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My thanks to whomever had the courage to click on this topic. I realize that most of us are teens, so we don’t have much experience in the romance field, but I guess you don’t have to be in love to write about it. But that’s also my dilemma…

So, I’m trying to decide whether or not I should include a romance in my WIP, Firefly Town. I already have a wedding in the book, of two small side characters, Gloria and Harper, and I’m trying to decide if Gloria’s older brother, Clay, should fall in love with the protagonist, Felicity. Felicity crashes her bike a few miles from Firefly Town and Clay is the first person she meets, then his mom and sister, Gloria.

Gloria’s wedding is rather easy to do as I’ve seen tons of weddings and the couple isn’t featured much, so I don’t need to go into detail about their feelings, etc.

Clay and Felicity however, would be much harder. The story is first person, which means a bunch of Felicity’s inside thoughts, and writing first person romance would probably be a struggle… I mean, it’s not like I have much experience with it. I have, like… zero. If I did make them fall for each other, it would probably still be very simple and subtle. No kissing or whatever. 😛 😀 I don’t want it to distract from the main plot of the book. But it would still be uncharted waters for me.

So…

1. Would you say go for it? In your experience is writing romance not that hard? Is it amazingly difficult? What do you like to see and not see in story romance?

2. If you do have experience in writing romance, can you give me some pointers? What do people… do? I mean, are there certain ways they act, how do you portray a person realizing they’ve fallen in love… etc?

3. I don’t know if anyone on here is actually in love in real life, but if you happen to be, then do you have some real-life tips? How does it feel? Awkward? Amazing? How do you exactly express your love to someone for the first time? If that’s way too personal, don’t feel obliged to answer.

Thank you in advance!