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[Pumpkinbot]

I dunno why, but I feel like I'm doing this. Like, I was going to write (and may still write) a story about a community of ghosts, but, while thinking about the details, I though how I could put romance into the story. I want to, but don't know where it would fit. Yet I still try to find a spot for it. It's like taking one of those children's toys where you put the block through the hole and forcing the circle peg through the triangle hole.

[Dark_Death]

I have been currently working on a fanfiction of Fable: The Lost Chapters.  I removed it from my site because I began to put romance in it.  I have to work on that some more.  So yes, I do that ALOT.  Though I may have hateful feelings toward the opposite sex, I am a very "mushy" person. lol!

[Mysteria]

I do that too! Actually, a lot of writers put some romance in as an underlying story or sub-plot. It's quite common and since most people love a good romance story, it's usually well received. Normally I'd say GO FOR IT, except for the fact that you feel it is like putting a circle peg into a triangle. Yikes! If that is the case, it doesn't sound like it fits your story well (or maybe your style as a writer) and might then just turn out to be detrimental to the story. If you feel like it doesn't fit and shouldn't be, then don't put it in but if you do, and you feel like it would benefit the story or the characters, then go with it...

Good luck either way

[Pumpkinbot]

I do that too! Actually, a lot of writers put some romance in as an underlying story or sub-plot. It's quite common and since most people love a good romance story, it's usually well received. Normally I'd say GO FOR IT, except for the fact that you feel it is like putting a circle peg into a triangle. Yikes! If that is the case, it doesn't sound like it fits your story well (or maybe your style as a writer) and might then just turn out to be detrimental to the story. If you feel like it doesn't fit and shouldn't be, then don't put it in but if you do, and you feel like it would benefit the story or the characters, then go with it...

Good luck either way

Mhm. Just like "Of Mice and Men", which I just finished reading in my English class (AWESOME). I lurved it, and it had no romance. Poor Lennie...;A;

Also, maybe not putting a circle peg into a triangle hole, more like a octagon peg in a circle hole. It just barely doesn't fit. ;D

[Chaosmancer]

I've caught myself doing it too, even when I had no reason to start it it just doesn't seem like I'm capable of not putting it in there. At least I usually make it good so far.

[Lynn]

"If you feel like it doesn't fit and shouldn't be, then don't put it in . . . " (Excellent advice from Mysteria.)

Why not try a romance separately? If it fits in your story, great. If not, maybe the romance can stand on its own.

Whatever you decide, keep us posted on progress.

Lynn

[jonashton]

I think no matter what, if your cast of characters has at least one young male and one young female in it, you'll find yourself pairing them against your will

Just start writing it based on your main plot outline. The romantic subplot will write itself naturally!

[Dark_Death]

Hm.. Of Mice and Men. I read that my sophomore year in high school, and I have to say, I did not enjoy that story. At all.  Maybe it was the way my teacher was forcing us into the text.  We read the Tragety of Othello afterwards.  That was much more enjoyable.

[silenteye21]

        Writing romance into a story is a very common way of adding subtext, that extra dynamic. Romance can even add a counterplot to a good story. It is an easy element to add, but a hard one to get right. I find myself trying to write it into almost all of my stories, and often it turns out to be detrimental to the story (its quite possible i am just lousy at writing romance).