Today's meditation is about writing about various types of intimate experiences between characters. The author gives three examples of initimacy other than romantic intimacy; spiritual intimacy, medical intimacy, and initimacy experienced with animals, i.e., Jane Goodall and her chimpanzees, Diane Foosey and her mountain gorillas. In "For Further Reflection" he talks about how some writers are a "bit skittish" about writing about human intimacy, particularly sexual intimacy. However, to give your characters that three-dimensional quality the story may require doing just that and as a writer you will need to get beyond this issue.
In the "Try This" assignment we are asked to:
"1. Describe, in our journal, an intimate experience in a medical, spiritual, or romantic context.
2. Writea story about the way a romantic relationship is formed out of a nonromantic type of intimacy."
I am not going to do that today because each of the four stories I am currently working on all have these facets to them. Two include romantic intimacy, one of a couple who have just met and one of a young married couple. Two include the spiritual intimacy of good friends, both of which are at the just met stage but the point is to build these relationships into deep friendships. Also in the first romantic story is also the story of a family's initimate relationships, some good and some not so good.
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