Quick thought.
Have you read An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott? It's a preachy, simplistic novel with some rather obvious plot twists and characterizations. Nonetheless it is one of my absolute favorite novels and I reread it about once a year. And I love it more every time.
While reading it yesterday I noticed a passage that I think should be the rallying cry of gen writers everywhere. Allow me to reproduce it.
Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them, the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone. So romancers had better let imagination paint for them that which is above all art, and leave their lovers to themselves during the happiest minutes of their lives.
Awww. Isn't that lovely?
While reading it yesterday I noticed a passage that I think should be the rallying cry of gen writers everywhere. Allow me to reproduce it.
Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them, the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone. So romancers had better let imagination paint for them that which is above all art, and leave their lovers to themselves during the happiest minutes of their lives.
Awww. Isn't that lovely?