 Romance/Love: July 12, 2006 Issue [#1129] |
  Romance/Love
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Whether we are young or old we all experience feelings of love, here we will share those experiences and discuss love itself as well as why we read and write about it.
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Captivating your reader with emotions
For the past few issues I have talked about love in terms of how it affects our bodies and minds but have delved no further into how we can use that in our writing to draw in our readers, this month I want to explore that as well as look at some of your views on love which you have kindly offered to me through my survey | |  | Invalid Item
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We have already discovered that love is a fairly hard concept to pin down and yet we all know what it is and how it affects us, in order for us to translate that into our work we need to find all those words that describe love and the emotions associated with it.
As you may know I am not typically a romantic writer although a lot of my work surrounds love and romance in some way shape or form, but in order for me to create a piece that for the reader feels believable it is important that I get on the same level as the reader him/herself.
If I wrote:
“Jenny waited for John to kiss her. “
we can see what is happening, it is simply a kiss, but we get no feel for what the character is feeling. If however we throw in some of those feelings or symptoms we discussed earlier then we can get a whole different feel for the piece.
“Jenny closed her eyes, her heart racing, her chest heaving in fast sporadic pulses, sweat beading her hot brow as she anticipated the first contact with his lips.”
Here we can almost see Jenny, we can almost feel what she feels, can tune into the anticipation and feelings, why? Because as a reader we can relate to those feelings, we can remember a time when we ourselves felt those feelings and felt the same or similar symptoms.
Try it yourself, make a list of all the emotions and or symptoms you feel relate to love and create a few sentences that show these. I would me most interested to see your examples.
Your views on Love
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I thank you all and as promised would like to share my findings with you.
I asked
“Do love and romance stories inspire you? Or do you find them boring and overated?”
it seems that most of you are romantics at heart and love a good romance.
“What would capture your imagination in a love/romance story? What makes you read it?”
I had some great and varied responses, here are just some:
“What captures me is something that I can relate to, be it something that I have experienced, want to experience or curious about.” AJ_Silveria
“It's nice to see peoples feelings of hope and love expressed in a world that often forgets about it.” foreverlove
“I don't like the genre, but I do like romance in, say, a fantasy piece. Romance is an interesting way of developing characters and creating conflict in a story.” Verm
“Do you write love/romance?”
It seems we do have a few romance writers out there even if it isn’t their usual genre.
“If you write about romance and love tell me how you captivate your readers and ensure they want to read on.”
Again I had a varied array of responses; here are just some of them:
“use juicy twists and not too many corny lines.” queeny
“I usually take on troubling, illicit affairs in my romance writings, providing reasons for why they should be together but also making the consequences of their relationship integral to moving the plot.” Turkey DrumStik 
“I usually don't write about it, but if I did I would probably do a story about the hero ending up with the villain at the end and him playfully torturing her until she gives in.” duster28
Again I would like to thank everyone who helped by completing the survey, the response was overwhelming and fascinating.
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This month I have been on the look out for those special pieces which lets us be transported to the feelings of the character, those pieces that makes us sit up and relate. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.
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I always enjoy hearing all your comments about the newsletters, thanks everyone who wrote in. Here are just some of your views.
"I enjoyed this newletter very much. I am a hopeless romantic from way back. It's such a challenging life in this dead beat world, but they need us to spice up their otherwise boring and dull lives. Thanks." - pensive
"love...ummmmm..what a word to describe! actually that subject has been my prior interest for many years..and still haven't arrived at a definite conclusion about love..but all i know that it's a rope that tie two souls..it's the harmony of universe..it's that feeling that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire inside our hearts and bring peace to our minds...i love love!! great work..great newsletter" soha
If you have any comments about the newsletter or anything else you would like to say on romance and love then let me know.
 This months Hot Topic is describing and using emotions and love symptoms in your writing. Also if you have any of your sentence excercises you would like to share let us know via the feedback form or mail me direct |
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