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Romance/Love: July 30, 2014 Issue [#6457]

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Romance/Love


 This week: Love and Emotional Attraction
  Edited by: Annette
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2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
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About This Newsletter

Hello romantically inclined readers and writers, I am Annette and I will be your guest editor for this issue.


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Love and Emotional Attraction


Are love and romance the same thing? Can one exist without the other? Is it all just an illusion created in our brains to ensure the survival of the species? Wikipedia says that romance is defined by pleasurable feelings and emotional attraction toward another person. Sounds like love on the surface.

I am going to say that love and romance aren't on the same level. Romance is something more momentary. It's that feeling that we can also describe as "butterflies in the belly." Love is more of an ongoing feeling. It's built over time. I think you can be angry at somebody and still love them. It's hard to feel romantic toward somebody and be angry at the same time.

As you think about your next romance story or novel, consider if you're writing about temporary infatuation, or if you are trying to build a lasting relationship that becomes love. The kind of love where the partners think of one another as life companions in the same way that parents are connected to their children or siblings to one another. When the person that was a romantic interest becomes a relative who is loved no matter what - with the ability to disagree, but not question the connection as a whole.

The next step is then to figure out how partners who feel like relatives to one another can keep the romance going so that they don't end up as room mates.



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Behind Hazel Eyes  (18+)
A summer trip to Japan, as a teacher, becomes a lesson in love and life for a young woman.
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Taduez is hired to be Griscelda's bodyguard on the way to Londowne.
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Sydney's new fangs attract the wrong suitor. Third in the Sydney Harper Series.
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A short story about a girl finding out she fell in love.
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Ask & Answer


Comments for my last Romance/Love newsletter "How Young is Too Young?" .

Quick-Quill wrote: I am in total agreement with you. Cougars make interesting stories but keep them above the age of consent. Vampires are a little in the (shaking head) area. I find a 100 year old teen still has had more experience than a 15year old. If you have to dumb down the vamp whats the point?

I don't know what the point would be. I wouldn't pair up old guys with teens in the first place.

Jed Jones - banned novel wrote: Societal norms include racism, homophobia, genocide, polygamy, and the genital mutilation of girls at the age of 11. An historical role of novels has been to challenge societal norms. Someone has to do it, when a muscular minority moves the goal posts of what counts as 'appropriate' and harms the very people it claims to protect. In real life, teachers and students fall in love and are still happily married ten years down the line. Novels are supposed to speak to readers' real-life experience and their curiosity about the true stories which the media is allowed to tell everyone of all ages all about.

Ah. Yes. All those terrible things. People who live by those above mentioned "norms" have not arrived in the 21st century. Worst part? They like being backwards. I see a difference between people who live backwards and those who write fiction that pushes limits.

monty31802 wrote: A fine Newsletter and thanks for the highlight of my poem.

:-d You're welcome.

Katherine Storm wrote: I have seen instances of teens falling in love with a 30 year old guy.

Me too. One of my middle-school peers never finished school because of that old guy. Not exactly the best outcome.

taliah_l wrote: A writer should not conform to social norms simply for the sake of conforming. Challenge the law, challenge the government! Use a false name!

Haha, sorry for the little rant. I just think people shouldn't stop writing what they want to write because of what people might think of it. If everyone stuck to what was 'safe' where would we be?

Somewhere between the grey shades? (Just came to mind because that movie is now coming out.) Of course you are right. Write what you want. There are many countries where child marriages are legal. Some US states too. Doesn't make those any less despicable in my eyes. Fiction is always on the outside of reality to a degree. But when you go there, be aware that there might be a backlash. Namely, the writer of that "shadow" book got death threats. The whole name changing thing definitely applies. *Pthb*

BIG BAD WOLF is hopping wrote: Love is just plain crazy. "A Different Red Riding Hood Story" 

Not always. Sometimes it's bat-stuff crazy.


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