Day five Nano Challenges
#1
Cupid's Shotgun has Exploding Buckshot
You know those teen dramas that crop up everywhere? They’ve begun to invade books… Or maybe they were there in books before, I just never noticed. Yep, this is another way to do romance.
Mary had a little lamb, but Bo Peep, well… she’s got a flock of sheep. So Mary got jealous of Bo Peep and there were cat fights over sheep and lambs and wool was flying everywhere, and BaBa Blacksheep just decided to use his three bags full of wool to make yarn and turn it into sweaters and sell it at the farmer’s market.
The above little story doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but sometimes teen dramas don’t. That would be because teen drama is the equivalent of watching a train wreck in slow motion. You just can’t turn your eyes away. But it can be fun to write, fun to read, and fun to watch on TV. For instance, the TV show “The 100” is all of the following: dystopia meets Lord of the Flies meets teen drama meets “Sixteen, Soon to be Pregnant, and HAVING ALL THE LOVERS”.
If you want to write romance in the teen drama style, it will involve over-complicated geometry. Decide if that’s what you want for your story and if so, go ahead and start popping out characters. You’re going to need a lot of them. Just remember if you go this route to make sure your plot is solid.
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Day five Nano challenge #2
Cupid's Latest Upgrade: Proximity Mines
BROMANCE.
SHIPPING.
You know it’s a thing now, right? And the verdict is in on it, and people love it. Canon pairings are awesome, but readers are going to do this thing called shipping other pairings. They’re going to be like, “THESE GUYS ARE SO AWESOME!!!” And in some cases, fans are going to find pairings that are complete opposites and have never done anything but try to kill each other and they’re going to be like, “THESE GUYS ARE SO AWESOME!” So no matter how hard you try to get Jane and Peter together, you’re going to find that Peter and Megra (who never ever met and are not even in the same fandom) are getting paired together.
Be aware of who is in your book, and what the relationship between them is. It can’t hurt to spend a few minutes crafting their relationship (whether it’s Matt trying to kill Robbin, or Robbin and Jane having some witty banter).
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Day five Nano Challenge #3
Cupid Goes Nuclear
No, seriously. Completely nuclear. I mean full on radioactive, face burning off, mutations, two-headed deer, apocalyptic nuclear fallout. These are the type of relationships in which everyone gets hurt. Jackie loves Frank but Frank has been having an affair with Regina and Regina is refusing to admit that she’s a lesbian. No one is admitting to themselves or each other that they’re all having problems and everything keeps spiraling worse out of control until Johnny, the next door neighbor, gets mistaken for Frank and is shot as a result. Innocent people are hurt because of the romance problems in this situation, and it doesn’t always mean that person is involved in the situation. Definitely keep in mind the pain and suffering that revolves out of a nuclear relationship.
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