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Love is in the air

ove is in the air this month for everyone, including your writing group. We’ve all experienced love and heartache, from the love for a new born child, to the love for our parents, the heady heights of teenage first love and that first rejection to finding ‘the one’, and new love after divorce. All the emotions are there – excitement, butterflies fluttering in the stomach, anxiety, happiness, longing, joy, etc, so why not use them to their best advantage in your writing?

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