{"id":1762,"date":"2014-08-04T14:32:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T21:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2015-08-18T08:25:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T15:25:19","slug":"a-sucker-for-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/uk\/2014\/writing\/a-sucker-for-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"A SUCKER FOR ROMANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always been a sucker for romance. One \"Goneof my favorite books is the old classic, Gone With The Wind<\/a>,<\/strong> by Margaret Mitchell<\/a><\/strong>. The love story between Scarlett O\u2019Hara, the southern vixen, and Rhett Butler, the man who could not be tamed, resonated with readers everywhere.<\/p>\n

In real life, and in books and film, it seems that the guys or girls anyone wants are always the unattainable ones. Why is that? Maybe it\u2019s part of the hunt, the chase, knowing or sensing that if only we could get that elusive person, our world would be complete. We will have proven something.<\/p>\n

Or is it just nature\u2014that feeling we get when our eyes connect with that special someone and our body responds and we know that he or she is the one? Love is feeling you\u2019re six feet off the ground and floating on a cloud. Those initial feelings\u2014that lust, that desire\u2014builds and deepens over time, like a good wine that improves with age.<\/p>\n

So, given all of that, why wouldn\u2019t I write a romance<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0with that kind of dynamic? These\u00a0 stories sustains us all. They give us hope that there is someone out there that is the perfect fit. Well, not perfect, but as close to perfect as we can get. We meet, connect, mate, have children (or not) and live happily ever after. That\u2019s the dream. Life may not always be like that, but it\u2019s still the dream.<\/p>\n

\""Love<\/a>

“Love is like the wild rose-briar”….from a poem by Emily Bronte<\/p><\/div>\n

Though married many years to the love of my life, I continue to enjoy a good romance. Perhaps reading a well-told love story awakens those first delicious tingles we all get when we meet that certain someone.<\/p>\n

Are you a sucker for romance, too? Have certain novels touched you? What are your thoughts on why the romance genre has endured and manages to thrill no matter how old you are?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always been a sucker for romance. One of my favorite books is the old classic, Gone With The Wind, by Margaret Mitchell. 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