writing tip for romance and oneshot writers; Rather than always have the characters confident and able to confess with no huge difficulty and kiss immediately afterward, try writing about characters who are extremely shy to confession, characters who dont know how to respond, characters that get so wrapped up in their head about hypotheticals that when their crush eventually confesses to them sheepishly, the can respond only with something like 'what?'. Try writing characters who fall so head over heels for someone, that they hate the persons very guts. Write about characters who fall in love, and later realize their affections were platonic, or even familial. Write about characters who dont get their feelings reciprocated, and qre upset, only to have a loving best friend who they cqn rely on, not in a romantic sense, but in a moirail sense. Write characters who get cheated on and don't go back to the cheat, who don't give the cheat a second chance. Write characters who get in relationships, find out their partner is too controlling, and leave. Don't sugarcoat it and have them come back 'because they care'. Write realism. Thank you for listening to my tedtalk.