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Ah, l'amour! It warms the heart (especially in winter) and inspires hope, but romance comes in a multitude of subgenres. Over the next couple of newsletters, I'll take a look at some of the more popular subgenres. This month I picked inspirationals. Inspirational romance inspires a spiritual journey similar to the one we make as we prepare for Christmas.
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Inspirational romances involve the character's journey of self-discovery that involves a higher power. The journey usually touches the character or heals the character's heart so they feel free to love.
For example, boy meets girl, boy likes girl. Girl is very spiritual and boy is not. Boy takes a spiritual journey, which enriches his heart and wins the girl.
Generally, with an inspirational romance, it does not matter what religion is used, just that the romance involves a higher power. However a majority of inspirationals use nondenominational, nonspecific Christianity based religion which is usual Protestant orientated. Because of this, you might hear it referred to as a Christian romance.
What keeps an inspirational authentic is when the character finds their inner strength, courage, and resolve through faith. You want to stay away from any direct intervention of God or angels. This gives the romance more a supernatural feel than an inspirational one.
There are plenty of online resources you can look up for more information on inspirational romance. The American Christian Fiction Writers is a great resource and can be found at: http://www.acfw.com/
Some well known inspirational authors include: Rachel Hauck and Michelle Sutton.
Reference for this newsletter: On Writing Romance, Leigh Micheals, 2007, Writer's Digest Books, 264 pages.
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I've not read or seen Dr. Zhivago. Instead I will recommend two companion novels that were later made into miniseries on ABC: The Winds of War and War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk. These books take a fictional U. S. Navy family, the Henrys, and mix them with both historical personalities and other fictional characters. The Winds of War starts in mid 1939 and the events that led to the start of WWII in Europe, and proceeds to just after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. War and Remembrance picks up from there through the end of World War II. Both books, while going through the events of those times, also show romantic interludes of various types (including illicit) between assorted fictional characters, and among two different generations.
These books also include a view "from the other side of the hill," as lead character Victor Henry describes it, with excerpts from a two-part book written by one of the fictional characters, German General Armin von Roon. (The book was written by the general while serving a sentence for war crimes.) His book is involved because Victor Henry knew General von Roon while he was Naval Attache in Berlin, and has spent his retirement from the Navy translating it into English and offering occasional counterpoints. (In the miniseries, von Roon became the viewpoint from the German General Staff as the war progressed of how things were in Germany, and the policies of Adolph Hitler.)
At one point in War and Remembrance, Wouk himself (as the story's narrator) calls the book a "romance." He does this in citing a tradition that old books / romances would stop their tales to exalt the names of warriors lost in battle. He then proceeds to list the U. S. naval carrier aviators who flew what turned out to be suicidal torpedo plane missions against the Japanese forces in the Battle of Midway (listing both survivors and those who were lost).
Hope I didn't go overboard here! I would highly recommend both the books and the miniseries.
You didn't go overboard at all! I saw both these mini series and I LOVED them. I haven't read the books, but I just might pick them up for my Kindle! Awesome recommendations!
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StephBee is a 911 Dispatcher for LAPD. Her short story, "Christmas in Bayeux" is now available in the Victory Tales Press, A Christmas Collection: Stimulating. "Christmas in Bayeux" is a contemporary romance that takes place on the beaches of Normandy in France.
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