I want to write another M/M contemporary romance over the Spring/Summer and I was wondering what types of stories people would like to read out there . . . No promises, of course, this is mostly to get the ball rolling . . .

Some ideas I had: (All of them would feature a slow-burn romance--since slow-burn seems to be my thing ;) )

College Based story featuring a deaf romantic interest. Written from two perspectives maybe? The deaf guy is studying Law at Otago uni and he's quite wealthy and wants to go "flatting" but he's finding it really hard to find a flat that want to take him in. He has some deaf friends, but doesn't want to live and do everything with them, he just wants to live a normal a life as possible. So, it could be there is one flat that really quickly need someone to pay the 100 bucks a week because their old flatmate ditched them and wasn't paying his rent, so the not gay flatmate just says yes to him living with them. The 'gay-but doesn't quite know for sure really yet' flatmate is ambivalent about it. He's not sure it's a good idea because neither of them know sign language and how would it work? (For example, this guy needs deaf guy to do something/watch out for something for a minute, but he doesn't hear him knocking on his door--oh the embarrassment when flatmate just flings door open . . . hehehe) anyway, the overall story would be about flatmate coming to terms with who he is and accepting a relationship that has its difficulties. Maybe there'd have to be more there--like the flatmate is actually flatting with his younger sister (instead of straight guy) who he is trying to put through college? Maybe he doesn't want her to get taken from him and given to their uncle who flatmate can't stand. . . . .
I don't know, I have a mixture of ideas flying around with this one . . . could be interesting though . . .

Overseas year abroad . . . a guy just finishes his studies in NZ and decides to take a year overseas before settling into a job. He wanted to find some work in Berlin but ended up finding some work in a small german town instead, where mostly he feels so foreign because so, so few speak English .. . There he bumps into a guy who while a little rusty, can speak English and they develop a friendship that surprises them both when it turns into something more . . . (would need more backstory and conflict -- maybe guy that left NZ was getting over something .. . )

Or, I had this weird idea sort of, of a guy who just turned thirty who has a 15 year old son. (I think the backstory is pretty obvious here, lol). He's just managing, doing okay, but pretty much has had NO love life at least nothing meaningful over the last 15 years and now that he's turning thirty, he sees he's missed out on his twenties and wants to claim some of it back. This would be the reverse coming out, not son to dad, but dad to son, lol.

Or I could follow the story of a guy who's only ambition is to put his graffiti art on every green door building in Berlin (or a part of Berlin, at least) I had this image of him tagging a building and the caretaker of the house keeps painting over it after the third time he camps out to catch him in the action -- Well, the slow attraction romance would start from there. . . . . Guess he'd be the broken soul kind of character who maybe lost his best friend to suicide? Now he's sort of lonely and just hanging to living himself? I don't know, might be too dark. This could be the backstory and the actual novel could be more 'mending' and hopeful, and hopefully romantic!!!

Thoughts . . . ?