![]() The Tattered Man by Aurette I was once asked to write a Marriage Law Challenge fic by someone who loves a sad tale. Voldemort wins, Hermione leaves, Severus waits. He had been her teacher for seven years and had never seen this girl give up at anything. Splintered and Broken by A plus He had watched as the thin wood snapped across her knee with a violence he had not known she possessed. An owl brings a letter of change, but is it a good change? Canon Compliant, disregards Epilogue. But the war ended last May, and Severus is now his own man. Inkspots by mezzosangue When you are a double spy with two masters, no one is a friend. And when one unwittingly interferes with time, what one expects may not be what time finds… There is no going back the only way is to go forward. Pride of Time by Anubis Ankh Hermione quite literally crashes her way back through time by roughly twenty years. Hermione only wanted to learn Healing she discovers that Professor Snape is a human being after all, and his actions dramatically shape the course of the war as events unfold. Pet Project by Caeria Hermione overhears something she shouldn’t concerning Professor Snape and decides that maybe the House-elves aren’t the only ones in need of protection.įALLING FURTHER IN by kaz2 Hermione begins to learn something of the man behind the dark sarcasms of the classroom.Ĭhasing The Sun by Loten AU, from Order of the Phoenix onwards. Self Slain Gods on Strange Altars by scumblackentropy What do you want me to say, Granger? That you are mine and I am yours? You are. *scampers off to fetch list to all her fave Snamiones in no particular order* My Snamione loving heart is all aflutter. Give too much up between the lovers too soon, and the reasons they can’t be together are boring, not bubbling with anticipation.Girl, you came to the right place. Unresolved tension is key to pacing slow burns. The character should think, “Did that mean what I think it meant?” and ponder it for the next 50 pages. There should be innuendo that can be easily misconstrued. The reader should want these two together so bad that they can’t stop reading and think about them when they aren’t reading. The intimacy and desire between these potential lovers needs to build steadily for the first two-thirds of the novel at least. The author needs to make them ache for each other, causing us readers to ache for them as well. Getting the scent of their hair and not being able to touch them. ![]() Brushing up against each other and feeling the sear on their skin. Have them alone in a room where they are close enough to kiss, but get interrupted. In this case, the author has written a boring book.Ĭomplicated relationships leave lots of room for unresolved tension between the characters. If we don’t care about who these characters are as people, then the slow burn is ineffectual because we don’t have the patience to wait out their building tension. Also, we get a lot more time with each character, since the couple usually spends less time on the page together than in love at first sight or fated mates. We want the best for them and for them to be happy. We have fallen in love with each of these people. Part of the reason the reader wants these people together is because we care deeply about who they are. Deep CharacterizationĪ crucial element to the slow burn is well developed characters. For the sake of this article, I’m going to be primarily talking about two person relationships. Slow burns can appear in all kinds of fiction, but romance is renowned for its mastery of this kind of prolonged building of emotion. ![]() How do authors do it? There are a few crucial elements every slow burn needs.Ī slow burn is when the romantic attraction between characters builds slowly over the course of a novel or series. These are all the slow burn in action, making you simmer. That feeling when you’re reading a book where you want to throw it across the room because these two idiots can’t see how perfect they are for each other and won’t smash their faces together already.
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