 Romance/Love: February 06, 2008 Issue [#2207] |
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The message of frustration is an exciting signal. It means that your brain believes you could be doing better than you currently are. Frustration is a very positive sign.-- Tony Robbins
The creative person finds himself in a state of turmoil, restlessness, emptiness, and unbearable frustration unless he expresses his inner life in some creative way--Silvano Arieti
People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.--William Faulkner
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.-- Kurt Vonnegut
I am fyndorian and I am please to bring you this week's Romance Newsletter.
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Trying to write a romance newsletter during the Super Bowl is not a good idea. Trying to write said newsletter when your team is losing is really a bad idea. Add to that an other half who is 'very happy' and being very talkative doesn't help either. Factor in wanting to watch the commercials and a puppy who is picking every noisy toy she has to play with and the frustration levels are raised to an over the top all time high.
Then the other half asks what he can do to help. 'Shut up!' I think rather meanly. "Besides shut up?" he asks. Laughter ensues. And I start to write....even though he has yet to make it more than two seconds without talking. Sigh.
Frustration. Well, at least I have an idea now! Frustration of various sorts does seem to be a cornerstone of a good romance. Sexual frustration, of course. Nothing ever comes easily on that front. But other kinds as well. Frustration over miscommunication. Frustration over differing expectations. Frustration born of everything from time, distance, money, illness, and significant others who persist in talking! ooops...sorry *smile* Ah but the Patriots are ahead with 2 minutes left to go.
So, for the moment life is good. Which of course sets us up for the next conflict! I mean, if I'd been able to easily write this newsletter, it would have been no big deal. If there weren't conflict, there'd be no story. So we have a series of conflicts and resolutions building to an ultimate conflict and resolution at which point life is good and things all work out as they should.
And then the Giants get a touchdown and there's only twenty-nine seconds left to go.
Tension mounts. He's still talking nonstop. And instead of giving up, I'm determinedly still trying to write. And the romance of the Patriots going totally undefeated goes up in smoke as the Giants get the ball with one second left to go. The underdogs come out on top and if my perspective had been different, the romance of the wild card team pulling it out would be realized. Eli Manning wins Super Bowl 42 a year after his brother wins it. So, I suppose, things did work out as they should. I don't have to like the ending. But I can appreciate it.
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Helen McNicol  wrote:Another great newsletter, I was inspired by your own personal story, and your description of a fairy tale ending. It is of course the backbone of a good story though, even if you don't have the conflict.
Even a backbone needs ribs, muscle and blood...but it does have heart *smile*
Just Jamie writes:Wow Fyn! Your personal story and account of how it doesn't make the grade for a true "Romance" novel really drew me in! Funnily enough, I started thinking about mine and my husband's story, which is very much "Us against the World" type of story. One day, I would love to write it all out (and not just in blog form), for everyone to hear!
Definitely though, I think the best "love stories" are the ones full of love, enjoyment, and happiness. Tension may make relationships either break or be stronger than anything, but sometimes it's just nice to have a relationship that doesn't have to go through tension and conflict!
True and I'm loving it, but ....Of course the important thing is that just maybe I've nudged you into writing YOUR story....
Vivian  wrote in:hanks, Robin, for highlighting my story "Island Storm".
You're correct that conflict is needed to have a romance, but even in a happy marriage conflicts arise, even if not between the couple. It just takes a bit of imagination to develop those conflicts. Many TV writers don't have the imagination, or run out of ideas, to keep a couple happy and develop other conflicts. How sad. ~~ Viv
How very true. Sometimes I've watched a show and found myself thinking that I'd have written it differently.
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