 Romance/Love: August 11, 2010 Issue [#3899] |
  Romance/Love
This week: Love: What Is It Exactly? Edited by: shaara
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Today I'm your guest editor. Here goes -- first time!
Now keep this a secret, but I own a book called The Romance Writers' Phrase Book.
I highly recommend picking up a copy of it, not because you would ever copy something word for word from the book, but because ruffling through its pages really can rev up the imagination to get you delightfully in the mood for writing about romance.
Try it; you'll see what I mean:
"She lowered her voice, being purposefully mysterious . . ." (page 69)
Doesn't that make you want to start banging away at the keyboard?
"His smile was as intimate as a kiss." (page 41)
Puckering up yet?
She felt blood cursing through her veins like an abandoned river." (page 116)
(Is that a river just after a torrential rainfall or one merely rushing down to the sea, the result of melting snow?)
Either way, it sounds good to me!
Writing romance stories, means setting the scene for
LOVE
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Love - What Is It exactly?
What is it that stirs the embers of two hearts? How can a woman look at a man and say, "He's the one for me?" How can a man dig deeper than surface attraction and discover the true voice inside his heart? What is the key that unlocks this mystery and opens the door for true love?
"It's a puzzlement," the king says in Anna and the King of Siam.
Yet, scientifically, it isn't really. Attraction and chemistry stir the mixture. When two brush up against each other emotionally and/or physically, fusion occurs. Sometimes it's quite rapid. Other times it's a slow-burning coal, one that eventually flames and sends sparks out into the night.
But what is the catalyst that unites and melds, connects and entwines?
In Finian's Rainbow, love grows under the influence of that old devil moon.
Apparently just looking up into the sky at the same time with someone is enough to spin love's molecules. Of course, some blame the stars or the darkness of night for racing their hearts or causing lips to tingle with desire. (It's possible even the interior of a deep, dark cavern could ignite romance if it weren't so doggone cold inside, although it's probable that shivers may not allow love's heat to kindle into flame.)
It's very strange when one ponders the idea. Love is both a verb and an action. It's an emotion, a process, a rollercoaster ride, yet something people desire.
Give me some lovin'. Love me or leave me. Amo, amas, amat.
Love's an overused word, some might say, although it shouldn't be. Doesn't love happen only once or twice in a lifetime?
Nat King Cole sang, "When I fall in love, it will be forever, or I'll never fall in love."
But for others love is a weekly, daily, hourly obstacle course whose goal is a brief burst of amor and then onward to the next race.
In Finian's Rainbow, the leprechaun sings, "When I'm not with the girl I love, I love the girl I'm with."
Funny, yet, some prefer that view.
I wonder if one can prevent love. Is it truly fate - the inevitabile, the combustion that happens even when one doesn't strike a match?
Elvis Presley used to sing, "I can't help falling in love with you."
How many are hooked on love's barb and reeled in kicking and screaming?
Love twists and turns like a fast-forward merry-go-round. Then it flips one head over heels.
Love is a many splendored thing.
It makes the world go round. It's a place to live - one's love shack. It replaces LIKE. It leads to vows, promises, and commitment.
Sometimes.
Sometimes it leads to rage, jealousy, and violence.
Police search for love triangles. Detectives search for the love angle. The chief suspect is always the one closest, the one who loves or loved - the girl friend, boy friend, husband, or wife.
Brittle as glass, reflective as a mirror. Love changes everything.
Love overshadows.
Love rearranges.
Love conquers all.
Love is the answer to every question.
King Arthur asks Merlin in Camelot.
How do you handle a woman?
The reply: "Just love her, love her, love her."
In the Phantom of the Opera, Raul and Christine sing back and forth to each other:
"Love me - that's all I ask of you. . ."
LOVE
A whole genre.
AND
Perhaps the axis that keeps the world in rotation. (At least inside our emotions.)
Love!
How can we not write about it?
Our hearts beat its song.
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Featured Items: August 11th Romance/Love Newsletter
Sometimes love becomes as deformed as a piece of plywood left out in the pouring rain. Then its story is sad, sad, sad. The following is an emotional mishap of the love train. It will leave you wondering just exactly how such a warping can even be called LOVE, but the part that lingers, is that it's highly believable. We all know someone whose relationship is as nauseous as a sea-sick sailor.
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Jen finally found a surefire way to rid herself of her suffocating fiancee - or did she?
#1634889 by RadioShea   |
I start packing up my sunscreen and the other crap. "I warned you long ago what you were dealing with. Did you think I was lying? I refuse to be chained, Steven - to anyone, no matter how much they do for me. You just don't want to hear it."
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How much better is the love in this story which grows between an African lady and her employer.
My juvenile mind couldn't fathom my sudden gush of happiness nor was I skilled in the art of concealing my feelings. Surely, she read my face because her lips curled to give me that slight smile. I was delighted at the prospect of having her close to me for a few days. Thanks to my bosses' fickle memories, I conveniently ignored the fact that her husband owed us money.
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You know the kind of story that changes you - makes you teary-eyed sad, yet appreciative that you've lived the scenes with that character - well, this is one of those. A great read!
My response, one that would seek her eyes and gently brush away her hair, should have been, "I need you to be more than a friend, Nancy. I love you in ways I can't even explain. I always have and I always will." The thoughts had wanted to escape me for years, but I held them inside yet again.
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This is a story that really kicks. The ending is so startling, so unexpected . . .
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What is the cost of true love? How far would you go to protect it?
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"Jack got to the final letter and again his hands began to shake. He reached for the pack of Winstons and tapped another onto the bed. Trembling, he lit it and inhaled. The first empty puff brought no comfort, nor did the second or third. His shaking hands unfolded the page:
"March 14,
My Dearest Jack,
By the time you read this . . . "
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Okay, time for something that ends on a happy note.
The following is one of mine. I have many stories about love, but this one, believe it or not, is one of my favorites. (I guess it's the song, I remember so well. LOL)
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"Well he came down to earth and he lit in a tree
I said Mr. Purple People Eater, don't eat me."
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