Romance novels often get blown off by the wider reading community (and especially the literary) as frivolous emotional porn (and sometimes actual porn) lacking any real substance or plot. This couldn’t be further from the truth. However, like all genres, romance does have some troublesome tropes. Some of these tropes are perpetuated in common advice… Continue reading Writing a Healthy Romance
Tag: Happiness
Your Happy vs. My Happy
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” ― Ernest Hemingway I recently wrote a story, a fanfiction in the one fandom I will actually write for. It had a rather dark theme and one I myself feel very passionately about. In it a certain character, one I identify very closely with due… Continue reading Your Happy vs. My Happy