Tension between the characters. Tension that spans the broadest range of the spectrum. It really is the skeleton on which you flesh out your story in my opinion. It may sound easy, but as a fledgling writer myself, I know how hard it is to convey a level of interaction/attraction between two opposing characters.
Also, and I don't know whether you've heard this before, but you do the best UST. Even though in the end it happily is RST, I find myself going back to the beginning chapters of say, Lay Me lLow, just to lap up all the....pushing and pulling that's going on.
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Date: 2011-08-14 11:33 pm (UTC)Also, and I don't know whether you've heard this before, but you do the best UST. Even though in the end it happily is RST, I find myself going back to the beginning chapters of say, Lay Me lLow, just to lap up all the....pushing and pulling that's going on.