 Romance/Love: July 29, 2009 Issue [#3186] |
  Romance/Love
This week: Edited by: Vivian  
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One of the W.Com members wrote something in her off site blog that triggered something I've believed for years. She mentioned examining material and then asking, "What if." Those two words open up a new world of ideas. Thanks, Ransom.
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What If?
Several writers can observe or read or experience the same thing yet write completely differently. Each applies the question "What if" to make ideas, experiences, and observations their stories.
I heard a story a few weeks ago that left a desire to use it in my writing. Oh, not as told to me, but by applying what if to it to make it a different story.
The story contained two people, a man and a woman. One was intelligent but disabled, physically challenged. The other was intelligent, ambitious, and whole physically. What if the ambitious, whole-bodied person was a woman? Let's say it is. The physically challenged person is a man who has been severely injured.
The woman and man grew up together as friends from the time they were children. They both were one among several children in their families, poor families that scrambled to keep any kind of food on the tables and roofs over the heads of the people inside the walls of the houses. The couple felt they belonged together from the time they were in their early teens.
The battlefield accident left the man maimed, but the woman, now his wife, still saw the man she had always loved. However, now he couldn't financially provide for their family. He did well to work part time at low paying positions. Fear of not being able to feed their children or to keep the family in a home swamped both husband and wife. They had that urgent need to provide for their family.
Let's name the couple Roger and Dee Wright, just for identification purposes.
The Wrights decide that Dee will return to school, get a degree, and provide financial support while Roger takes care of the children and home.
Dee succeeds beyond their wildest dreams. She is the top of her field. She travels and is entertained across the world. Roger refuses to accompany her because of his appearance, no matter how much she encourages him.
The ingredients are in place to produce a tragedy or a great love story. Now we have to add the what if to see what happens.
What if Dee finds another man, one who wants to be a complete part of her life?
What if Dee, now that she has enough income to last her family, puts her career behind her and rejoins her family full time.
What if Roger decides his wife deserves more than he is providing her and decides to join her when she wants him and hold his head up high. He has nothing of which to be ashamed. Perhaps he becomes a writer, incorporating all he has experienced and learned.
Which would make the better romance/love story?
I know how I would write the story. What if I wrote a human, touching, true love story? |
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Our Readers Speak
Even though I'm a guest editor, I had a previous Romance/Love Newsletter the first of the month. As a result, I have feedback to share.
shaara
Thank you so much, Viv, for featuring my folder of Romance Stories
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I very much appreciate it.
I thoroughly enjoyed your newsletter. I loved the quote. How true, yet in a perspective I hadn't really considered. Great job!
I'm glad you enjoyed the newsletter and was delighted your folder worked for the highlights.
strawberryblack 
Thank you. I have to admit I was one of those who didn't know the difference between a love story and romance. I appreciated the examples too. I'll definitely apply it to my writing such as it is.
I know I'm still and always learning. That's what gives our work the zip it needs. I'm glad you liked the column.
esprit
Nice letter on comparing Love to Romance, Viv. I prefer stories that show love through mopping a floor--they're real and this reader can relate. Thanks!
Some of the most loving experiences in my life were when I was shown that love.
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Truthfully, Vivian Zabel, my poems in my port are meant for love & romance. When I am constructing a poem (Free Verse), I imagined what's in my mind and what I felt deep inside. Then, planning for the words to use. Visit my Poetry Anthology, "Invalid Item" , by the way I am a newbie.
I hope readers will visit your anthology.
Thank you for joining me. Who knows, I may return again.
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