Young Writers Society

Is any one else a hopless romantic like moi?

I consider myself a hopless romantic because i read tons of romance novels and watches tons of romance movies.

Define Romanticism...

If you're talking about flowers,love.etc. then no, I am not a hopeless Romantic.

I'm one, I love being my girlfriend and always am romantic with her. So yeh I am.

I personally feel that if you regard yourself as a romantic you aren't one at all.

In the love romantic sense, I can't say I am. While I love writing love stories, I don't read a lot of romance novels or watch many of those movies, mostly because they seem very shallow to me, When it comes to deeper romance, then I suppose I can be.

If we are talking about the literary movement romanticism, I would definitely call myself a romantic. I tend to have excessive description of nature and my stories are riddled with symbolism as well as an exaggeration of all things mystic.

I concider myself a hopeless romantic because i hope and pray for a romance that will never exist with the perfect guy who will never exist. All of my favorite movies are romantics and many of my favorite books are too. I'm only hopeless because only those who can be helpped can have hope.

I don't, and I'm not. I dislike the fact that there always has to be romance in a story/film. That's not always a bad thing, like Aragorn and Arwen, Will and Elizabeth, the Doctor and Rose, but it can get a bit much. Out of all my characters, only one of them ever falls in love, and then the relationship is doomed. People say I'm cynical.

-Twit

I'm a romantic, insofar as being opposed to anything altogether practical. I don't think that, as a writer, you can claim yourself to be a romantic anymore; someone has to do it for you.

As far as romance (in this sense of the word) goes, I'm not sure whether I am or not. I'll let you know when I find someone worth romancing.

I am =X Though sometimes i wish i wasn't because when i go out with friends and we see a film with romance in it; i get all emotional and i have to turn myself off to stop myself crying XD *fails*

I don't believe anyone younger than 23 can be in love. You can love but just not be in it, which i guess makes me unromantic. At the same time while i don't seek out any romance in books, or films i find it always makes it more interesting. DRAMA
Just a side kinda funny note I once read something by a psychiatrist saying that romance novels were porn for women.

MisterWaffles wrote:I personally feel that if you regard yourself as a romantic you aren't one at all.

Winner. That said, I think I may be, but then again, I may not be. Time will only tell.

I am, in the sense of true, passionate love. Not just infatuation. I call myself a "hapless romantic." And I hope that one day I will fall hopelessly in love, although only time will tell. This side of me definitely makes no small appearance in my book.

ChurlishLassy wrote:I don't believe anyone younger than 23 can be in love. You can love but just not be in it, which i guess makes me unromantic.

Ok 23????? Did you just pull that age out of a hat or something? I just want to know, why a person who turns 23 can suddenly be in love while when they were 22 they couldn't. I don't mean to be rude or anything but I so totally don't get your logic. Not that I have ever been in love or anything, so I can't really talk but I just found it so fascinating, 23 seems like such a random number.

I am a sucker for romantic books and movies, my favorite movie being Ever After.

I do have the problem that I tend to get way too emotionally involved with movies and books and then the tears come. Seriously, I cry so much in books and movies. I cried when Boromir died (in the movie), in Ice Age, in The Sisterhood of the Travelling pants, when I read Charlottes Webb, even in CARS!!!!!!!

Crying for books or movies doesn't make you a hopeless romantic.

But if you don't fall in love before 23 you wont know what it is when you get it, and then you'll end up being very confused.


It just depends on what kind of sad romance it is, Jack staying in the water so Rose can have the door is crying romantic material right there.