 Romance/Love: August 09, 2006 Issue [#1172] |
  Romance/Love
This week: Edited by: cerianwen  
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| Whether we are young or old we all experience feelings of love, here we will share those experiences and discuss love itself as well as why we read and write about it |
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Lets get down to the nitty-gritty of why we read, lets forget the love and the romance, lets forget all the gooey stuff and forget for a minute that this is a romance love newsletter and lets look at what makes us take up a book in the first place.
If we are truthful with ourselves we want escapism, we want to leave our trivialities behind and be lifted right off our seats and into the world of the characters in our choice of book, no matter what genre we read, we read because we want to be there even just for a little while.
Think of it! Our minds are a most powerful tool. What magic, what wondrous power it is to read a few lines of text and be instantly transported into the book, all feeling of present gone in the blink of an eye. Suddenly work, stress, worries, the kids, even our own selves melt into insignificance just by reading. So how is this possible? Imagination!
If then by reading a few lines in a book our imaginations can re-create via the written prompts a magical world where beasts roam, a picturesque village where love blossoms between hero and heroine, or a crime is solved by an unpredictable super sleuth, then what can we dream up all by our selves.
Ok so where will you get the prompts if they are not written down? We live in a world full of them. Take a look around and see what magical stories are all around you. The man waiting at the bus stop, the lady scoffing a plateful at the café, the young girl playing hop-scotch outside a run down house, each and every person you see id a visual prompt for a new story.
Become a people watcher. Sit with a pen and paper for a while in a café or train/bus station and observe the different people you see (subtly of course you don’t want someone taking offence) note down the little quirks they have, how they dress, what kind of shoes they wear, the way they carry their bag or umbrella, even the way they blow their nose. You will notice that everyone does things a little different than the next, and these little details will create a great and believable character.
A great exercise I learnt in school was to go out and collect observations on a few people then when I get back home write up as much detail as them as possible in a paragraph or two, describing in detail and then exploring that further until I finish with an outline of a character that I can use in a story. Each time I go back to the character they build and develop even further, the character develops an imaginary background, spouse, career, they start to interact with other characters I have observed and built descriptions of, suddenly that character has a whole heap of stresses, worries, love interests, jobs etc which has been built from the ground up, by observation and the most fundamental tool of all. Imagination.
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I always enjoy hearing all your comments about the newsletters, thanks everyone who wrote in.
Hi!
I loved your topic this week. I always try to write about romantic encounters "symptomatically" - interspersing dialogue with sweating hands, flushed cheeks or racing thoughts. I think these vivid symptom descriptions are much more powerful than just throwing an adverb in there.
-Writher writher
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