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#efficient backstory that doesn't require a lot of details or specifics to understand just why this matters so much to the character
fictionadventurer
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The more I try to write romance, the more I come to the terrifying conclusion that Hallmark relies on all the cheesy tropes because they work.
#dead parents?
#extremely quick way to create sympathy for your main character
#efficient backstory that doesn't require a lot of details or specifics to understand just why this matters so much to the character
#and now i'm trying to write a first meeting and finding that it's absolutely impossible to avoid a crash-into-each-other meet-cute
#it galls me
#i am appalled at my utter hack-ness
#but it is efficient
#it is cute
#you give them an excuse to talk to each other
#without needing to come up with a reason why they can politely approach the other person
#or thinking of what they might say as an opening line
#it's an ice breaker that forces people beyond the polite formalities
#and i ask you when one of the pair is a speedster and the other is invulnerable what else am i *supposed* to do?
#this trope was invented for this highly specific pride and prejudice superhero au situation
#i am one of the few people with valid non-hack reasons to indulge in this trope
#i am going to give them like three or four meet-cutes because this plotline allows it
#and you can't stop me so there
#adventures in writing
#(also just so the five people reading these tags who might be interested are aware)
#(i was going to keep this au to bullet points)
#(then realized that i was writing out enough bullet point details to create an entire scene and just went for it)
#(stories are much harder than bullet points this was a terrible choice)
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