Ugh--see that's what I was afraid of, and it freaks me out too.
I remember being in a creative writing class in college and I had a piece (supernatural horror, of course--eventually sent to the trunk, although one or two characters might be worth reviving eventually) with a female protagonist, a male best friend, and a married couple, and my teacher tried to talk me into turning at least one of those relationships into a love triangle. My response: "HAHAHAHA--no."
Anyways, what I want to know is if that pressure would hold if the author and/or protagonist were male. Would an editor try to shove in a romance if that were the case? I wonder, and I am worried about having to fight for my lack of romance in certain WIPs. Hell, I actually made a character gay once so my workshop would stop saying, "They're going to get together, right?"
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I remember being in a creative writing class in college and I had a piece (supernatural horror, of course--eventually sent to the trunk, although one or two characters might be worth reviving eventually) with a female protagonist, a male best friend, and a married couple, and my teacher tried to talk me into turning at least one of those relationships into a love triangle. My response: "HAHAHAHA--no."
Anyways, what I want to know is if that pressure would hold if the author and/or protagonist were male. Would an editor try to shove in a romance if that were the case? I wonder, and I am worried about having to fight for my lack of romance in certain WIPs. Hell, I actually made a character gay once so my workshop would stop saying, "They're going to get together, right?"