guy ending up with the character you expected, when in real life she probably would have gone with the second option.
Also, so many people focus around sexual attraction. This ruins the book for me.

Anyways...those are a few that I could think of. And I am sure I am guilty of some of the very things I listed. LOL that would be too funny! I hope I'm not.

So share...

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You know, Z, I was about to start a topic myself about this, because I saw it was so empty here the other day, but I didn't have the time then. Now I do, so I'll just reply on your post! ;)

I like romances, like Z, where you get to know the characters, but not too much actually. I like mystic, especially about characters!
What I like more, is going behind the person, and learn what they think and what they feel. Discussion or thoughts going on in their minds, which will lead to how they act or how they feel. And that is what I try to focus on in my romance story/fanfic, which I will post when it is finished.

In some strange way, I have grounded a special love to stories, which don't end happy. Where one of the parts die, or something interferes their love, so that they can't stay together. I don't know, I often think that romances are so much more beautiful when it is unhappy in that way.

Well, that was my thoughts around that subject!

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Ah yes! Mystery is good!

I just like to have a good character outline so that I feel with the characters. Sometimes in stories the love comes all too quickly and ends FAST!

I like a good romance that in the end lets me know why they fell in love and how and what came of it...whether good or bad! And...not all romances (in real life) end well. Sometimes it doesn't work out.

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To be honest i’ve not really read many romance novels, the odd non-fiction that contains a love sub-plot maybe, but not your outright Mills and Boon sob story. But i have to agree in principle with what you are saying, i suppose, as with any story, the Romance has to be believable as priority number 1, the characters need to seem as if they are real, and then subsequently should really make the chooses as they would in real life, normally the wrong one, lol.

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I agree with you, Z. Unfortunately, I think I've been guilty of doing the "sexual attraction" part... emoticon

I'm a bad, bad girl.

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Oh I…tell me more, lol.

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Naw... most of my fics are pointless Mary-Sues....

I'm a bad girl... emoticon

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Are you really, but keeping the topic less adult orientated, lmao… emoticon(hum, the tongue smilie doesn't seem that appropriate!!)

Do you write much romance?

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Yeah, pretty much all I write is romance in some form... whether it be object of lust (think Dracula and Anna...), or the "hate each other, but fall in love" or the romantic angst.

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Ah right, i see...would be interested to read some if you wouldn't mind sharing..

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