Ripped from the Pages of Real Romance!
So many words. So little plot.
In my new job, I am being exposed to uses of the English language that I do not ordinarily encounter. After a few too many over-the-top similies and some overwrought exposition, I started writing down outstanding examples of this oh-so-specific form of fiction: the romance. Inspired, I have decided that as an exercise, and also maybe in order to understand the minds of the authors whose work I am nit-picking, I will take the weekly collection of these quotes and use them to construct my own brief excerpt from a non-existent romance novel. I will do my very best to adhere to the overall style found in this genre. The challenge will be to create something around the selected quotes, which by the end of a week will be an amalgamation from multiple books and authors, and successfully incorporate them into a story segment. Phrases highlighted in purple are word-for-word stolen from actual manuscripts that are being published. Phrases in blue are cliches or expressions that come up time and time again, regardless of author or book. Further, if the punctuation between sentences is also highlighted, then the whole segment came together. If it is black, then they are two parts that I have forced together. The rest is all me, and my fervent, overactive imagination.
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