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Writing Romances with Power Dynamics

How to do this without contributing to problematic rape culture?

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Jan 10, 2020
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Today’s question (excerpted from a longer message): [The romance] starts while he's her boss and I have to figure out how much he should suffer in the story for that?

Ah.

[content note for this post: discussion of problematic relationships, rape culture]

So for those not caught up on what this question is asking about — there are a lot of active conversati…

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