I Don’t Know How To Write About Love
Love and happiness may get views and reads–but it doesn’t have to be your niche.

How am I supposed to write about romantic love when I don’t know what it is? Of course, being a fiction writer, I am usually writing about things I have no experience with but I can’t seem to write about love. I can write about murder, stalkers, and mythical creatures but love? I can’t seem to figure it out.
Mostly when I write, I have to put myself in the perspective of my characters. I need to feel it to write it, but I don’t feel love. When I think of love, I think of pain. I have been traumatized by what I thought love was, so my every attempt turns into pain, betrayal, and heartbreak.
I was once a hopeless romantic, but my experiences have made me cynical… I think I do believe in it; however, I don’t ever think I will ever find it.
I think for a long time love became my life’s mission, for a long time I thought I needed the love of a man to be complete. So when I finally got it, I was confused by what I thought it would feel like and what it ended up being in reality.
It was painful but it taught me an important lesson, to be loved means to be accepted for all you are, love is not supposed to change you so completely that you don’t even recognize yourself.
As much as I try and try, I can’t write about things that make you want to close your eyes and breathe it all in. There are so many talented poets and writers who write about what it means to love and the warmth you feel when you find it, unfortunately, I am not one of them. But I think I am starting to be okay with that.
Everyone wants to get their writing out there and increase views and reads, you can be an incredible writer but without an audience, there would no one to read your work.
1. Find your audience. Find your niche.
I have tried and tried to write about love but I have started to come to terms with the fact that it doesn’t have to be your genre. Write about what you feel comfortable with and find your audience! Yes, people love to read about happy and heartwarming content, but people also love to read about things that relate to them.
People want to know they aren’t alone in their experiences — I do.
I think if I had found these stories while I was in my abusive relationship, I would have realized sooner that I was being manipulated and abused.
Your experiences can help other people and that’s an amazing thing.
2. Find your own style.
I have struggled with this point, I spent a lot of my life criticizing my own writing to the extent of giving up because I didn’t feel like my writing was good enough.
I recently started writing again and I am on a mission to stop beating myself up and comparing my work to that of others.
I realized how personal writing is, how intimate it is. Your individual voice may not be like your favorite writers but that’s the beauty of writing, everyone has their own voice and there is an audience out there for you. People you relate to you and the story you are telling through your voice.
Don’t be disheartened. Don’t give up.
One of the biggest mistakes I made in my writing journey was giving up, I used write so often and then I started to read more and more and became so upset at how far I was from the writings of those I admired.
I was only 17 and I had already given up, looking back now, I regret it immensely.
Don’t give up, you have something no-one else has, your own voice and your own story. I honestly believe that the more you practice and strive, the better you will get.
