[ SECRET POST #3154 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3154 ⌋

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[ketita]

It might be that one of the issues with slow-burn fic is that what's often slow-burning is the UST. It's all about lots and lots of UST, and lots of issues the characters get stuck up in their own heads trying to resolve, with little-to-no external plot moving things along.

Haha, you described it perfectly. Only in fics I've seen, it's the hasty wrap-up in the penultimate scene/chapter, with the ending and climax being a huge dramatic exultant smut scene.

I think there's a lot to be said for writing romance without smut, or with very little smut. If only because it forces more emotional investment. My personal rule for writing romance is that there has to be both a "romantic" plotline and an "external" plotline, i.e. events that carry on regardless of the romance.