I haven't written many stories with established relationships, but recently I've found that they're pretty fun to write.
February 15th, 2014 at 06:39pm
This still very much holds true for me. With just about everything that I write, that relationship is already established in some way, even if it has yet to become romantic. I have close to three hundred pieces posted and countless WIPs, and I can only think of one story in which the two leads actually meet at the beginning of the story. In everything else, even if they aren't officially a couple, there's still a friendship or, at the very least, an acquaintance.
- i saw sparks:
- I pretty much only write established relationships these days because I'm more interested in the day-to-day workings of a relationship than how people get together. When it all boils down to it, most couples get together in similar ways, and especially if I know these characters are going to eventually become a couple, it's boring as hell for me to read.
I like reading and writing about characters that are in a relatively stable point in their relationship because I feel like you get a better glimpse of who these people are as individuals and how they come together as a couple when things are calm as opposed to in the beginning of a relationship (when you're just trying to impress the other person) or conflict during a relationship.