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For Authors: February 22, 2012 Issue [#4860]

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 This week: Characters from Mars and Venus
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
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6. Ask & Answer
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About This Newsletter

The following quotes are all by Nora Roberts.

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”

“Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.”

“Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.”

“Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you”


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Letter from the editor

One of the reasons that I like Nora Roberts' books is that regardless of whether she's writing a mystery, a romance, a crime drama, fantasy or science fiction, her characters within the framework of the story are real.

Not a one of them is perfect. The guys don't always understand the women and the women certainly don't always 'get' the guys. There are misunderstandings. There are fights where both are positive that they are right. She is a master at having the same sentence mean utterly different things to each of the people concerned...just as in real life! He will be confused and dumb-founded at times. She will get flustered and over-react. Either or both will get drunk and have horrendous hangovers. They will be groggy before their morning coffee. She will spazz over looking just right...and he will think she's gorgeous when she's half awake with bed-mussed hair and no make-up on. He'll notice her perfume even though he may not mention it and he'll watch her while she sleeps. One will be neat and the other won't. They'll suffer from 'flat-surfacitus' yet know where everything is. He'll cook her mouthwatering breakfasts which she'll devour even when she thinks she isn't hungry. She'll bring him coffee or a beer and listen to him work through a problem out loud not because she is interested or understands what that thing-a-ma-jig does, but because she knows it helps.

Her characters are real and funny and do stupid things. They mess up, they fail and they regroup and try again. They develop quirky traits and traditions, they change to fit their partners and yet retain themselves. They are strong, opinionated and sometimes can't see the forest for the trees. He'll help her with almost anything just to be near her. She might not need the help, but will ask because she gets it.

You can have five different people read a sentence and they will interpret it seven different ways. Communication is not a perfect art. Take the sentence, "You can tell that's not a Michigan sunset." He means that he could tell that it wasn't a Michigan sunset. She takes it to mean that it isn't as good as a Michigan sunset. He says exactly what he is thinking. She interprets it and could take it to mean any number of things. Men and women do this. It is real. Characters should be real. The settings might be escapist. Their life styles might be up a bunch of notches. But the communication and interactions should be real.



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A poem of love.
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A poem about miscommunication (what else can poetry be about?)
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A quick poem I put together about two people in love or just confused.
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A slight miscommunication.
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Ask & Answer

Been a really warm and snow-less January here in my neck of Michigan...Teaser snows of course, the kind that give just enough snow to make the roads all slickery but not enough to even cover the grass. Fifty-seven degrees out today, was thirteen degrees three days ago. The winter jackets and the spring ones pile up on the dining room chairs. One day of ice, the next of mud. High and low fronts tango and all I get is a headache and my bum knee aches and even the birds seem to not know which direction to fly. Does the weather affect you? Ah, but does it have an effect on your characters?

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