Long ago, when I had my first serious crush on a girl, her older brother told me something I couldn't accept at the time...
"That's not love - that's 'puppy love.' You don't really love her; you're just physically attracted to her."
I was blown away. I found it hard, nigh unto impossible, to believe what he said. Protesting vehemently, I denied it. My love was true, my heart was pure.
After an additional half-century or so of contemplation, I have concluded that he was right.
Today, I admit my error, publicly, in Haiku form...
Love at First Blush
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📖Raw Advice to a Young Writer📖
A Haiku
Write to the gonads.
Sex sells, even when implied;
heart and mind will follow.
No, I'm not talking about porn or anything even remotely explicit.
All you need do is include the age-old tale of the natural attraction between a man and a woman in your stories, and you'll be much more likely to hold your reader's interest. I've written about this before in a "less plain, more gentle" format here:
What's At the Heart of a Story? - A Haiku
The message is still the same; love makes the world go 'round!
Writing Fundamentals
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