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Trying to think about stakes in a romance

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Naomi K
May 02, 2016
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I'm about to write the Act One moment in a book. The book is kind of a romance. It's obviously more complicated than this, but the book is about a guy who really wants to be friends with this other guy, and he also really wants to go out with the other guy's unrequited crush. And in Acts Two and Three, other things happen that raise the stakes and put t…

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