Sensationalism: Virtue or Vice?

I wonder what it was you saw when you first saw me. I wonder that the being you saw; the imaginary being you saw wasn't really me. You made excuses; but nothing could change the fact I could never really be that thing you saw. It broke you; it killed me. You can't have known how it felt to have an imaginary version of you that was better than you engraved on you. I can't do this anymore....

One day, when I get round to writing a book and being published, the book will be filled with little passages like this. I think this one belongs in the huge break up scene where the man leaves his wife at their tenth wedding anniversary after a tumultuous marriage. Yes the premise of it is building in me head. I'll bullet point it.

• Main character: Rather handsome, very content with his life. 
• He doesn't aspire to much
• He's a fisherman, a poor satar player or a writer. Yes he's a writer.
• He's happy as long as he's got food on his table, booze on lock and company at night, which he pays for.
• Female Lead: Exceedingly beautiful, bordering on goddess.
• Has all the qualities desirable in a lady.
• Has suitors from here to Calcutta
• Her family's rather wealthy but the wealth is slipping away.
• She's under pressure to marry well and improve the family situation.
• But then she meets our writer who's also a fisherman.
• Yes that's how it happens. She's on a date with the man she's supposed to marry and she falls into the lake. Our writer who's also a fisherman jumps in and saves her.
• He returns her to her gentleman and is on his way.
• She locates him in town
• He dismisses her thanks and goes about his way.
• But he can't forget her face.
• He's falls deeply in love with her.
• She finds out that he's been writing under a pseudonym and thinks him immensely talented.
• He tries to make more money to earn enough to pursue her.
• She demands more.
• Her parents disapprove and kick her out.
• She resents him for this.
• She moves in with him
• He works hard to support her wild ways to earn her love
• He becomes quite successful
• It's not enough for her
• He finds that the richer he becomes the greater her expenses.
• He becomes depressed and paranoid.
• He believes that she's cheating on him.
• We're unsure about this.
• At their tenth anniversary party he confronts her
• She denies it.
• He loses his temper and divorces her.
• He goes searching for his childhood friend, who should have been introduced at the beginning of the bullet points.
• His ex wife cashes her half of the property and moves on like nothing happened. 
• He finds his childhood friend in a lowly position and lives with her returning to his original profession as a writer fisherman.
• Did I mention that he's a war veteran. 

I enjoyed this but it's really a load of bollocks.

Happy Days
Afam.