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@anne-of-lothlorien

Hi! Sorry I didn’t see this until now. 🙂 I think everyone has had some really good thoughts! I would say don’t be afraid to write romance, even if you haven’t actually had experience with it. I have dated people, and I learned things from that, but I learned more from other people’s good (and bad) relationships. You can watch the relationships around you and learn from them. 🙂 Make sure you don’t make the characters perfect. That drives me insane haha. Have the characters make mistakes. Have them hurt each other. That’s just how things work. Also, things will be awkward. They will not always know what to say; there will be miscommunication and confusion. You’ve gotta learn to communicate well with your partner; it’s generally not an immediate thing, and we’re all so different and interpret things differently. XP Look at your characters and see how they will clash. That’ll make things more realistic and more interesting! And don’t have the characters always be focused perfectly on God. That is also unrealistic. Make your characters real, awkward people.

Also, I think it’s good that you won’t be focused on the physical part of a relationship. 🙂 There’s so much more than that! There’s the emotional and spiritual side. It seems like you’ve figured out a few things they like about each other, but maybe try to figure out more. And like @jane-maree said, make it start with a friendship. But also, I think it’s fine to indicate attraction. I find that I am generally initially attracted to a guy, and then as I get to know him, either the feelings fade or grow stronger. 🙂

I hope some of that is beneficial! Good luck! 🙂