#help a writer out
In need of advice
Thinking of posting a Stenbrough fanfiction. Would AO3 or Wattpad be a better publishing site?
Alittle question for writers (or anyone who wants to share their opinion, really!)
I’m working on a character who has this really good friend she grew close to in boarding school, and even 20 odd years later they’re still close friends. (Despite living in different countries now.)
I originally planned for them to have unacknowledged feelings for each other. It would make sense in the way that they’re both women, and they would’ve met in the 1930s/‘40s – only for the story to take place in the '50s or '60s. Plenty of reason to suppress those feelings, or at least try to ignore them.
But I wonder: how likely would it be for 2 people to not act on/confess their (mildly noticeable) mutual attraction to each other over a span of so many years? They don’t see each other much more than twice a year after boarding school (though they do call a lot), so not a lot of opportunity to start something, but I’m still not sure it’s reasonable to write their relationship as it is.
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