Honestly I love to read books (that are easy to read [: I call them dumb books, cause they exist purely for entertainment-at least for me). Although I started this whole reading thing with fantasy and adventure, romance has become quite a staple in my diet.
Romance book does not make me idealise guys or relationships (I'm not ready for one so let's leave that at that) but as a younger girl it did make me curious. About the one thing that is not so explicit in my foray in the romance world, sex. Believe it or not that's where my downward spiral with regards to purity and all started. Simply romance books that hinted but did not say, the human curiosity is a really powerful thing. We search and we foray till we find what we want, answers.
So today I'm not writing to rant about reading actually but writing. I'm not exactly the best english writer and I'll probably never be, but reading have always sparked an interest in me to write. Yet my boring and sedate live do not exactly give me materials to write. And if I were to adapt stories I read aren't I creating the problem I so despise -writing love as if sex is a given. I have been at this stalemate for quite some time. How do I write a story where there is no sexual tension?
Ironically the answer just came to me, don't write a romance. Write about adventures and new worlds but what's scary is that would mean creating a new world. One based on fantasy, wait romance are based on those too...
Should I start writing then?
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