For romance writers, we all know about those tropes: secret babies, arranged marriages, friends to lovers and so forth. All of these are great elements to stories, however, too many author make HUGE mistakes when they write their romances. They simply make the ENTIRE story about the trope.
That is a problem.
Let me explain.
If you make your entire story about that single trope, the story becomes repetitive. Your story has to keep coming back to the same point over and over again, just from different angles. At some point, your readers are going to just get bored. Frankly, there are only so many ways you can say the same thing.
What we really want you to see is to just use that trope as a small part of your bigger story. If you want to give us a regular contemporary romance, let's say you set it in the corporate world and the two characters are fighting for the same job. Not anything overly fancy but you get the idea. Now, we can throw in the "secret baby" part but maybe just hide a pregnancy knowing that might screw up the corporate plot line. Get the idea? It is just a piece of the puzzle.
Again, when you think about those tropes you see editors talk about what they like, this DOES NOT mean they want you to write the trope. Just remember that.
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