When you write romance, you have to structure a lot of heartbreak scenes. I usually get all caught up in the feels and browse social media for a while to find how other people have expressed what I'm trying to convey. This one is pretty relevant to what's happening in Shallow Falls right now:

You can't beat Tolkien when it comes to grand ideas and beautiful prose. I love this one from The Hobbit . The King Beneath the Mountains The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run....

As a 70s and 80s kid and a certified book hound, I grew up reading anything and everything. We lived in a small town, so the days the...