Chapter 33
Platonic Love Stories
There are love stories that do not include traditional love or romance. They are of the heart but not of the body. Otherwise the rules of love stories still apply. You use the same tools to accomplish love blossoming between two people. Actually it doesn’t even have to be people.
It can be between a boy and a horse in The Black Stallion. Jack Nicholson and a dog named Verdell in As Good As It Gets. A little boy and an alien in E.T. Love is love. Vulnerability, empathy, understanding, these things grow when you write them, even with no hormones involved.
Sometimes it’s a relief to have a strong relationship between a man and a woman that evolves into friendship and nothing else.
In Norma Rae (1979, written by Irving ...
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