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“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” – Eleanor Hubbard
October is here! October is such a fun month. For one, it’s cooling down and I need a cool down after the hot summer. I get to decorate my front lawn as a graveyard. I like to get in the spirt of Halloween. When my boys were younger, I loved going around the neighborhood and Trick or Treating with them. Now, they help me pass out candy.
Last month was Suicide Prevention Month and I participated in the Hope, Honor, Heal Virtual 5K walk to bring awareness to the topic. I encourage anyone who is hurting to reach out for help. October is Breast Cancer awareness month so if I find another Virtual 5K, I’m supporting.
Question for you: What causes have you supported lately? I’d love hear about them.
It’s Leaf Peeping season in New England. What’s Leaf Peeping? It’s an informal term were people go on foliage tours. In the US, the foliage is especially vibrant in New England and the Mid-Atlantic to Midwest states. I used to live in NH and I loved seeing the leaves change. As a kid loved jumping in big, heaping leaf piles and I didn’t care how dirty I got.
Fess up: who LOVED jumping in leaf piles when they were a kid?. ALSO: If you have any leaf peeping images and would like to share them, I’ll highlight them in my NOVEMBER Romance LOVE newsletter
Well, my struggle is Halloween COVID style. Do I give out candy? Do I not? Halloween in LA County is “not recommended.” Still, I need a sense of fun. I need to just the littlest of something to spread hope and joy in this joyless time. The struggle is real.
Which leads me to paranormal romance. “Paranormal” is one of the most popular subgenres of Romance. So, what’s the appeal? Why is it so popular?
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Romance blends a lot of genres into the romance drama, making it a very flexible subgenre. You can have science fiction, horror, gothic, and even fantasy. Heroes can be vampires, zombies, ghosts, witches, and even werewolves – and that’s where the challenge comes in. (Appeal #1) Writing a traditional “villain” like a vampire, as a romantic hero. Everyone loves a well-written anti-hero, and villains such as vampires and werewolves embody that.
With paranormal romance you can create your world for the characters, or they can operate in the traditional world. But, like Star Trek (trust me here) the appeal (#2) is that you can write a story that comments on the world’s current topics using an alternative setting, and inspire people to think about the world around them. Your anti-hero can by broody and moody, and still have appeal because that’s the nature of the supernatural world around them.
Paranormal romance has its roots in Gothic romance which started around 1764 with the “Castle of Otrano.” The hallmarks of a gothic romance include an isolated, vulnerable heroine, a dark hero, and supernatural elements that can be explained in everyday happenings, such as a curse or an omen.
And since Paranormal romance is still is a romance, the promise of “hope” is always there. There will be a happy ending for our anti-hero (vampire, etc..), and as readers we can say we got deliciously lost in a paranormal fantasy and escaped the real world – for a little bit.
Question for you: What’s the appeal of a paranormal romance for you? Do you prefer the vampire stories? Witches? Werewolves?
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A ghost's love for a woman. Third place, Paranormal Romance Short Story Contest, July 2020
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FEEDBACK FROM MY ROMANCE/LOVE NL DATED: 9 SEP 2020
Quick-Quill 
My husband to be and I went to DQ the night we "met." One week later we were engaged, six months later, married and in Nov it will be 48 years of marriage.
That’s great! Do you still have dates to DQ?
Monty 
You asked and although it was 60 years ago, I remember it was with my first wife in Zweibrucken Germany.
I never went to Zweibrucken. I always liked visiting a brew house and more authentic German cuisine restaurants. My favorite was jagerschnitzel and pomme frites.
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