How To Write Romantic Love

How to write romantic love

Writing romantic love is simultaneously one of the most joyful things you can do as a writer, and one of the most difficult. There’s a lot of emotion to cover - from the highs of a new relationship, to the struggles of a relationship on the rocks.

Like all of us, your characters will display love differently. Are they open and affectionate? Shy and nervous? Loud and blunt? To help you along the way, here’s some examples of descriptions you can use to show (not tell) your readers that your characters are in love. Movement

Inching towards each other to touch

Shyly tucking stray hair behind the ear

Unconsciously parting or licking lips

Embracing with full bodies touching

Nervously shuffling feet

Running and reaching with open arms

Fiddling with hair or clothing

Crossing or uncrossing legs

Leaning forward to show attentiveness

A bounce in the step

Glancing flirtily over the shoulder

Facial expressions

Flirtatious winking

Smiling to themselves at nothing

Glancing up through lowered lashes

Unblinking eye contact

Grinning or beaming uncontrollably

A look of yearning

Lips slightly parted with desire

Dilated pupils

Glowing cheeks or flushed skin

Faraway, daydreaming look

Slight, secretive smile

Sounds

Deep sighs

Unconscious swallowing

Nervous coughing or throat clearing

Light chuckle with a silly grin

Grunts of appreciation or praise

An inner, audibly racing pulse

Thumping heart

Quick, short breaths

Low, whispered voices

Listening to love songs

Joyfully humming

Feelings and sensations

Nervous tingling

Butterflies in the stomach

Hot and flushed face

Hyper-sensitive skin

Acute awareness of personal proximity

Weak knees or legs turning to jelly

Shaky hands

Loss of speech or getting tongue-tied

Daydreaming and absentmindedness

Seeing the beauty in the world

Pulse racing

having social anxiety like hi nice to meet you if you ask me my interests i will cry. if you ask me what kind of music i like i won’t know how to answer. as if there’s a right answer. as if it’s a test. every conversation is a performance. i take my cues from you. small talk. I cannot carry a conversation if it’s too heavy. i cannot carry a conversation at all. i am looking for a reason to leave. i remember to make eye contact. it’s clumsy. it’s awkward. tell me what your interests are. you make it look so easy. you mention something that i also like. it’s safe to talk about it now. i am more a mirror than myself. i am still looking for a reason to leave. you find one first.

Tutorial: plastic keychains

I know a ton of you have been waiting for this one. Teaching you to make your own plastic keychains!

To start off, I think the biggest question everyone has is what I use to make them. I work with shrink film. You might be familiar with Shinky Dink brand shrink film as a kid. I use Grafix brand white inkjet shrink film. The inkjet kind is relatively pricey compared to the regular kind. If you’re using regular, I don’t recommend you stick it in your printer. Sharpie markers would be good for that.

Alright, now open up the file with the images that you’re working with. Make sure your images are a lot bigger than you want your finished product to be since they shrink significantly.

You’ll also want to lighten the opacity to about half. I go somewhere between 50-60%.

Now print your image out! I’ve found that it works best for me when I have it at the plain paper setting, and standard print quality.

Holepunch with a ¼" holepuncher BEFORE you shrink them. It’s so much more work to have to punch holes when your plastic is thick!

Cut out your design, leaving the amount of border you want.

Set them on a tray for convenience. An aluminum foil sheet works too, but I recommend cookie trays because they are easier and quicker to get out of the oven.

Preset heat. Your shrink film package will tell you what temperature to set it at, but I find that it isn’t always accurate for me. I generally set temperature to 350 degrees or so.

Put them in the oven. Remember to keep track of time! I leave them in for about a minute and a half.

After time is up they should be super small! Magic!

If your charms are not flat, put something heavy on it right out of the oven when they are still hot and malleable.

If you’d like to, you can seal them now. In my last two batches, I used clear topcoat nail polish. The problem with that is that I need between 3-5 coats of it, and it takes a while to dry. I’ve been experimenting with modpodge.

For lariats, you can use jump rings or lobster clasps.

Here is one that I made that wasn’t sealed. The finished texture after shrinking is a little bit rough. There’s nothing wrong with leaving them unsealed, but because they are inkjet printed, the colors wash right of without protection.

This is one that was sealed with modpodge. The colors become a little more vibrant and smooth and water resistant. Things often get stuck on when applying or drying so be careful.

These ones down here were sealed with clear nail polish. They come out shiny if you put enough coats, but the grainy texture will still be there.

Well, there ya go! Have fun making your own keychains!

Tips for writing smart characters without falling into the cliché traps, based on personal observation:

Smart people are more likely to be introverts, but not all of them are. I have a friend who’s officially recognized gifted, has amazing grades, and seems to know people wherever he goes.

The “team brain” in media is often portrayed as math-minded/science-minded, but this isn’t the only kind of smart! They could also be language-minded, for instance. One isn’t less than the other, just different. (However, often people lean towards just one of the two.)

Likely to have a large vocabulary, but unlikely to use big words and phrases. You know who does do that? People who think they’re smart and/or want you to think they’re smart. In short, overly big words are something you can use to indicate your “smart” character’s a fraud.

Otherwise, talk like normal people. Seriously, don’t have your character talking in print-ready sentences in everyday conversation unless they have a good reason (e.g. growing up with lots of books and very little social interaction or speaking a second language they learned exclusively from books).

Smart does not equal organized. At all.

Not all are straight-A students. This is because, if you were The Gifted Kid™ who never needed to try hard in the first years of school, you never learned how to work hard and become a lazy ass. Alternatively, especially with unrecognized gifted kids, they might underperform because they’re too bored to put in effort.

Very few brag about their superior intelligence (that’s just a douchebag thing, not a smart people thing). In fact, highly likely to think of themselves as not particularly smart. (My one friend does this, but also recognizes that a lot of people around him are not as smart as him, leaving him to wonder if he’s surrounded by idiots.)

However, sometimes they forget they’re not the average person and get annoyed with people’s supposed “slowness” or “stupidity” without realizing that they’re the odd one out.

On the other hand, forgetting they’re not average leads them to take warnings about hard classes/tests/exams seriously and freak out, only to then wonder what everyone was freaking out over.

Some people’s brains seem to have an on/off switch. Depending on if they can be bothered, they either know everything or lapse into full-on “I don’t know and I don’t care” mode.

They do laugh at stupid jokes. I promise. You can never be too smart to laugh at stupid jokes, only too pretentious.

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