Every good long-term relationship is built on one of the participants not being eaten by a monster. This is my writing tip for the day.<\/p>\n
One of the participants in a love story being eaten by a monster, of course, is the stuff of tragedy.
\nUnless it’s a comedy.<\/p>\n
Whenever I have a character be eaten by a monster I don’t plot it out. Because that’s not the way it happens in the real world.<\/p>\n
Remember that a tragic love story is still a love story. This may be viewed as a flaw in the categorization of stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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