Most genres will allow you to turn the love interest into a damsel where she gets captured by the villain, effectively taking her out of the story for large chunks of time so you don’t have to worry about characterising her. Don’t worry no modern woman will get up in arms about seeing a someone of her marginalised gender reduced to flat, two-dimensional stereotype. The main character needs a romantic partner, but it’s not like she needs any actual character or anything. #2: The Love Interest’s Character is Optional That’s not sacrificing your characters’ integrity for the sake of a cheap subplot, that’s just fact. Everyone acts totally unlike themselves when pursuing and maintaining a romantic relationship. They chose your book-which was intentionally placed outside of the romance genre-specifically for the romance.Īlso, feel free to completely pull your characters out of character to advance the subplot. It’s not like readers picked up your book to read about actual fantasy adventure or spy intrigue. You’re writing an epic science fiction adventure? Romantic subplot! A coming-of-age young adult novel? Romantic subplot! A historical fiction with complex political intrigue and an emphasis on the parallels to our current social problems? Better shoe in a romantic subplot!įeel free to derail the rest of the story.
Here are some tips for writing an amazing, spectacular, absolutely perfect romantic subplot that nobody will hate!! #1: It’s MandatoryĮvery story must have a romantic subplot! It’s gotta be a law or something, since 95% of all stories have one.
This is literally how not to write a romantic subplot. I wish I didn’t have to make this disclaimer, but if I don’t, someone will take this whole joke way too seriously.
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