>>25060015
Cool, now you just have to draw from personal experience and… oh, wait…

>>25060038
It's based on a horrible relationship I had

>>25060015
i wrote a love story too. it's really nice, anon. you should do it

>>25060015
Woman read a lot of fantasy (most of modern fantasy best sellers are written by and for women.)
Horror not so much, but psychological thriller is also a big hit with them.
Honestly a part from philosophy, all other genre have more female than male readers.

>>25060038
Didn't stop Austen or Emily Bronte.

>>25060015
You do realize there's a difference between men's romance and women's romance, right?

Is it just me or is romance boring as fuck? It's just not interesting.

>>25060063
You story is going to suck then.

>>25061983
pedantic and contrived

>>25060015
God can you imagine a hot babe flicking her bean to your prose. Life goals

The first book I wrote that sold more than a hundred copies was a love story. I tried to get my westerns to catch on, but I fucking suck at writing. I essentially only write romance even though I'm a kissless virgin.
If you're sort of too shitty to get published but able to church out some pulp, romance is pretty much what you write nowadays

>>25060015
the romance that women read is almost certainly nothing like the "love story" you as a man want to write, and if you try to sell them something labelled "romance" that doesn't fit their strict genre standards they will get insanely mad at you and reviewbomb you to oblivion. imagine a horde of autists that need their animus to follow extremely specific genre tropes precisely or else they get the grumpy dumpies - that's how women treat their romance fiction.

>>25060063
ahhh yes because that's exactly the kind of romance that sells

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How do you write sex? No, seriously. I wanna write a love story and it isn't complete without sex but I have no clue how to write it. Flowery dialogue is cringe, matter of a fact is cringe, realistic is cringe, metaphors is cringe. Has there ever been a well written sex scene?

If you can create a really compelling character (the hard part), then you can just tell 'their' love story...another way to subvert the usual lame, safe shit that piles high all around us, threatening to consume us.

make it about milking mermen in the sea farm to fight against the patriarchy and nazism

>>25060015
Such a cool post.

>This preoccupation with genres like horror and fantasy is an impediment to success.
What is success ?
To me, it is adding my unique god-given view onto the world, no matter who considers it valuable. What is success to you ?

>Women read more than men, and women read mostly romance.
But isn't it better to write something you want to read ? Are you a women ?

>I say that love should be literature's highest aim
On that, I agree, but love of what ? Self ? Others ? Society ? God ?
Concepts ?

>I am truly writing
I am not saying this ironically, which may be hard to believe since you seem jaded, but I would 100 % read a story about you, struggling to write a love story and what goes through your thinking, rather than the actual love story that you might make out of spite. That post got me invested and it was just 4 sentences !

Hope that helps, and godspeed Anon

>>25062842
Make it funny.