- Mar 19, 2017
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@DarkSilver If your main problem with writing romance for max and lisa is that they are related, why not just take that out of the equation. At least while writing romance for their scenes don't think of them as being related. Instead come at those scenes with the understanding these are two characters who have known each other their whole lives and are just friends trying to move into a romantic relationship. Their are plenty of people in the world who have known their significant others their whole lives and moved on to romantic relationships.
Also keep in mind max and lisa are not actually brother and sister. They are not real people. They can not be blood related if they have no blood. I understand from a writing standpoint you need to understand the characters relationship with each other and their motivations for the things they do. But just in your own head couldn't you take the fact they are brother and sister out of the scenario and just write for the characters that way.
In fact you created the characters so if you wanted to you could even decide that max is secretly adopted and they are not related by blood at all. That would not be something that would have to come up in the story but it could be something you could think to yourself to get around the issue.
I suppose what it really comes down to is if your problem is that they are related by blood or that they have been raised together. So would you have a similar issue writing for characters that are related by blood who have never been around each other? What about characters who are not related by blood who have grown up together? For instance if you were writing for characters who's parents were best friends. Who are not related to each other but were raised together and had that sort of sibling bond then later in life decided to move on to a romantic relationship.
Also keep in mind max and lisa are not actually brother and sister. They are not real people. They can not be blood related if they have no blood. I understand from a writing standpoint you need to understand the characters relationship with each other and their motivations for the things they do. But just in your own head couldn't you take the fact they are brother and sister out of the scenario and just write for the characters that way.
In fact you created the characters so if you wanted to you could even decide that max is secretly adopted and they are not related by blood at all. That would not be something that would have to come up in the story but it could be something you could think to yourself to get around the issue.
I suppose what it really comes down to is if your problem is that they are related by blood or that they have been raised together. So would you have a similar issue writing for characters that are related by blood who have never been around each other? What about characters who are not related by blood who have grown up together? For instance if you were writing for characters who's parents were best friends. Who are not related to each other but were raised together and had that sort of sibling bond then later in life decided to move on to a romantic relationship.