Hey there seddit. Here is my story:

I've been reading up on seduction and picking up, both here an on a lot of books, and I've dealt with a lot of issues that I had, AA, choking in conversations, confidence (this was a big one for me), and I've generally improved.

Right now, my issue comes from creating attraction. I can keep girls interested and in a conversation, and generally throwing IOI's my way. I kino escalate just fine, and show the correct amount of interest to leave them following me around. However, I get stuck in this comfort zone -- I'm not really getting friendzoned, because when she doesn't escalate the attraction, I just get out of it.

But that's just it: whenever she doesn't give a clear sign of escalation, I don't really know where to go to. I get a decent amount of closes, but I feel I'm dropping the ball a LOT when the room is there. If I try to follow up on these, they seem frustrated, which just helps me drive my point home.

Now, to give some context to this, I need to add that most of my pickups are more warm approaches, friends of friends, etc. Should I try to isolate more (which I don't do often)? Since I'm usually in a group of people I mostly know, how do I make it less awkward to grab the 'new girl' away? What are your tips for creating seduction afterwards?

TL;DR:Creating comfort and rapport is easy as pie, can't seduce to save my life