Marie Brennan on Love Triangles

[meganbmoore]

swan_tower, author of the awesome feminist fantasy duology Doppelganger and Warrior and Witch, has posted an article on love triangles here.

My opinion on 99% of the blasted things is fairly well documented, but this is interesting(make it really necessary or I'm gone, make it the main conflict and kill me now, have it there just for the angst and get chunked against something, and in all cases, there had better be something compelling to keep me going.)  I particularly like this part:

It might seem all dramatic and heroic to have one of your candidates die nobly at the climax of the story, but overwhelmingly readers want the heroine to make up her own damn mind. In other words, don’t cheese out of your own conflict; step up and take responsibility for developing your characters, and make them make the hard choices.