Love At A Higher Level
- Posted by Essays Blog in Essays Blog |
- August 19th, 2009 |
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Is it possible to achieve a higher romantic love than the resigned complacency we accompany all around us? If so, can it be sustained for long? Would many people really deprivation it? Careful, nonfiction literature is replete with books, courses, and seminars on how to achieve romantic or marital bliss. But few of us appear to achieve it, and fewer allay ever sustain it. Worsened yet is that many people appear disinterested or, worsened yet, disheartened.
Far fewer are works of fiction that explore much higher love as literature for readers to savour and enjoy. Coinage of Commitment was written to explore this rarified dominion. It attempts to go where few have dared to trample, investigation the limits of what a couple can achieve, the altitude of orbit they might be able to fly to.
Don’t be misled. This is not an easy issue. Life imposes a lot of restraints on reaching the emotional altitude we are discussing. And it cannot be obtained for free. It requires cerebration as advantageously as feeling, planning as advantageously as carefree fulfillment. It requires risk action, and thither are payments and sacrifices that have to be made. So would it be deserving it? What would you be choice to give to obtain it? What if thither was just a chance to obtain it? What so?
How does this particular romantic ambition affect account production? Advantageously, for one abstraction, at least in my analyze, it means that the main characters need to accept an intellectual as advantageously as an emotional journey to attain the level they attempt. They need this just to get prepared and be capable of what they deprivation to experience emotionally. And this opens up all sorts of literary issues to explore. How do our characters come to deprivation much an exalted level of fulfillment for themselves? What conditions in their lives produce a hunger for it? What do they do to nourish its development? Just how do they find their artifact? How are they different from their peers?
Deciding to compose a novel featuring higher love made the manuscript harder to sell. This is not acceptable fare; it defines a new category, hence it was viewed with distrust as a risky project. Many agents dismissed it out of hand and refused to read distribution chapters. Others who did, refused to change their mindset, and misunderstood the activity. One criticism I got was that the characters didn’t appear quite…typical. Duh? Of course they’re not typical. How could they be?
Another criticism was writing communication. Coinage has plenty of plot movement, including any exciting heroics, but it features more reflection on the main characters’ feelings and their emotional evolution and movement points. Agents and editors who criticized this approach as antique had nothing to offer as an alternate to describing characters loving at a higher level. Simply describing plot developments from an action standpoint won’t cut it for a activity with this ambition.
I portray higher love as something feasible, but difficult to achieve, hence likely to be attained by real few. When Wayne and Nancy achieve it, they feel that they have no one to compare themselves with. I believe that is the correct answer for our current culture and social situation, but thither is no data on this that I am aware of, hence it is difficult to rely on anything but your own experience. I heartily greet reader views on this issue.