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493 – Romances With Multiple POVs

The Mythcreant Podcast

CHAPTER

Exploring Emotional Depth in Romantic Narratives

This chapter explores the complexities of romantic relationships in literature, highlighting the emotional depth and sexual tension between characters. It critiques common narrative tropes that disrupt character connections and examines the effects of perspective shifts on understanding these relationships.

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Speaker 1
No,
Speaker 3
I didn't even mention it. We learn that they're Catholic, but they've just been so horny throughout the entire book. That feels like an afterthought. Like, it almost feels like they dialed the horniness back after they started dating, which they do halfway through the book. Like, it's not really a will they, won't they? then the author would have to justify why these two people living in like the modern world who are like sweating all over themselves at the sight of the other person are not like banging. That's
Speaker 1
the sort of thing where if you're hitting exactly the wish fulfillment goal you want, like for a very specific audience that can work, but like for anyone else, the same feeling repeated over and over again is gonna get repetitive, even if it makes sense in character. It's just like having a character who's angry all the time, is just constantly angry and that's the only emotion they have. That's just boring, gets repetitive.
Speaker 3
Yeah, they should have feelings about each other that aren't just animal lust. That's my hot take. I mean, you can have that, but then you might not be writing a romance.
Speaker 1
I've also noticed, this is more in client stories than in published ones, is you often will have the protagonist who start off together and get their different POVs as their romance starts, but the story splits them up and okay great now we're on the continent A and B situation.
Speaker 3
Yeah that's also not good.
Speaker 1
And that can happen with any two characters, that's not just a romance thing, but the point of doing this was to give the two lovebirds their own POVs so that we could understand their romance better and that is ruined if you then split them up in addition to the normal problem of having completely separate POVs for most of the story.

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