The Trope

The two constants in Maggie's life have always been books and her anxiety. A close third is that she's been in love with her best friend's older brother her whole life, not that she's ever told him. She prefers to keep her thoughts of love and desire in the stories she writes, and that works out well for her... until her readers find her first novel unbelievable and her characters devoid of any real chemistry.

So, what's a writer with only fictional experience supposed to do? Fake it, of cou...