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keeping up the pace while connecting one character to another

Posted on 2009-Apr-10 at 11:17

Hi,
I was curious if anyone had any thoughts on how to keep the flow going for a thriller when you have to develop a love interest between two characters.

For instance my main character has to fall in love with this other character and at the same time I want to keep the tension and forward movement.

I can see that when I start to write this connection the potential for story to turn to sappy or audience may lose interest.

My thought was during the scene of main character falling in love, that there be cuts to the setup of the next action scene?

Thanks for the input!

feel your struggle

Posted on 2009-Aug-19 at 05:01 by tavares765
I can see where your problems are coming from. You don't just want your main character to fall in love with another character in like two minutes. It'll come off corny. My current story is fast paced as well and I've come up with a remedy to this issue. Instead of trying to keep your action sequences and love stoy apart you should try and meld it together. With love you need to give the audience some time to connect and "believe" in the relationship or by the time that infamous hollywood kiss comes along your audience will either be sucking their teeth or laughing (at them, which is not good). Ultimately in my story there is no hollywood kiss and that's because in action pack stories like yours there's little room for a hero to be packing guns, chasing cars and trying to play hubby all at the same time. Its just better off without it. But if you feel love is needed then I suggest that the love intrest have something to do with the plot or else all the time you took developing that love story will take away from the development of the main plot which should ALWAYS come first.

Hope you do well and that my advice was somewhat helpful. Also what kind of thriller movie is it?

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