Chemistry minus zero and counting

What do you guys do when your characters have no chemistry? Picture Donna Summers singing, "I need some luke warm stuff baby this evening..." You can't poke em, you can't prod em, and just like real people you can't make them spark unless they just seem to want to. I got a couple of characters right now and I swear to you they couldn't care less about each other. But I'm about eighty percent finished with no option of starting over and I can't figure out how to get these two all aboard the love train.

Someone once told me that there's something inherently wrong with the story when the characters just aren't making that love connection but I don't have time for all over fixes so do you think gratuitous sex might do the trick? The principle being the more they make it the more they like it. I think it works for real men, why not fictional ones?

Actually, I think that what it really comes down to is that I don't have chemistry with these characters so how can they have chemistry with each other? What I need to do is have a love fest with these two until we are all so happy to be alive, even if it's just on paper, that we're all ready to have a fictional menge a troix. (Or however the heck those wacky French spell that.) Then I'll be ready to crank this baby out like I would any other baby. Painful and bloody and something that I'll probably live to regret later.

Song of the day--Hot Stuff, Donna Summers. I need some hot love baby tonight.

Quote of the day--Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
---Billy Crystal



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