A lot romance tutorials kind of read the same...
Anyone have a favorite romance tutorial they would like to share with me? I'm trying to write a romance to challenge myself since all I write is horror and meme-y stuff. I'm trying to write a vampire romance novel right now... I find it so hard and apparently everyone else finds them so easy to write for some reason.
Really, I think the entire thing about certain genres being hard for some people and easy for others is as simple as whether or not it aligns to your preferred style.
A writing style really amounts to a set of sub-skills within your ability to write, and your preferred style is simply the set of skills you are most comfortable with using.
My advice would be to add romance as a sub-genre / sub-plot of a bigger story which fits more within your preferred style.
EDIT: Another piece of advice for romance plots, one of the things that help the most in making a romance plot work for the readers is how much they identify with the characters. You hear the term sometimes. The truth is, in most genres, you don't necessarily need to identify with the characters to enjoy it. Romance, however, is different. It is the one genre where identifying with the characters is almost a requirement.
People have ideas about what you can do to get the reader to identify with the characters. The dirty little secret is that there is 1 brute-force method that works 100% of the time. That 1 method is time. If you slow-roll the romantic sub-plot in the background of the story, only advancing it by baby steps at a time, you can make any pairing truly resonate with the readers.
My #1 favorite romance story is Shinichi and Ran in Detective Conan. The reason why this one works so darn well is exactly what I just said. Time.
Ironically, the approach of writing romantic plots into media that seems more geared toward younger audiences actually makes it resonate more. This is because the writing you would do for younger audiences coincidentally forces you to take things slow and keep things chaste a lot longer than you would with writing for an older audience. It adds that time factor that I just mentioned.