the problem (to me, subjectively) with so many modern love stories is the lack of ✨ YEARNING ✨ make your characters yearn and pine and long and angst for each other, i beg - ThreadSky

bookspotlight.bsky.social • 89 days ago

the problem (to me, subjectively) with so many modern love stories is the lack of ✨ YEARNING ✨

make your characters yearn and pine and long and angst for each other, i beg

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chaoticauthor.online•89 days ago

My demisexual arse might (emphasis on "might") enjoy romance a lot more if there was more of this and far less instalove 😂

amweald.com•88 days ago

I can get behind instalust (just wrote one) but instalove makes my insides curdle. Most of the time, like 99% lol, I'm wayyyyyyy too ace for anything other than friends to lovers, or at the very least a "we bonded over a shared experience! I'm attracted to you now!"

chaoticauthor.online•88 days ago

Oh yeah, so many allosexuals have said that's a thing. So while I've never experienced it, I'm cool with that.

rofantasybooks.bsky.social•88 days ago

Oh I think I've got you covered. My man Fyrian is yearning for a man who has a broken soul (literally) and is missing his emotions... Safe to say, Fyrian needs to give it his all.

penguin-ponders.bsky.social•89 days ago

Have you read any R. Cooper? Serious levels of pining.

zanwrites.bsky.social•89 days ago

thisisdre.bsky.social•89 days ago

If it doesn't have any of this I don't want it

robynnesage.bsky.social•88 days ago

Not my current project, but my next one is a PINE FOREST, I'm telling you

rwbock60.bsky.social•89 days ago

Have you read The City and Its Uncertain Walls? Now that book features characters yearning.

crow202.com•89 days ago

Yearning requires separation, something that's increasingly difficult in modern life. Anyone can text, mail, blog post, or video chat to their lover from an inexpensive phone with little time or effort.

crowfather.net•89 days ago

Could it be that yearning is a product of settings wherein there are few, attractive options available? Small towns, isolated communities, etc. And that in a modern setting there’s simply an acknowledgment of having more and better possibilities?

gwenvines.bsky.social•89 days ago

oh have i got you covered

pjccahill.bsky.social•89 days ago

I think a lot of people have different thresholds for it. What's a good example of yearning to your eye? I /feel/ like my romance plots involve plenty of yearning, but I can't be sure that works for others.

thespiralswing.bsky.social•89 days ago

For this I read Aziracrow 😈😇

reeleyes.bsky.social•89 days ago

joangrey.bsky.social•89 days ago

For stories to contain yearning, they also must contain quiet moments - the currently popular SUPER FAST PACING doesn't allow for the internalism and introspection that true yearning requires.

One can yearn while standing next to one's love interest. Distance isn't the issue.

Internal focus is.

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