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Romance/Love: June 27, 2007 Issue [#1801]

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Romance/Love


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1. About this Newsletter
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

The Ramblin' Newsletter Editor at your service. I wanted to take a broader look at the genre Romance/Love this week and challenge you to it in your hands turn it, hold it to the light and explore a different facet of Love.


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Letter from the editor

Where is love?
Does it fall from skies above?
Is it underneath the willow tree
That I've been dreaming of?
Where is she
Who I close my eyes to see?
Will I ever know the sweet "hello"
That's meant for only me?

Who can say where she may hide?
Must I travel far and wide?
'Til I am beside the someone who
I can mean something to.
Where,
Where is love?

Who can say where she may hide?
Must I travel far and wide?
'Til I am beside the someone who
I can mean something to.
Where,
Where is love?
Where is love?
Does it fall from skies above?
Is it underneath the willow tree
That I've been dreaming of?
Where is she
Who I close my eyes to see?
Will I ever know the sweet "hello"
That's meant for only me?

Who can say where she may hide?
Must I travel far and wide?
'Til I am beside the someone who
I can mean something to.
Where,
Where is love?

Who can say where she may hide?
Must I travel far and wide?
'Til I am beside the someone who
I can mean something to.
Where,
Where is love?

When the twenty-eight year old Lionel Bart wrote this lyric, he was giving voice to a child’s need to be loved. However, if the reader was not aware of the musical “Oliver!” the reader might think the song was the lament of someone searching for true love. Neither is incorrect, except in the context of the musical, because, to paraphrase, we are all searching for “someone who we can mean something to.”

The title for this genre, Romance/Love can be misleading; most readers automatically assume that the item listed under this genre is going to deal with romantic love. To limit this genre to just that one aspect is not only artistically limiting, but emotionally limiting, too. As a writer, it is important to explore all facets of a genre, not just the one the writer feels most comfortable. In attempting to write from a new point of view, or a different facet, the writer will find that in subsequent work will begin to develop more depth as the writer begins reframing love for the various relationships in life.

Keep in mind that not all work a writer creates for this genre has to be autobiographical. The joy of this genre is that the writer can take an autobiographical moment and add a twist, rework the ending, or add a different conflict to create an entirely different emotional moment.

Below are listed a couple of works from my own portfolio touching on different facets of love. So, sharpen your pencils and write something from one of the many facets of Ro/Lo! Where is Love?


Dancing Love

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Mother’s Love

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Pet Love

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Vicarious Love

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Editor's Picks

 Sonnet Open in new Window. [E]
A Modern Shakespearean Sonnet: Finding Love at Taco Bell
by NearlyMello Go! Go! Go! Author Icon



 Eyes So Bright Open in new Window. [E]
Your unconditional love is amazing
by Hgomez Author Icon



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Poem about my fussy friend, my cat.
by Lynette Author Icon



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 Prison Love Open in new Window. [13+]
Round 2 Spewlitzer - a love poem from prison, to an admirer.
by SophyBells Author Icon



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September 11... A year later...
by Joy Author Icon





 
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Just curious to see which one of these was a favorite of yours as a child, (Or even now).
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      Bambi
      Where the Red Fern Grows
      None of the Above



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