 Romance/Love: October 15, 2008 Issue [#2659] |
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He looks at me and my heart starts skipping beats, my face starts to glow, and my eyes start to twinkle. Imagine what he would do to me if he smiled!~~Yumna
I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.~~D. H. Lawrence
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.
And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw,
the more abundant is its flow.~~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love doesn't make the world go 'round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.~~Franklin P. Jones
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New love: that fragile blossoming of an impossibly lovely flower, that lightening of a starry sky to an exquisite dawn, that feeling that your insides cannot possibly hold in all the joy you feel and you just might explode instead. That feeling. Euphoria at its finest.
Have you ever watched it happening to someone you know? A child perhaps, or a best friend? When you see it unfolding before your eyes and know it, absolutely know it, even before they do.
It is an incredible event to watch happening and cannot but make one think back and remember just how glorious it was. For some folks that joy and euphoria seems to keep reinventing itself and for others the joy simmers down to a lovely, warm, coziness.
Yet that new-found love has a sparkle all its own. I was reading a recent book by a best selling author this week past and she had her two main characters discovering they were in love. All well and good except that these two characters, who had known each other only about a week, were acting like a couple who had been together for ten years. They finished each other's sentences. They understood traded looks as if they'd been communicating like that for eons. I found it hard to swallow. There was no giddiness. There was no contemplation on these new emotions. There was no doubt, no questioning, no wonder. It was completely unrealistic. I never made it to another chapter.
My daughter said she had picked up the same book, still lying on the couch where I'd left it. She asked me if I'd read it because she thought it was 'ridiculous.' Her comment boiled down to, 'Mom, I know I fell in love incredibly fast, BUT at least I was questioning it, reflecting on it even as I fell like I'd jumped off a cliff! She writes like she's never been IN love!'
Now this is an author we've both enjoyed over the years. I was very disappointed. Half the fun of reading a romance is to enjoy the build up, the discovery, the confusion. I felt cheated. Why rush it?
*Goes to skim further into the book*
*an hour later*
So he's now dead and she is having issues about trusting again and wondering why she can't find someone to love her. And it goes downhill from there. Lots of drama, angst and all of it was boring.
Makes me wonder about future books by this author. Teaches me about careful build up and having some substance and depth to a story. So at least the book wasn't totally worthless.
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Some feedback from my newsletter on panic...
from fleckgirl
Fyn, I enjoyed this NL a lot! It is very funny how people can become panic-stricken in situations that really don't warrant it, but things get blown out of proportion due to the sensationalism of the media and some skewed perceptions!
Anyway... I heard about stories like the one you told going on here as well. It's sad that people can't act like grown-ups when truly, there were others who deservedly should have been truly panic-stricken with the approach of the storm, like those who had to evacuate!
I think this is probably one of the strongest emotions that people feed on that can drive people to extremes - definitely a good emotion to keep in mind when riding a suspense thriller!
Great job with this NL!
Fleck
Thank you! Always fun to see what drives people into certain emotions and why.
from Incurable Romantic 
Wonderful real-life examples of excellent panic scenes, Fyn, and you're right - these should be filed away for future reference. Nice work here!
Always filing things away...you just never know when you might need to be able to pull out a scene from the mental filing cabinet!
fromspazmom
Good points on panic. People loose all rational thought -- it's a scary thing. There's more of it ahead, I'm afraid. Good newsletter.
Thanking you *smile* Funny the things that can set people off into panic or worse!
 Oh and an FYI for those of you who may have read my last week's For Author's newsletter. There is another poetry reading at Madelena's Tea House in Lansing on October 25th at 8pm. If you live in the Lansing area, come on out and join in the fun. Sure would be nice to see some other wdc-ers there! Bring some of your work to read during the open mike time! |
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