I was pondering love the other day. I am blessed to be surrounded by love from family and friends. But as I pondered, I realized something that was never in my consciousness before. Love is a piss-poor word. (Excuse the French!) How can we have a language with so many words for “pants” (trousers, slacks, …
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Writing the Love Scene: Part II
Seems as if we were on a love theme last week. A little late, we should have hit this in February! Robin wrote about love archetypes, in her post of the same name, a concept I’d never thought much about when writing a love scene, probably because my lovers develop their character traits as I …
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Writing the Love Scene: Sex or No Sex
My first foray into writing led me to an uncomfortable place: writing the love scene— and so I decided to do a little research before I made a total fool of myself. Since it was a YA novel, it was tame compared to what I’ve currently written, but I quickly understood that the elements are …
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