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Aragon


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Permanent Index: A Caustic Guide On How Not To Write Romance

A guide on all the common mistakes you find in bad online romantic fiction.


Part One: Three Horrible Mistakes To Avoid When Writing Romance ("Why are they in love", "That is not how humans work", and "Why are they acting like children").

Part Two: Common Mistakes When Writing Romance (The "Twilight Male Character" stereotype).

Part Three: Another Horrible Mistake To Avoid When Writing Romance (The "Tsundere").

Part Four: "Hell is Empty" -- Another Mistake To Avoid When Writing Romance (The "Filler").

Part Five: It Breaks My Heart: The Greatest Mistake when Writing Romance (The "Harem Comedy", Part One).

Part Six: Harem Comedies, or How I Hate your Waifu (The "Harem Comedy", Part Two).

May
12th
2025

Like a Dog Lying in the Corner · 8:27pm May 12th

When I was a little kid, I obsessed over the idea of identity, of personality, as an imaginary concept, as a coping mechanism against evil. Twenty-seven years later, I saw my own fears reflected in an essay by Jorge Luis Borges, which, admittedly, gave a lot of legitimacy to those childish lil’ delusions of mine. 

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i dont know why i read your romance guides when i write porn and i especially dont like harem stuff, but here i am.

and fuck, man, I can drag a sex scene out for thousands of words, but anything else is a massive pain.

It's like when I'm writing, I have all of the plot points arraged in my head, and I'm just linking them all together as fast as possible. With porn, it's about the journey, with adventure, I already know that the end of the story is going to involve Tinker and Polaris narrowly escaping the cold war naval outpost by repairing a forgotten airship just in time before the big monster catches up to them, so I just rush my writing to get there as soon as possible.

Where otherwise, I'm dragging a scene out until my balls hurt because why stop at just one round? It's annoying. anyway the melatonin kicked in like an hour ago and I'm alf asleep and the wireless keyboard I use on the living room comuter here sucks huge butt so I am goiung to go to bed but youy are a very cool writer mr aragorn

hi ara! how's it goin :)

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In that case, may I point you towards this https://www.fimfiction.net/story/545869/pink-is-your-color. It was heavily inspired by one of Mr.Numbers fics and I've been told it's some of my best work.

Thank you for your time. :)

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That's really flattering actually! But I'm going to be honest, I always have a horrible time reading pony horror. If the horsies are sad or suffering I just get super bummed out; it's why I mostly read horror books that ain't based on anything. I'm sure this makes sense emotionally, somehow.

I'll check some of your other work though!

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Aragon will you pretty please read my horror fic and give me your thoughts on it? I admire you a lot as a writer and your approval would mean the world to me.

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