 Romance/Love: September 25, 2013 Issue [#5861] |
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This week: Show Romance with Small Things Edited by: NaNoNette  
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Show Romance with Small Things
Earlier this year, I started watching a whole lot of Asian movies. Many of them are Martial Arts movies. Many of those movies are very male and fight-centric as would be expected. So, why is this even in a romance newsletter?
Because of Donnie Yen. (Blade II, Ip Man, Dragon Tiger Gate and more.)
Donnie Yen is a Chinese actor who acts in movies that describe life in China before Mao, right around the time of the revolution, and during the Japanese invasion, and who also made an anime-inspired live-action movie. In all of his movies, he is the hero, the good guy, and the winner in the end. If he doesn't win, it's because the historic character he portrays didn't win.
In most of his movies, there is a woman by his side. Either his wife or his love interest. Now, I don't know if the way he treats his wife or love interest was written for him, or if he insists in playing those characters in those particular ways, but he is always exceptionally kind to the women by his character's side.
In the last movie I watched (Dragon, 2011), he is shown waking up in the morning while his wife is still asleep. In her sleep, she holds on to a small piece of fabric from his sleeve. He carefully frees his sleeve from her hand and then gives her a piece of the blanket to hold. That small action, shown within the first minutes of the movie, showed how much he loved his wife and cared for her emotional well-being. No matter what else happens after that in the movie - I knew he acted to protect her and his family.
As romance writers, use this technique to show love and caring through small scenes such as the one above. Readers who pay attention will see it and it will enrich their reading experience. It also goes back to "show don't tell." The way a character in your story behaves is more powerful than his/her words. I enjoy those moments when one character shows caring in day-to-day life almost more than those bombastic things that require elaborate set-ups. Stretch your imagination to come up with casual ways to incorporate romantic actions into your chapters without having anybody convince an NFL Team to help with a proposal.
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Comments for my last Romance/Love newsletter "Romance or Drama Part 2" .
Elle - on hiatus wrote: I loved reading all the comments to your last newsletter about readers who want their romances to have happy endings. I'm so glad I'm not the only one! I found it interesting that there were quite varying degrees of acceptance in regards to the trials the couple had to go through BEFORE the end though. One of my favourite series is the KGI series by Maya Banks (military ops, with a little paranormal partway through the series) and all of her heroines go through serious trials. All the stories have a happy ending though. I have learned that I'm happy to watch the characters endure just about anything if I can be confident they'll be happy ever after at the end. THAT is what we all want from life, yes? To know that no matter the trials we have to endure (and we all have to endure different trials in life) that we will find happiness and true love. Well, that's what I want anyway. 
Exactly! Just how we don't care where packages have been as long as they reach their destination.  (insider joke)
monty31802 wrote: Great Newsletter.
Thank you!
pinkbarbie wrote: I like romantic stories with romance in them and the inner conflict should be within the characters, hindering them from getting close as much as they may want to.
Deep. I am okay with deep or shallow romance as long as nobody ends up in a meat grinder.
BIG BAD WOLF is Howling  wrote: There are plenty of crazy stories. Some things are just especially crazy. "Eggnog and Werewolves Part 3"
Yeah, I worry about you sometimes. (Still have to watch that Rocketship movie)
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