Profile Writer. Student. Lord of the Dance. Blurredline.com Movie Reviews cterrill(at)blurredline.com Buy Blurred Line Amazon.com Amazon.ca Barnes&Noble.com Booksamillion.com Read it free in PDF Format Blog Exchange Experiment Results Quality Blogs Making Light The Presurfer Scalzi's Whatever Scalzi's By The Way POD-dy Mouth William Gibson Ali's QuixotiQ Writings Dave's Blogography White Screen of Despair Planet Moron Miss Snark Lee Carlon All Kinds of Writing Aggressive Fiction Architect by Day, Writer by Night Stalkers Not Allowed The Y Logs Totally Unauthorized Bookslut Benjamin Solah Ramblings from the Desert SF Signal Archives March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 Et Cetera Feeds Atom Feed	Thursday, December 22, 2005 - Writing Love Melly recently had a discussion on writing disturbing scenes. After some thought, I realized that, morbid as it may seem, it's much easier for me to write about grim, disturbing things than anything to do with love. I think that has a lot to do with the fact that love is an emotion you can easily get cartoonish with when writing. Indeed, sometimes it's hard to know exactly where the line between utter sappiness and realism lies. Something I've realized is that, throughout my writing, never once have I had two characters go through the process of falling in love. I've had characters who are in love, but I've never dealt specifically with any kind of courtship. I'm not sure exactly what to attribute this to, though it's tempting to point to my own level of cynicism. I'd much rather have two people who are potential love interests trade snarky dialogue and not really get anywhere than have them fall for each other. I think (and this might be another product of that cynicism) I don't bother much with love because it never quite fits the tone of my stories. For those who are even semi-familiar with any of my writing, it's pretty easy to see that I like to paint a pretty bleak picture about life. And really, it's just hard to cram a successful love affair into a bleak story, unless one of the lovers dies, but that's just so cliche. How do you write about love? Cavan blogged at 4:35 PM | 5 comments	Progress Archive Currently: 3k Estimated Total: 100k Mass Romantic Currently: 12k Estimated Total: 30k Cavan Radio Playlist Reading Such Is My Beloved - Morley Callaghan Listening Jason Falkner - Can You Still Feel? Death Cab For Cutie - Plans Sahara Hotnights - Jennie Bomb Watching The Woodsman King Kong Read My Reviews Wishlist Empire of the Senseless - Kathy Acker Brendan Benson - The Alternative To Love Internal Links Under Construction Link Link