Sometimes they need breaks away from each other. Even partners that deeply love each other will fight and disagree sometimes. No romance is perfect, and your story should reflect that. That doesn’t matter, whereas your partner being racist/misogynistic/homophobic/abusive/controlling/etc is a problem.) True love is willing to overlook unimportant little flaws (like say, your partner always moves the toothpaste to one side of the sink. ![]() You might find someone who’s amazing for you, but has flaws and things you don’t like about them. Deepen the love, make the characters find out little things they adore and some that they don’t like. Love at first sight is fine, but develop it further. Love doesn’t work itself out right off the bat. Just because someone thinks someone else is hot, doesn’t mean they’ll have a functional relationship. ![]() Have the characters interact sparsely at first, if possible, or have short interactions, then slowly have them interacting more and more and become friends/develop crushes/realize attraction. Don’t rush to the good bits, but don’t drag it out so much that it becomes boring or you’re writing excessive amounts of unnecessary action(s) to fill in the spaces. A popular tumblr post by anhumanslovestories explains: The segment of fans that think "slow burn" refers the time invested by a fan into seeing a relationship come to fruition, like when shippers of Mulder/Scully waited many chronological years for their pairing to become canon, often complain about the other camp of fans who think slow burn refers to the chronological time spent trying to get characters into a relationship, such as the millennia it might take Aziraphale/Crowley to get together even in a 6k fic. The latter type of definition is more common, although the base "amount" of investment required in those definitions ranges from 10k to over 100k, but the former is also in use. There are two main camps of "slow burn" definitions: ones based on the in-fic chronology of a relationship and ones based on the meta-level investment of a fan in the relationship. This lack of consensus among fans has led to fans of slow burn fic complaining about the term's misuse. While in one they get it on in chapter 7 (not necessarily in the good way), and then dance around each other awkwardly and guilt ridden until chapter 30, the other fic waits until the end until there's any sort of movement in the romance. I can't even offer a personal opinion on this, since my two long running stories have different pacing when it comes to the romantic sideplot. Whereas some think waiting for two chapters is a slow burn, others think chapter 10 is too fast. Much like with anything else, slowburns are subject to taste. On Tumblr, the-pen-pot made a text post which asked what the meaning of "slow burn" is and offered the following definition: Like many fannish terms, there isn't one concrete definition for what is and isn't a slow burn. In that sense, the amount of time it takes for characters in an Arranged Marriage to actually fall in love qualifies as a slow burn even though the characters are "together" for the entire fic. Slow build could be considered the literary equivalent of edging, as there are people who believe that a slow burn is more about the length of time a viewer or reader is investing in a relationship rather than the length of time it chronologically takes for a couple to get together. That is to say for some fans a longfic focused on the Zutara relationship is a slow burn, but a longfic focused on Zuko's redemption arc is slow build. Which seems to indicate that most people believe slow burn to be indicative of romance or the promise of it. ![]() As the emphasis is on the slow evolution of the relationship rather than a quick conflagration into sudden resolution, such stories may contain a lot of UST and pining until the smoldering passion eventually catches fire. Slow Burn - refers to stories featuring characters who gradually and naturally fall in love or lust before beginning a romantic or sexual relationship.
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