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This week: Playing a game of 'Let's Pretend' Edited by: fyn  
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Hello Rabbit, is that you?”
“Let’s pretend it isn’t”, said Rabbit, “and see what happens.~~A.A. Milne
“Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part”~~William Hazlit
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Remember when you were a child? My childhood was (and I'm dating myself here) was back in the dark ages
before computers and Wiis and cellphones. TV was still in black and white and weekly trips to the library
held the fascination of a trip that could take me anywhere! It was back when my favorite climbing tree was one day
a ship and the next a magical realm. Those branches took me round the world and yes, even to
distant planets. Other days my bike would take me up Mt Everest or be a steed in Camelot. I was a teacher or an astronaut.
I wore black hats or white hats and thus either ruled the day or died dramatically with much imagined blood and gore. I was
a princess in a fairy castle awaiting my Prince Charming and once I remember spending the day pretending to be the frog.
Now I'm all grown up (supposedly), a grandmother to eleven and, yes, I still believe in 'Let's Pretend.'
That's because I'm a writer. On a daily basis I disappear into my writing, into my stories, into whatever world I am currently
devising. It is easier, you see, to put myself in that place. For it is there that I see the world around me, it is there that I hear the conversations unfold.
Luckily for me, my husband 'gets' this. He'll come into the computer room and seeing me off in a daze or typing furiously, wait and then
when I come up for air, ask me where I've been. It isn't unusual for me to grab him and drag him back with me. Sometimes it helps when he
plays along as conversations might go off in different directions, or in his imagining, he will see what I might have missed.
Do you, can you, remember how it used to be? Several children deep in the magic of make believe and then one takes the game off
into a new dimension? One minute you are riding a unicorn and the next a tidal waves washes you all out to sea. The next few hours you happily
survive being on a deserted island and then the unicorn swims to shore and the game changes yet again. You went with it.
Your mind's eye re-focused and a new world appeared in complete detail. Such it can be with writing, for if you can see where you are,
you can then write what you see, feel, experience, hear, et cetera.
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LJPC - the tortoise  writes in:What a great story from your real-life experiences. You wrote it beautifully with all the lovely prince and riding analogies. Your newsletter are always so entertaining and a pleasure to read.
Thank you! You made my day!
SeptemberBee  says: Who doesn't enjoy HEA?  You do make a very good point. Romance is the best selling genre right now, especially through Internet sales - I read an article through Publishers Weekly that said it was because HEA made readers feel good in these tough economic times.
And that which makes us feel better in some way, really helps!
cullenists comments: This newsletter is so true. i am only a young college student myself but i yearn for my fairytale ending. my cousins and i still sit around on lazy summer days and tell each other our 'perfect guy' list which might sound silly but as i grow up i revise it and with each boyfriend i check off traits...
Not a bad way to find the right some one! And as well as check 'off' traits, you may well find others to add!
It's too hot already! adds: I thoroughly enjoyed this newsletter Fyn! Where you said: <Somewhere along the way, I discovered only rusty knights, with dented armor, who never heard of chivalry and my girlish dreams pranced off into the sunset. Turned out, my white knight, my charming prince, is a welder who grew up farming and dances the two step.> Oh how true to my life this is. We dreamed big as young girls, helped along by mothers who sometimes wanted better for their daughters. Well I didn't get prince charming or the white knight, but he is my knight, my hero. Thank you for a wonderful read
You are so welcome! Hmmm the knight is in the eye of the beholder? *grin*
Tornado Day writes: As always, I love your newsletters. With regard to your comment on happily forever after, I think there are times (enough) that we accept the forever after......and relish the moments when happily could not describe our bliss. Thank you..........
Absolutely. Now, for example...'simply bliss' works for me!
Raine says: The desire to love and be loved is universal. No matter the culture, religion or economic stability of your given home, you want love. That's why romance is such a broad genre encompassing cowboys and werewolves, aliens and princes and even a few frogs. It's why I love writing it; the boundaries are practically non-existent.
True as it can be tempered to fit almost any group of characters... |
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