HOW TO WRITE BEST FRIENDS TO LOVERS ROMANCE (that feels realistic)

YOU GUYS ASKED FOR IT: how to write an ACTUALLY REALISTIC best-friends-to-lovers romance!! In this video we go over the KEY components to writing an adorable and believable story that gracefully brings two characters from the platonic world of friendship to the romantic world of total cuteness.

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[dellieborton]

This is gold. My fantasy trilogy has a major romance subplot and over the 3 books they are going from enemies to friends to lovers because I can't get enough angst and slow burn 😂.

[meganmccullough]

GIVE ME THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER! (But there must be a lot of heartbreak somewhere in the middle, haha.)

[Marketing-mdhr]

Notes
•Let the awkwardness and weird feelings sit. The charestars should be like "oh this is weird."

•Know before hand if the charectars love is mutule.

•Bases How did they meet, how did the friendzone happen, was it intetional or not. Why did it happen.

•Setup When does the one charectar realise they have feelings for the other

•The aha moment
Your protagonist has to realise they have feelings for there bestfriemd

•Conflict
The protagonist Torn between there safety and expressing feelings
•Decistions As much as your charecters font want to make a choice they have to and they do.

Resolution
Love is expressed amd either the protagonsit is excepted or rejected

[iviebrooks]

ITS MY TROPE!!!


Love this so much. My favorite, favorite, FAVORITE trope is definitely best friends to lovers because it's ADORABLE!!! And to already know someone so well without having to have that really awkward stage in dating... *sighs* Anyway, love this video! <3 <3

[LorenaAMachado]

You just won my heart at “I know I could talk about Laurie and Amy but... I don’t want to”

[edenmckinley]

I always like cute, wholesome romance better. One of my favorite tropes that not a lot of authors do is when there is a love triangle and one or more of the characters is not conscious of it. Two of the characters are meant to be together, and the third character involved in the romance is a close friend to those two characters. When the third character finally realizes what's going on, they get excited that their two best friends are in love and they actually try to do some matchmaking. Instead of being a sore loser about being stuck in a love triangle, they become endearing through their mature behavior. Mutual friends playing matchmaker is both hilarious and adorable, and while it may be a little Hallmark-y, I love it.

[davecenker]

As a romantic fiction author I've enjoyed each of these videos that delves into the development of a warm and fuzzy relationship. So, yeah, warm and fuzzy, Hallmark-esque style ending for me, thank you very much! I also (unabashedly) admit that many a Hallmark and Lifetime movie has sparked that flame of inspiration, along with your videos, of course ;)

[sophia]

Hi Abbie! I'm 16 and an aspiring writer. I've been writing stories since the first grade, but I stopped when I started High School because although my friends and teachers told me I was very talented, they didn't think it would be a good career. Which I agreed with because of the fact that I could fail and then have no money. But recently I discovered your channel a few days ago and you are such an inspiration! I didn't think that writing and watching videos about how to write could make me so happy but it does. Especially since I'm going through a lot right now and writing is my escape. Thank you so much for making these videos and making everything so easy to understand. I am so glad I found your channel cause I finally have that overwhelming excitement when I think about writing that I haven't felt in years.
You made me want to write again❤

[Fleshdothboiled]

I watched halfway through the video and now have two bestie characters that are basically the same person cloned. I love it

[riverbright]

HOW DID YOU KNOW WE WANTED THIS? THIS WAS AN UNEXPECTEDLY PLEASANT SURPRISE

[redshot]

1:13
1) Embrace the weirdness
3:28
2) The Foundation
4:39
3) setup
6:04
4) ah ha moment
7:29
5) conflict
8:25
6) the decision
9:02
7) Resolution

[theta-mage]

I'm cool with both, heartbreak and happily ever after, as long as it's well-written and makes *me* feel more unreal than the story.

[saphirarose]

My favorite friends to Lovers is Anne Shirley and Gilbert because Anne refuses Gilbert’s attempts to be more than just friends but then they still get together in the end 🥰

[emeraldg]

I love how this trop actually happened to me (friends for 10 years and dating for 4 months and counting) yet I still need to find help on how to write it. Thank you for all the great tips!

[NorahVarkey]

I was too late finding this video. My current WIP centres around this same trope. I was scrolling down YouTube for a how-to-write best friends-to-lovers trope when I told myself "Wait, Abbie might have it!" I found this and it helped me so much! Thank you!

[shadyspot]

My current plan for my book series is that protag saves his best friend at the end of book one and, at the start of book two, they both start noticing the shift between best friend to love interest.

[TheSamcrittenden]

Oof
I’m here because I’m actually living an unrequited love plot IRL and it suuucks. She’s had a few “best friends” do the same thing and break her heart in the end, so it adds a layer of complexity to confessing.

Some days I wish I could lay my head in her lap and just talk while she plays with my hair, and our friendship is so intimate already that it’s on the very verge of that. We’ll fall asleep in the same bed watching movies all night and it makes me want to die inside.

Sometimes I’ll bring up how I feel and I can see it upsets her so I back down and say that we’ll talk about it later, but we never do.

The last time we went through the cycle she said she couldn’t be what I want her to be, but I just want her to be herself. I want her to be exactly who and what she is. I just wish she looked at me the same as the guys she tells me about.

Is that selfish of me? I honestly hate myself.

[kiyaansstufff]

Even as an 11 year old and being very young, I have had the desire to write a book and your video has really helped me in this because your explanation is very straight-foreward and clear. So, your video and your language at speaking during your video has guided me a lot.
Thanks!❤

[themelissamazza]

Ah yes... Amy and Laurie. Honestly it could have worked but I think it’s missing that foundation aspect that we get in the beginning with him and Jo.

[soytuya]

I am writing something where the protagonists were childhood friends and in the first act, they confess to each other because one of them is going off to college and they're going to be separated for longer than they have since they were toddlers. They end up separated due to a plane crash and the female MC goes looking for her love interest because the actual apocalypse happens and no one is looking for him. It's a really reflective story, mostly focusing on why the MC fell in love with her friend and a little bit of the hurts they caused each other because she lives with regret for not confessing sooner.
Anyway, I hope I do well. Your videos really help so much and get me excited about writing and reading.