DON'T WORRY: ROMANCE IS STILL ALIVE

NEVER FEAR—ROMANCE IS STILL ALIVE

I know—I haven’t posted anything on my romance blog for months. My bad. But I have been working. I have two books I’m trying to finish, plus a romance short story I’m writing for a contest submittal. I have been thinking about romance stories, though. There are several movie scenes that I feel embody romance in one way or another. Here are some of them.

Castaway: https://youtu.be/4aM1DjtaeF8

This scene is more about the promise of things to come, and the potential for love to blossom again for both Chuck and Bettina. They deserve each other.

 Last Samurai: https://youtu.be/Ml6PV-OSpWs

This short scene is without a single word of dialogue, but the emotions are thick enough to cut with Algren's katana sword. This is my favorite love scene.

  We Bought a Zoo: https://youtu.be/MsTBY4mqlbo

Maybe Dylan and Lillie are just kids, but this exudes true innocent love. It's too bad we can't hold on to that when we become adults.

 The Notebook: https://youtu.be/2dPcq5sIXFQ

Instead of showing the steamy, emotional scenes of young Noah and Allie, I choose instead the elderly versions of those same two when she has a brief moment of remembering whose she and he are. This is the love story we should remember.

Braveheart: https://youtu.be/jxbvHg6a3sM

This is real love. This is what I seek to embody in my stories. The look in her eyes when she sees the thistle she gave him before that he kept all those years—that's true love.