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Romance/Love: August 31, 2016 Issue [#7835]

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Romance/Love


 This week: Get Romantic
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3. Letter from the Editor
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About This Newsletter

No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's more, the darker the past, the brighter the future - and the better the read.
~ Sarah MacLean

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
~ Oscar Wilde


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Letter from the editor

In the past few weeks, I've been struck reading a lot of Nora Roberts books. To my own surprise, I enjoy her writing. Each writer ends up writing something repetitive, and Nora may be doing the same thing with her trilogies. However, on the other hand, her characters are interesting, never similar and the story keeps moving at a pace which doesn't bore a reader.

Writing romance set in today's day and age, it is hard to find the balance. A kiss is considered romantic, but it leads quickly to more and looses that special moment. When did romance become so misinterpreted?

As a reader I want to see the spark between two characters, see them fall in love, realize that moment, but I also want to see some conflict between them as well. Elizabeth Thornton wrote her books in a completely opposite direction than Nora Roberts. Her characters don't get to be together until the very end. She found any excuse possible to keep them separated. While on one hand, it keeps things interesting, on the other it can get really frustrating to wait until the end just to see what happens and how the main characters end up together at long last.

Each writer is different and has their own preference when it comes to writing a story, but it all depends on what they see as romantic. Is it the accidental touch that will let the sparks fly or is is more subtle? Which do you prefer? And how do you include it in your own writing to keep a reader on their toes?

'Til next time!
~ Gaby *Witchhat*


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