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I don't usually comment about other people's takes on my novels, since it's not "proper" author thing to do.
But I do often sit back and analyze why I wrote a novel after it's done. Too much Lit & Cultural studies at uni, I guess.
But I do often sit back and analyze why I wrote a novel after it's done. Too much Lit & Cultural studies at uni, I guess.
This tweet made me sit up: https://twitter.com/JenniferRNN/status/1385602672410218497
"What is Love?" is a question I've been thinking about. What is romance in relation to love? Can you have romance without love? Love with out romance? How can we express love to others? To ourselves? How are sex, love, and attraction tied together? What about love in friendships?
What's the difference between alloromantic love and aromantic love? What's a deep platonic relationship? How can feelings change and shift? Friends to lovers, lovers to friends. Friendships lasting.
No one stays static in time. Emotions flow and change and ebb. How people connect and respond to each other changes, too. Nothing is perfect, but love does remain often, even if it changes.
And I guess, you can see this churning of thoughts coming out in various ways in my fiction as I ponder my own identity, how love works, what romance is, and how to see myself and others in fiction. There's a little thread woven into many of my recent books
I really don't have an answer to "what is love". I may never have one.
But I will leave you with a song that has stuck in my head since the day I heard it back in 1984:
But I will leave you with a song that has stuck in my head since the day I heard it back in 1984:
"And maybe love is letting people be just what they want to be..."
