![]() ![]() I looked for books with understated romance to try and figure out why they worked for me. I ended up reading a lot of romances that I loved to get a sense of how to do write one-the most unsappy romances I could find. That experience taught me a lot about writing romance. I need to write the whole book before I get to know the characters, their motivations, and how to build them. I’m not really a character–driven writer. I felt like I knew who Taisin was from the beginning but I didn’t really know Kaede at all. It starts off by telling you these two girls are going to be in love-sets an expectation for the reader-so you really need to make it feel real, and the two main characters didn’t come to me that easily. The romance in Huntress in particular I love a lot, but it was very hard to do. I ended up enjoying writing this aspect of the books. Though I really love books that have romance in them as an element and in YA, romance is really king. I just wrote Ash and then Huntress as a romance, and what’s funny to me about this is that I have never really enjoyed reading romances. ![]() I’m not interested in heterosexual romances. My books were always going to be between two girls-I didn’t make a radical choice to do this. ![]()
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