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I sent out a query on Twitter to romance authors and readers if they’d be interested in answering two quick questions. These two questions are ones that I personally love to ask romance authors when I interview them because the answers are always different and unique even though both deal with emotion and passion. It’s inspiring really to see how they can be defined. Below are the questions and their responses; how would you answer them?
How do you define love?
Leigh Ellwood: I see love as the feeling in your heart, somewhere between softening and swelling, you experience when you are near your partner. No matter how they look, what they are wearing, or how long you’ve been together - you still get that tingle when you kiss and that itching desire to grab ‘em!
Carolyn Jewel: A deep and abiding respect and admiration (since I can’t use the word “love”). Two people who are aware of each other’s flaws and find it makes little to no difference.
Rai-mon Nemar: Love is - Thinking to yourself “if you just act on your dreams you’ll rule the world”, and yet you’re actions are consistently made with someone else’s well being in mind.
Love is - When you feel as though your personal and professional pursuits wouldn’t have had as much meaning without that someone who’s traveled the journey with you. They might even be worthless.
Love is - Not an emotion! It is a choice you make daily to stay the course and live your life with someone and know you’ll be better for it.
What makes a great bedroom scene?
Leigh Ellwood: I like a slow build-up, a painfully teasing undress and kisses that explore the skin like a roadmap. I like dialogue, too. Sex doesn’t have to be a mute activity. Where there is communication, it only ramps up the sex appeal.
Carolyn Jewel: There must be something at risk, something changed between them afterward. If your characters aren’t risking anything emotionally through their intimacy, then it’s just boring. Every bedroom scene has to change the relationship between the characters. This can include making things seem even worse, by the way. Intimacy does not always equal happy ever after, especially early on in a relationship. It’s not only about who’s touching who where. The best bedroom scenes never, ever lose focus on the emotion, even when one of the characters thinks there isn’t any.
Rai-mon Nemar: I’d say it’s like it real life. It’s all about the foreplay and more importantly the anticipation. Then “learning” how the person reacts to the certain things you do. Kissed this (nothing), touched that (nothing) bit her fat (she sucked her teeth for almost a minute like bacon sizzling) hopefully you know what I mean.
To read other responses to these questions, check out Love Romance Passion’s additional author interviews.
If you are the owner of a review blog or are a romance author and are interested in participating in this survey please send your responses (and links) to Keira: reviewromancenovel at yahoo dot com.
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Originally posted 2008-12-30 05:01:50. Republished by Old Post Promoter
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