This is part two to my Twitter query series about defining emotion and passion. Part one can be found here. This series is devoted to asking romance authors and readers to explain the driving forces behind the concepts of love and desire by sharing their opinions and stories.
What is love? How do you define it?
Sèphera Girón: Love is unconditional acceptance and nurturing protective feelings towards another human being. Romantic love would add sexual chemistry and the idea of wanting to "do anything" for your partner both in the bedroom and out.
Stephani Hecht: A few years ago my grandmother was in the hospital. She'd had emphysema for a while and we all knew she was dying. Most of the time she was unconscious, but we still took turns being by her bedside so she wouldn't be alone. I was taking the midnight shift when my grandfather showed up. He came to her bedside, took her hand and placed a gentle kiss on her forehead.
"I still remember the first time I saw you," he said, as he stoked the back of her hand with his thumb. "I was fourteen, you were twelve and I spotted you across the school yard. You had on this really pretty yellow dress and there was a ribbon in your hair. As soon as I saw you I said to myself, That's the one. That's my girl."
Now that was true love. My grandmother died hours later and my grandfather has never really gotten over losing her.
What makes a great bedroom scene?
Sèphera Girón: I'm talking about one man and one woman in this one: Anticipation and tension sexually and emotionally before they hit the bedroom, leading to sensual touching and exploring, with the woman coming first at least once and usually it's because the man has full attention on her either oral sex or fingering her. Both partners are lustily into the moment and sometimes it's nice if both can come together for the finale. Descriptions and dialogue should be realistic and to the point, including talking during lovemaking even though it feels weird typing "oh yeah" but when you read the work outloud, it's real. "Cute" words such as cunny, and creamy, turn me off.
Stephani Hecht: If you can make the reader "feel" the character's fears, passions and desires, then you have done your job as a writer. I want the reader to be cheering when the hero and heroine finally get together.
To read other responses to these questions, check out Love Romance Passion's additional author interviews.
If you would like to participate officially in this series send your responses to Keira: reviewromancenovel[at]yahoo[dot]com. Additionally, you can send up to two links to connect readers to who you are and where to find you.
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Originally posted 2009-01-10 11:49:43. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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