The DH, my fierce beta reader, had hammered me with this one particular question: “What made the hero attracted to the heroine?”
He had been a loyal beta reader and critic to my MS for quite sometime. Every time he critiqued the characters or the plot, it always stung; it was enough to retaliate by not cooking him a meal for a day. Mweh, I wished he could write his own novel to see how difficult it is to write fiction.
“Oh, I know that. The chemistry thing,” I said. “She’s pretty and funny.”
His eyebrows lowered giving me that salted fish look. “Oh, no, no. That’s not enough.” He wagged his finger at me. “Think again. What makes the hero attracted to the heroine? I haven’t seen it yet.”
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