by Karen
Question Hello! I’m writing a book about a rape victim and her budding relationship with her neighbor. They had a really rough first impression with him accidentally entering her apartment and her threatening him with a sword over it. They decide to never speak again but end up having to talk in various situations and slowly get past it and became friends and are now developing feelings for one another. They're college students and have other things going on in their lives besides each other but the plot mostly revolves around how their relationship evolves. I plan to have the climax be the heroine having the courage to tell the hero about her experience and they get together. I also want to end it kind of bitter sweetly with the heroine still not being completely cured of her trauma despite being able to fall in love again. My Question is: Is this enough of a plot? I've been doing research and I see that most romance stories have something that keeps the hero and heroine from being together as the main conflict or an external plot going on in the background like a crime investigation or goal they're both pursuing, but most of what happens in my story are very mundane situations. I’m worried I will bore my readers but I don’t want to overshadow my main plot of the heroine's road to recovery and her relationship with the hero with an extra plot line thrown in for drama.