Check your speedEveryone loves a love story. But this apparently simple tale may be the most difficult form to write well, for a number of reasons. First, love is the only genre where you need not one, but two equally well-defined main characters. You know how hard it is to give depth to one character. With two, you not only have to detail their weaknesses and needs, you have to track a goal for each character that won't kill the story drive. Second, the love story has a plot where surprise must come out of intimacy. This is different from almost every other major genre. Most genres, like detective and action, have big, sensational reveals. Big reveals are easy. But with love, you don't get that luxury. You have to dig deep into the psyches of both characters and find the subtle differences and hidden agendas that even the closest couple will keep from each other. Third, love is a story form that should naturally take ten minutes. Boy and girl meet, they feel a spark, the rest is negotiation. But you have to fill two hours, which is why most love stories don't have enough plot. Finally, you have to make the audience not only see the love but feel it, want it, even demand that it happen. If that isn't hard enough, your characters must want it, but fear it and avoid it as well. It's not easy.
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