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Oh wow, that would be great! It would be the perfect opportunity to explore the more nitty-gritty aspects of married life— the pork chops that the wife burned, and the way her husband bravely ate them or loudly complained, depending on his temperament; the wife learning to manage a household, raising their first child, learning to economize (since most newlyweds don’t begin as millionaires) 😉 and learning to support and encourage each other through even the littlest things.
But if there’s one thing I’ve learned about books, it’s that if you want to read a certain type of book so badly, and want it to be exactly what you hoped for… you have to write it yourself. And I don’t know about you, but I’m up to my ears in books right now. Um… let’s see… roughly thirteen that I definitely have to write, and innumerable ideas that I want to write.
Oh well… maybe someday.
But I already have several arranged marriage plots and political marriage plots and the love story after the wedding plots, so that’ll be really fun.
And hey… did you ever stop to think what it would be like if a story had a typical prince loves princess romance, and everything was going predictably, and them somehow it didn’t work out? Maybe the princess only wanted to marry the prince because he was a prince— not for who he was, and then it turns out that he’s not really a prince after all. Maybe he was the son of a tanner, or a cooper, or (oh horrors) a chicken farmer. And then maybe the princess would be so disgusted when she learned who her prince charming really was, and would go off and look for someone who would ‘be her equal’ in station and birth. But what if in her search she realizes that nobility is not determined by old money or one’s ancestors— it is something inside of you that not even the most polished manners and pretty compliments can make up for if it is lacking. And then, growing weary of all the ‘nobility’ whose company she sought because she believed it superior, she would go back to her chicken farmer and try to make up with him, and then perhaps they would get married and raise chickens and children together. Wouldn’t that be fun?Oh goats! I’m loving this more and more. KP needs to set up a community book writing station! Think of the scratches on the car and the long nights with a colicky (hope that’s how you spell it) baby. Months of morning sickness, date nights, and maybe a FIRE! Fires are always good. And then a resulting move maybe to a small apartment that doesn’t have room to sling a cat.
And a princess/Prince romance! Its even got a moral to the story. Yes yes we need to get writing! Love it love it love it!
HC
A community book writing station- that’s a terrific idea! Let’s do it!
Great! Lets start one! Do you think we should make it a topic on the forum or shall we make a blog or what?
HC
I have no idea; I’ve never done anything like this before. What do you and Kate think?
I have no idea. I know I probably wouldn’t have time for it, though it sounds like terrific fun, because I am so busy helping my little brother with his tomato growing business, helping my family with our log cabin rental business, helping my Dad with his apple growing hobby, canning those apples, helping our cabin guests survive our terror of a driveway when winter comes, and just generally going on with everyday life. And I am a complete dunce when it comes to anything having to do with the internet. 🙂 But I wish you best of luck if you decided to do something like that.
Whoa, Kate, you’re one busy lady!
Ok I have a better idea. How about a thread where someone posts a story prompt idea a week to keep the creative juices going and help keep fresh ideas coming?
HC
That sounds fun. I’m not completely sure what a thread is, but I guess I’ll find out! 🙂
Haha I think a thread is like a new topic…? I don’t know but I might just start one. 🙂
HC
Ya’ll are awesome in wanting to flip the stereotype, but I’d want a romance story that is real. One that includes “love at first sight.” Where there is heart-break. Arguments. Hate. And most importantly realization of true love. Realization that love isn’t a feeling, it’s a choice you keep on making. I think that is what is wrong with romance stories today.
I blog on story and spiritual things at mkami.weebly.com
That’s certainly an interesting opinion, but is love at first sight really even possible? I mean, if you just look up one day and see this guy staring at you across the room, are you automatically just going to think “wow, he is the one! Already I love him so deeply that it cannot be anything but true love!”?
Now don’t get me wrong— I’m certainly an advocate for and a staunch believer in true love. But for me, true love is the love that is built on sacrifice and Christlike service, not some above and beyond feeling that is so euphoric it’s otherworldly. Obviously, I’m not one to talk, never having experienced it for myself, but your definition of a choice to keep on making is very good. It’s not just something that bites you, and boom, you’re bit forever.
And yes, I definitely think heartbreak and hatred and misunderstanding are great parts of any love story. Without those things, how can there be forgiveness and healing? Like I always tell my sisters, everything has to go wrong before anything can go right.I am definitely not an expert on love at first sight, but I think it might be possible, because it happened to Corrie ten Boom’s brother. Maybe, though, love isn’t quite the right word for that occurrence, because, like you said, true love is built on sacrifice and service, not emotions.
Good thoughts all around. I don’t believe there’s such a thing as love at first sight, maybe attraction at fist sigh which eventually leads to love. Because to love someone you have to know something about them ans you can’t do that if you see somebody across the room for the first time. But that’s just my opminion. But Mark’s right in the fact that love is a choice. Its consciously putting the other person above yourself.
As to hate, I love romances that start off with the main characters disliking each other. It adds a whole new dimension to a story that may otherwise have a very ordinary plotline. And heartbreak is lovely–not in real life obviously but is delicious in a book. 🙂
HC
Hey ya’ll.
I put love at first sight in quotation marks! So I don’t believe in it. However, actually upon reading Sarah’s comment I realized that technically true love at first sight is possible It’s not a feeling it’s a choice. And the Bible tells you to love your enemies. So . . . 🙂
And as somebody said: “Love is sacrificing self for somebody else.” It’s hard, brutal, and “ugly.” I mean loving an abusive husband is really ugly. But God actually commands it! It’s hard but there’s great rewards, right?I blog on story and spiritual things at mkami.weebly.com
I think the commands to love your enemies apply to ‘agape’ love— not ‘eros’, which is romantic love. Romantic love does differ from agape love. It’s just that it must be built on the same spirit of sacrifice to be worth anything.
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