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A good way to avoid cliche in romance is to choose unusual characters as participants in the romance. The love poetry shared between a pair of nuclear physicists could be very romantic without ...
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System
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2019-12-08T06:02:05Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Henry Taylor
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2019-12-08T06:02:05Z (almost 5 years ago)
A good way to avoid cliche in romance is to choose unusual characters as participants in the romance. - The love poetry shared between a pair of nuclear physicists could be very romantic without being at all cliche. - Escaped prisoners on the run from the Law might fall in love during a high tension cat-and-mouse pursuit, leading to frenzied encounters peppered with the risk of capture and betrayal. - There is no rule that says that romance needs to involve humans. Try writing a canine or feline (or god-forbid, a mixed canine feline) relationship. Breaking from traditional two person pairings and three person love-triangles can also be useful for avoiding cliche. A happy quintet would be ripe with odd geometries and opportunities for entertaining miscommunication. Simply stated, if you don't want it to be cliche, make it strange.
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2017-02-01T15:03:18Z (almost 8 years ago)
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