Monday, March 24, 2014

Cold Juices Hot Flash

Confession: my creative juices went cold when I finally got around to writing this post for my blog day. I've had a week and a half of traveling and being on a tight schedule - my mind is sleep deprived and numb.

I scanned through some old blogs hoping I'd find something for our hot and cold theme. Nothing. Whew, sent me into a hot flash. I settled on recycling the following short blog.


ROMANCE - First word that pops into your head?

Love…chocolate…kiss…diamonds…moonlight? Romance drives me, and I can’t get enough. But I need help explaining the word to the male gender. I’m not saying all men fall short on the romance-understanding scale, but I’ve found most don’t get the difference between sex and romance. Ladies, tell me the first word that pops into your head when you think of romance, and then give me your take on explaining my word – Romance – to a clueless male.

If there are any males tuning into this blog, I pose the same challenges to you.

A “clueless male” excerpt from my book, Sleeping with the Lights On:

Wesley appeared behind me, arms encircling my waist while planting an open, mouth-sucking kiss on my neck. “Mmmm, you smell better than the food.”

8 comments:

Margo Hoornstra said...

Brenda. Exactly! Hmmmm. Is THAT why we love them?

Jannine Gallant said...

For a woman, romance = cuddling. For a man, cuddling = well, you know where I'm going with this! LOL You're so right about your take on this, Brenda.

Leah St. James said...

Too funny, Brenda! One time I heard Toby Keith being interviewed about writing love songs. (And he has written some pretty steamy love songs in his career.) He said (paraphrasing), you just write all the kinds of things you would never actually say to a woman. :-)

Brenda Whiteside said...

Thanks for commenting. I've been out of it with food poisoning. Glad you enjoyed.

Alicia Dean said...

Sorry about the food poisoning! Yikes...and sorry I'm late. I agree, men are not exactly experts in the field of romance. My former RWA chapter had a session this month where they invited 5 men to sit on a panel and answer 'romance' questions. I'm sure that was quite interesting!

Alicia Dean said...

Sorry about the food poisoning! Yikes...and sorry I'm late. I agree, men are not exactly experts in the field of romance. My former RWA chapter had a session this month where they invited 5 men to sit on a panel and answer 'romance' questions. I'm sure that was quite interesting!

Diane Burton said...

Men really are from another planet. Great post, Brenda.

Brenda Whiteside said...

Alicia, that would've been great to hear! Right on, Diane.