If there is one type of scene that I dislike writing compared to the others…it’s a breakup scene.

Almost every romance has one. After all, love is often put under pressure and it can be tempting for two lovers to feel conflicted about staying together.

But a breakup scene has to feel as though the hero and heroine are never going to get back together. The reader has to believe that there is a very real chance that they will never see each other again – and will certainly never kiss again.

And that is tough! Especially when I’ve usually spent the last…oh, say 40,000 words trying to convince the reader that they should absolutely be together!

As an author, I also don’t want to make the breakup scene so believable that the eventual renewal of affection doesn’t feel right. For example, I don’t want me hero to be genuinely cruel to my heroine, otherwise why on earth would she go back to him?!

This means that the breakup scene is often the hardest to write in the whole book.

And yet I do enjoy them! I have said this before and I’ll say it again: my worst day with my writing is always far better than my best day at my previous day jobs – no shade to my day jobs, I just adore writing!

So that’s one of the reasons that I keep writing romance; because sometimes, even I don’t know how my characters are going to get together…and then they do.