The author needs to make them ache for each other, causing us readers to ache for them as well. Getting the scent of their hair and not being able to touch them. Brushing up against each other and feeling the sear on their skin.
Have them alone in a room where they are close enough to kiss, but get interrupted. The more obstacles between them, the more the author can ramp up their feelings for each other over time, creating that agonizingly delicious build of attraction between the characters.Ĭomplicated relationships leave lots of room for unresolved tension between the characters. The important thing is that they are pining for each other and that the reader wants them to get together, too.
Pair a misunderstanding with an insecurity, and there’s no way these people are getting together for at least 250 pages. The more things keeping the two apart, the better. In a slow burn, it’s even better to pile multiples of these emotional reasons on top of each other and throw in a few tropes along the way. That is the kind of reason that keeps people apart in real life: misunderstandings, fear of being vulnerable, insecurities. They don’t think it’s a good enough reason for them to be apart. Many readers say that they don’t like reading books where the characters could easily be together if they just talked to each other. There needs to be a good reason that these two people can’t be together right now: distance, work, impropriety. By signing up you agree to our terms of use
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