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You cannot prevent that suspicion altogether; especially because that is your plan. Which means your two characters are heterosexual; so you can't really use homosexuality as a show-stopper. I wou...
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System
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2019-12-19T22:13:44Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T11:37:00Z (almost 5 years ago)
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You cannot prevent that suspicion altogether; especially because that is your plan. Which means your two characters are heterosexual; so you can't really use homosexuality as a show-stopper. I would suggest you make it clear that one of them is already in love, and the other one knows it. If your guy is a jerk, that may be because he is unhappy, the woman he loves is not really in love with _him_, and he needs to learn in the course of the book that what he was feeling isn't really love at all. If your girl is hateful; same thing, and same lesson: Maybe she is hateful because the guy she loves is a player, using her, and she has mistaken something else for "love". Something like dependency, or the lies of a player that convinced her they were in love but just uses her for sex. Other than sociopaths (who cannot fall in love) people are not jerks, or hateful, for nothing. Those traits grow out of psychic trauma of some sort. Start them out in the midst of their respective traumas, already clearly _thinking_ they are in love, and it may defeat the reader's instinct to [ship them](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shipping). But you cannot prevent shipping altogether, even Batman and Robin have been shipped!
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2019-04-02T20:41:48Z (over 5 years ago)
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