I like reading about love, Lila, if it's rooted in comradeship.  I like reading about friendship first, that's more important to me.  LotR's strong on friendship, that's why I like it so much.  I would put couples into your story-- any writer writes well about what's fun for him or her.  NazgulNumber10, you know best what your story needs.  Some stories are about a lone character's struggle against him/herself in difficult circumstances-- I've written a few like that, although the story I'm working on now has couples, a stoic young couple just gaining each other's trust and a wildly romantic but frusterated old couple.  I've been feeling more comradely lately.  When I was in a loner mood, I wrote loner-confronts-the-ugly-truth stories.  I go back and forth.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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