[ SECRET POST #3190 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3190 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Angry Birds (Movie)]


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[The Great British Bake Off (series 6)]


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[Jennifer Nettles, Ronnie Dunn]


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[Free!]


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[Hannibal]


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[Jennifer Lien, who played Kes in Star Trek: Voyager]


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[BBC Robin Hood]


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(Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie/The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley)












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Comments

Re: How to make a breakup in a work MEAN something

[tabaqui]

Make their relationship feel real. Not some weird, fakey perfect 'ship where they cuddle and bill and coo and are just soooooooooo in lurve. That's...really not real. And it's boring. Give them a little give and take, some tension, some smaller issues that they tussle over and then figure out.

Give them a real, *solid* relationship that isn't full of cliches and built on boring tropes. Then their breakup will really feel more real, and tug at the heart more.

Good luck!

Re: How to make a breakup in a work MEAN something

[elialshadowpine]

Well... to be pedantic... it's not that those aren't real, but they're usually (IRL) very early in relationships, and most, that doesn't last (I've been sorta o.O that even after all the serious stuff and emotional processing of both our previous marriages, the fiance-creature and I are still "full of schmoop", as he calls it, or "twitterpated", as I call it). If it's a relatively new relationship, one year tops (seriously don't base anything on the anecdote about me and my fiance-creature, we are Not Normal), then yeah, that can be realistic (the term to look for is NRE -- New Relationship Energy, if you aren't familiar), but you'd need to show it differently than most people do. It can work, it just needs to be handled unlike how 99% of writers do. :P

I think OP is talking about a more established couple, though, in which case, that would be completely out of character. If the fiance-creature and I are still shmoop-bunnies four years from now, I'm going to be doing some serious WTF.