 Romance/Love: March 19, 2014 Issue [#6217] |
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This week: First Date Awkwardness Edited by: Crys-not really here  
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First Date Awkwardness
We've all had them. The awkward first date. Maybe you've been set up by a friend, or met your date online, and meeting him or her in person for the first time. Maybe you met at a party or at school and want to get to know him or her better. Or, you've been friends for years and have suddenly decided to investigate growing feelings between each other. No matter what the circumstances, chances are your first date was at least a little nerve-wrecking, maybe even totally awkward!
When writing about a couple's first date, it's important to remember how you felt on one of your own. Is your main character really excited to get to know this other person? Remember the old saying "show, don't tell"? Don't say "Donna was so excited to meet Brad." Show that through her body language. She may be jumping up and down or grinning at the thought of him. Is she completely terrified? Have her show up the dinner and accidentally knock over a glass of red wine all over the table, or accidentally set her hair on fire with the candle on the table! It can be incredibly fun to write such over-the-top scenes and break you out of the habit of writing paragraphs of boring back and forth dialogue over the dinner table.
Hopefully, you've never had a fire-inducing first date of that nature.  But I'm sure you've struggled to make conversation with someone you have nothing in common with or made a social blunder in front of a date you were really trying to impress. Including those little moments can be a great way to show how your main character feels. It also helps your reader relate to, and root for, your main character. Everyone loves to see a protagonist overcome her fears and fall in love. Or overcome her fears and realize she is stronger without the other person in her life. Either way, it's essential that you show your reader how the main character feels at every stage of a relationship--from awkward first date to her version of "happily ever after." |
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Thank you for those of you who wrote in about my last Romance/Love Newsletter about teens and sex in literature.
Thank you for this! Sex is a topic that I touch on very obliquely in my series, and while it has not made me uncomfortable in any way to do so, I have in fact worried about how it would be received. I have no sex scenes, but implied intimacy. -Mummsy 
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What is the funniest/most awkward thing to happen to you on a first date? |
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