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In my current WIP, I've got two young people falling desperately, passionately in love. (Living in their heads has been a very intense experience. Whew.) I've tried to really get their experience across to the reader. Thing is, this isn't a romance. They're not going to get a Happily Ever After. Political considerations are going to get in the way until they'll have no choice but to call it off themselves.
Assuming I've done anything near a competent job of getting readers to invest in these two, are they going to hate my guts when she basically tells him it's over and he perfectly understands it, even while it's ripping both of them into shreds? Or should I throw them a shred of consolation, hinting that maybe, just maybe, the relationship could become possible in the future? The future lying somewhere beyond the end of this particular novel.
I'm not there in my writing yet, but I have a nasty habit of making things difficult for myself (you try writing Christian fantasy and then make a believer the bad guy...) and I'm wondering if maybe I'm overdoing it a bit. Or a lot.
Assuming I've done anything near a competent job of getting readers to invest in these two, are they going to hate my guts when she basically tells him it's over and he perfectly understands it, even while it's ripping both of them into shreds? Or should I throw them a shred of consolation, hinting that maybe, just maybe, the relationship could become possible in the future? The future lying somewhere beyond the end of this particular novel.
I'm not there in my writing yet, but I have a nasty habit of making things difficult for myself (you try writing Christian fantasy and then make a believer the bad guy...) and I'm wondering if maybe I'm overdoing it a bit. Or a lot.