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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2018-01-28 02:34 pm

[ SECRET POST #4043 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4043 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2018-01-28 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
The idea that y'all think "het romance" is that different than "gay romance" just boggles me.

If Rowling sucks at romance, she sucks at romance. Period.

(Anonymous) 2018-01-28 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, this.

(Anonymous) 2018-01-28 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Writing good het romance and good gay romance are two overlapping skill sets, IMO. There's a lot of common ground - more so than otherwise. But especially since people don't write about relationships in a vacuum, there's social context and how that affects the relationship dynamic, for starters. Writing a love story between a man and a woman set in, say, England in the 1800s is going to be slightly different than writing a love story between two men in that time period.

And then there's the mechanics of sex, which might come into play in a romantic fic. Lots of potential for hilarious mistakes, especially for authors who don't do their research.