: Re: How do I write meaningful emotional bonds? I have some problems writing romance. I guess that is because I've never experienced it, and maybe I never will. I tried practicing this genre, writing

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Write what you know. Maybe you've never “experienced ‘romance’” — what have you experienced? Its absence? Seemingly failed efforts to obtain it? Something else?
“Write it down; it might be read: nothing is better left unsaid.”

Let me quote something from one of my unpublished pieces of rubbish:

A full sky, dropping a few motes of snow down on me as i sat on a cold bench and stared across the empty street. Molds of salt blotched the hard pavements which stretched in their confinement, and i held it all in my thoughts. Tightly wrapped cars and people careered before me; like they to me, i also could not spare them much consideration as i sat, chin on my palm, watching for something. Something, something which i could feel with my mind — perhaps? — with senses that were never used or, if so, dreamt.

I don't read most ‘romance’ proper, but I do read things like that.

Anyways: Maybe you should be writing something other than ‘romance’.

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