So when you say that you keep finding yourself coming up with ideas involving romance, I would conclude that it's probably other elements of a romantic subplot that appeal to your subconscious, e.g. conflicts of loyalty which may happen to be associated with emotional commitments to ideas versus people...
You've figured out what I couldn't. It is loyalty, and characters having to decide who or what deserves their loyalty the most, that interests me.
I honestly do suspect that the appeal of romances where an 'ordinary girl' gets wooed by a criminal is the same as the "Bride of the Sheikh" (from Valentino onwards!) or "Seduced by the Duke" style: the strong, ruthless, dangerous man whose one vulnerable point is his inexplicable attraction towards the reader-insert heroine :-p
I've suspected as much myself, and that sort of thing doesn't appeal to me at all—I just find it frightening rather than sexy. :P
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Date: 2021-11-01 01:05 am (UTC)You've figured out what I couldn't. It is loyalty, and characters having to decide who or what deserves their loyalty the most, that interests me.
I honestly do suspect that the appeal of romances where an 'ordinary girl' gets wooed by a criminal is the same as the "Bride of the Sheikh" (from Valentino onwards!) or "Seduced by the Duke" style: the strong, ruthless, dangerous man whose one vulnerable point is his inexplicable attraction towards the reader-insert heroine :-p
I've suspected as much myself, and that sort of thing doesn't appeal to me at all—I just find it frightening rather than sexy. :P