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Cinders said:
Three words: Don't try to.
Love is the second most popular thing that everyone wants to write about. It's trumped only by pain. A good writer shouldn't focus on the emotions, she should focus on the story. I'm not saying that you can't go out and write a romance story, all I'm saying is don't focus on the emotion you want it to inspire in other people.
Generally speaking, the author begins a story with a clear idea of what she wants that story to be. As she writes, however, the story makes its own decision about what it wants to be. In this way, writing a story is very much like raising a child. You'll try and fight the story and beat it into what you think it should be, but in the end, you have to let the story be itself.
Romance doesn't come from flowery words or cliches crammed down the readers throats. Romance comes from situations. Write how your characters act around each other, not how they feel. Write what they do for each other. Do their words contradict their actions (as our words often do)?
Rather than thinking, "how can I write about love?" ask yourself, "What is love? Why do people fall in love? What do they do when they're in love? Do they act ridiculous and embarrassed, or are they in denial? What's the difference between a person's first love, and her second love? What makes this love story worth telling?"
Was that helpful at all? If not, I can provide contrasting examples for you.
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