How to Write a Strong Love Interest

How do you write a love interest? I’m hitting ya with the answer today! That’s right, I’m sharing tips on how to write a realistic love interest, including how to make your characters multidimensional, how to write flawed characters, how to write attractive characters, and more! So if you’ve been searching for information on how to write a love interest, how to write a relationship, or how to write a compelling romance, I’ve got the details! Number five is probably the most important point, so you need to stick around! 🤩

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[Nanthecowdog]

My rule for a love interest: if they're not interesting enough or fleshed out enough to carry their own story, they're not a good love interest.

[NoahWeisbrod]

I think insta-romances are common because people read or watch Romeo and Juliet without realizing it's supposed to be an example of an unhealthy relationship.

[miriamwilson]

My friend wrote a romance and main characters fell in love on the second page. It was bad.

[Juhani]

Absolutely agree. Also I don't care what the guy looks like, in fact make the villain sexy as hell and make him kill puppies for fun and then make the male love interest average, but have him be super funny and chivalrous and sensitive; I'll hate the bad guy even though he's pretty and love the average guy because he makes me laugh. I think too many writers don't get that :) We don't read because we want to see abs... we read because we want a connection with characters, a connection you can't get from watching movies.

[jessicah]

I read an awful book where the writer commented on just how gorgeous the female lead was on nearly every page. Everyone who saw her was left dumbstruck by her beauty. But, of course, she hated it. She insta-hated anyone who noticed or said anything about her looks yet she was described as always putting on skin tight and revealing clothes and adding a perfect smokey eye and red lip. Character in novel: “Wow, you could be a model!” Female protagonist: “Omfg! How annoying! Someone else sayings I’m beautiful! Life is pain...”. 😒

[JessieZimmer]

I know this has nothing to do with your video - which is great - but I'm having crazy hair envy right now. Your hair is just super duper pretty.

[patricknull]

I couldn't help but smile when you were describing a man as this sexy wealthy guy because I thought of "50 shades of Gray." Yuck!

[ajuntapall]

Everytime you say "don't do this" it makes me want to build such a character, but with believable reasons for them to be that way. xD

[inkella]

5. DEVELOP A CONNECTION. FALLING IN LOVE IS WHEN you find someone with whom you have a deep and profound connection. you meet the one person who understands and cherises you more than anyone else. you understand and cherish them in return. i fell in love when i met someone who truly got me. i felt i could be most vulnerable self around them without fear of judgement. this is a feeling that needs to translate into your writing. the first thing to do is create a series of incidents that help your characters form a connection. you have to give your protagonist a reason to believe that this person gets me and has my back. the easiest way to do this is to set up situations where both your protagonist and love interest are forced to be raw and vulnerable around one another. they should go through experiences that bring them closer together and builds trust between them. this is really important because developing a deep connection is what gets readers rooting for the relationship.

[saandyyvh]

Could they SEEM perfect? But they are on only putting on a façade to appeal to others? Climax is their breakdown/relevation?

[youraverageBAMF]

"the nerdy male hero who's in love with the beautiful, charitable, supermodel genius, no one's gonna buy that."
The entire anime & light novel industry: GASP
Roasted

[lohart]

I love when authors make the main characters a 11/10 and then later one in the series they do a point of view with different characters and they see the old main characters and they're like "attractive" but not as attractive as the person they're dating. It just shows that she author knows beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I like that

[eugenemobile]

Jenna, we need you in this country to slap some romance 'writers' we need you here now. Our romance books here are uninteresting and generic af.

[synflwr]

I usually just pair two characters who I’ve already developed and see how that goes. Sometimes it’s a super fun and romantic power couple, sometimes they’re complete goofballs, and sometimes it’s toxic and a super flawed relationship. This is my go to story romance method.

[MyLittleWorld]

First of all: I love your videos, they are enormously helpful for me.

Secondly...I certainly have written underdeveloped romances before. What can I say? I'm turning 20 next month and started writing years ago. It's not as if I have a ton of life experience even now, much less back then. 
However, once someone told me he loved me after we've known each other for a total of three days (in a TEXT MESSAGE at that), I've certainly become a lot more careful when pacing a romance. And about who I give my phone number. 

So...as you said in another video, I think part of it comes down to life experience.

[maaderllin]

The tip I'm currently using to make sure the "love interest" is fully rounded: They are both POV characters that are the love interest of each other.
I don't think it creates a guarantee, since some POV characters are sometimes made as cardboard figures acting as "pants" for the reader but well... I'll try to make sure this doesn't happen :P

[redgeoblaze]

my main character is a DenTyr, which is their word for dark elf. I'm going to put in a love interest who knows how to fight and is a great compliment to the main character's up close fighting style. she'll enter the story with a description of a conventionally sub par looking woman, then say "In other words. she's absolutely stunning" because DenTyr have their own culture, and even anatomy, and it has to show. they express love in similar, but subtly different ways than humans do. or even other Tyr species

[hannahedithrose]

how do you write a love story if you've never been in love?

[swimmingskies]

This video was dedicated to Ginny Weasley and J.K. Rowling.
Seriously, she didn't bother adding Ginny to half the plot so she didn't half enough devlopment to show she went from fanmade OC to badass, sporty, chick.

[Ana-btqq]

But if i write my female character who looks exactly like you then she would be flawlessly beautiful 😍