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The trouble with trying to write a love story is that it becomes ten times harder than usual to keep from slipping into cliche and melodrama. I have to keep hauling myself up by the scruff of the neck and smacking my own fingers with a mental ruler, as it were.

*sigh*

Cat, you had damn well better like this thing when I'm done with it.

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lanoyee.livejournal.com

That is so very true.

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snaegl.livejournal.com

Meh...don't put yourself out on my account ;-p

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edenfalling

Oh, I'm mostly complaining for the sake of complaining. In all honesty, I've spent years trying to write this story (working title "Renunciation"). I just couldn't figure out the right approach until about a month ago, and then I realized it's perfect as a present for you.

It's a meditation on honor and religion and culture clashes and the nature of virtue and stuff like that. And also a love story (one that tiptoes dangerously close to the edge of some cliches I have mocked mercilessly in my time), but neither half works without the other half to hold it up. :-)

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