For those who are considering whether or not to roleplay with me, here's a sample of my writing.



Crack! Amy's head hit the stone. Pain exploded behind her eyes. She slowly curled into a ball, the only thing she could do at this point to protect her battered body from any more assault.

He walked toward her slowly, a saunter in his step, utter confidence on his face. Rich nudged her in the ribs with his foot. He lifted an eyebrow. "Come on, Amy. Get on up, now. We aren't finished."

She coughed, bile at the back of her throat. "R-Rich... stop this... just..."

"We had a deal, you know." He crouched beside her. "You're the one who didn't follow through. At least I'm giving you a fighting chance, you know; it's more than you deserve."

"Deserve?" Despite feeling like a giant bruise, Amy's anger overcame pain. Her head jerked up, nostrils flaring. "Deserve! That's funny. Because you're the one who so clearly stands by justice."

"Ha, ha." He noticed her hand moving. When the metal flashed through the air, he did not so much as flinch from surprise, grabbing her wrist in his giant hand as the knife clattered to the ground. "You irritate me when you try to be clever."

Rich paused; the knife had given him new inspiration. He reached for it, saying, "Yeah, justice; perhaps I don't stand by it so closely, but neither do you, deary. You had an amount to pay me, you were forwarned, and you didn't make it by the due date." He smiled. "That doesn't seem very just. Now does it."

Amy bared her teeth, glaring up at him from beneath her bangs. "I despise you."

"It's mutual, darling." He held up the knife, letting it glint in the light. "Let me leave you something to remember me by." His grip still tight on her wrist, he pulled her in close.

A Little Tutorial About Love


???or, writing it, anyway.


There are 14 basic characteristics of love to keep in mind as you write romance. Follow them and you'll be sure you're heading in the right direction.

1. Love is??? patient
2. Love is??? kind
3. Love does not??? envy
4. Love does not??? boast
5. Love is not??? arrogant
6. Love is not??? rude
7. Love does not??? insist on its own way
8. Love does not??? rejoice in wrongdoing
9. Love??? rejoices in truth
10. Love??? bears all things
11. Love??? believes all things
12. Love??? hopes all things
13. Love??? endures all things
14. Love never ends

All the characteristics listed above describes the awe-inspiring perfect love. In Greek, that love would be called agape (uh-gaw-pay)???or, unconditional, no strings attached, no flaws. But, even as perfect humans do not exist, perfect love does not either, not in the real world at least. Except for in one single circumstance, but I shan't go into that. So unless you're writing an extremely "shojo" style romance, as in, sparkles and roses, boy is hot girl is cute, Mary Sues all around, you must break some of these laws. What? What does this mean? Breaking of the characteristics of love leads to conflict.

As I'm sure you know, every story must have conflict. So whether your romance is only a side plotline or the main focus, to have it be believable, there must be conflict. Break characteristic 1, for example???have one or both of them be impatient, intolerant of mistakes, demanding, unable to wait, unaccepting.
Break characteristic 10, for example???instead of bearing with each other, as that time old wedding vow says, "for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part", make one or both be unreliable.

Perhaps the most popular characteristic of love to break is characteristic 3, love does not envy. Often this leads to love triangles and the like.


Internal and external are the only two categories of conflict related to romance. Every kind of conflict can fit into one or the other. Internal means emotional problems within the relationship. External is more physical of a conflict???a factor that can make the relationship problematic. For example, sickness, social status, ethnicity, a