 Romance/Love: September 20, 2006 Issue [#1276] |
  Romance/Love
This week: Edited by: Red Writing Hood <3  
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Hi, Red Writing Hood: Romance Reporter, here!
I will cover everything from poetry and stories of every length to customs and creative projects. If it has to do with romance and love, I will share it in this newsletter.
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Does the past stay back where it’s supposed to be - in the past?
I lost my innocence with a man I loved deeply. However, he wasn’t free to be with me. No, he didn’t have a wife or a girlfriend at the time. He was surrounded by shadows: the shadow of his father’s drinking problem, his father’s mental and physical abuse of his mother and his father’s mental abuse of him.
It wasn’t long before he tried to escape the stalking shadows and joined the military. This left me feeling bereft. Sure, I understood why he left. He loved me, but who would want to stick around and sink lower in that miserable mental muck. It still didn’t help that I was left with two empty arms and a lonely heart.
I tried to move on ~ all the while saving a petite piece of my heart for him.
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The past holds relevant facts that guide and motivate our actions, whether we want them to or not. As a writer, you need to use this information to your advantage. A “past” should guide and motivate your character’s actions, whether they want them to or not.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s stated directly or only implied to the reader. The important thing is: what sort of romantic past have you created for your character?
-Has love always gone wrong for them?
-Do they love and leave?
-Are they affected by the romantic problems or hang-up’s of someone close to them?
-Take things from your own passionate past, you know, that whole write what you know thing.
Knowing your character’s “past” will help you keep them fleshed out, easy for your readers to identify with and makes them more “real.”
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In case you’re wondering, he and I didn’t end up together, but losing him affected every single romance I had after him. It also might have given me a hankering for men in uniform,  and may have led me to the man I had four children with and am planning to spend the rest of my days with.
Yep, seventeen years married and counting… 
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Theme: For Alimohkon  (see the Ask & Answer section below), and anyone else starving for little bits - okay, some are big bits - of love poetry.
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Comments on last month's newsletter:
Submitted By: SHERRI GIBSON 
Submitted Comment:
The perfect way to let others know that you enjoy reading others' romance/love entries. Good luck, Red! Great newsletter! sherri
Submitted By: spazmom
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This newsletter made me laugh...I had just been commenting to my daughter at a wedding breakfast that I was going to be known as the 'obnoxious' aunt that keeps clinking the glasses for the couples to kiss...reunions are fun. Good newsletter.
Submitted By: nancy777ca
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As a new member, I can't tell you how glad I am to receive these newsletters! They're wonderfully informative and help to also find more great stuff to read. Bravo to you and keep up the wonderful work! Nancy
Submitted By: Alimohkon
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I'm just bothered with the phrase at the top of this newsletter - "if it has anything to do with romance and love" - will this newsletter ever treat my lonely heart? Just send me a short poem, and treat this old man.
Thank you all for your wonderful comments 
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