As you might suspect, today is National Love Note Day. Since we read and write romance here, it’s a good national day to celebrate. What can be more touching than a simple love note? Whether short or long, it will leave the receiver with a wonderful feeling. The note will lighten someone’s heart. Although this blog is all about romance, a love note might be for a family member or a friend. They all need to be reminded that we love them and that they brightened our lives.
As I was looking through my books, twenty-six at last count, I didn’t find any with a real love note. How can that be? No love notes? I’ve got notes from one character to another, but none of them are real love notes. The book I just sent to my editor, Puppy Love and Christmas Joy, has a note, but it’s a note of apology. That book will be out sometime in November and makes number twenty-seven. I will definitely have to put a love note in my next book.
The closest I’ve come to having a love note in any of my stories is the song the heroine wrote and sang to the hero in A Song to Call Ours. Earlier in the book, they kiss, and the heroine tells the hero that there will be no more kisses. Her dreams are in Nashville, not the tiny town where he lives. The hero boldly claims that they will kiss again, and she will be the one asking for the kiss. When she finally realizes he is right, she composes a song. Now I’m not a songwriter or even a poet, so I only give the reader a few lines of the song. Here it is.
Please kiss me once.
Kiss me twice.
Kiss me for the rest of my life.
Here’s what the hero is thinking when he hears the song in a crowded auditorium in Nashville.
Mitch wished Amanda would look his way, so he’d know if this was meant for him. Maybe she didn’t have a clue where he was sitting. Or maybe she didn’t even know if he was there after the way he had dismissed her request to bring Charlotte to the concert. He’d given her a negative response, so maybe this wasn’t meant for him at all but some other guy. The thought made him sick.
Trying not to let negativity dominate his thoughts, Mitch listened to the chorus again. Did the song harken back to the challenge he’d given her after the kiss they’d shared? He wanted that to be true. Could he talk to her backstage after the concert, or would he have to wait until the party at Willow’s place? Either way he would let Amanda know that if moving to Nashville to win her heart was his only option, he was ready to make that move.
Have you ever written or received a love note? I may not get to read your responses when this blog post appears because we will be traveling out of the country. If I have the opportunity, I will look at the post, but I don’t know what our internet access will be. I will give away an ebook copy of A Song to Call Ours after we return home to one person who leaves a comment.
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Merrillee Whren is an award-winning author who writes inspirational romance. She is the winner of the 2003 Golden Heart Award for best inspirational romance manuscript presented by Romance Writers of America. She has also been the recipient of the RT Reviewers’ Choice Award and the Maggie Award for Excellence. She is married to her own personal hero, her husband of thirty plus years, and has two grown daughters. She has lived in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Chicago and Florida but now makes her home in the Arizona desert. When she’s not writing, she spends her free time playing tennis or walking while she does the plotting for her novels.
Neither for me.
My husband and I corresponded by letter before we were married. I still have many of his letters. Some of them included the days, hours, and minutes until our wedding. This was before cell phones and the Internet.
I did receive a love letter once. Well it was half love letter half apology, wanting me to take him back but it did not work in his favor.
Hi Merrillee! This retiree loves quirky holidays. Personally I think LOVE NOTES take many forms – letters, cards, e-mails, texts and the occasional note. Depends how the sender wants to communicate. Being married 50 years while hubby and I while dating and living 350 miles apart communicated with LOVE letters. My 6 year old granddaughter lives 70 miles away and while we FaceTime several times a month, she enjoys receiving mail. So I send cards with stickers inside or small packages and lots of hugs and kisses and LOVE from her OMA. My 3 sons and older grandkids (ages 18, 16, & 10) but I see them 4 times a week, since I take my granddaughter to school Monday thru Thursday. Sending them all LOVE texts today. LOVE NOTES can be romantic, but can also personify I Corinthians 13 to friends and family. Safe travels and best wishes.
I don’t think I’ve ever received or sent a love note, my husband and I always exchange cards on our anniversary though.
Safe journey on your travels.
I received a love note from my Mom once, a long time ago. I received letters from a man I had a crush on when I was 12, he was 24, not love letters, but still.
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So many!! My husband & I were high school sweethearts in the time before everyone had a cell phone, when you paid by the minute & texting didn’t exist, so we wrote lots of notes back & forth. We had a spiral notebook we passed back & forth between classes that we would write notes in instead of paying attention in class. 😆 I still have lots of the notes we wrote, but no idea what happened to that notebook 🙃
I have never written or received a love note.
No I haven’t received that I remember except from my grandma when she was living I saved all her cards and still have them as she died in 2020. Sometimes I re read them .
Yes to both. I have all my love letters I received from my hubby from the time we were having a long-distance relationship and I saved them in a box because I treasure them.
We did when we were working different shifts. Not so much now that we are both home together all day. Thank you so much for sharing. Have a fabulous trip. God bless you.
haven’t really received a love note. I had a friend who often left notes in different places for his wife to find. sometimes it was found at a different time.
Hope you are having a great time traveling.
I recieved a love note when I was in high school, before texting and such was a thing.
I wrote full love letters to my now husband (who still keeps most of them) and to another sweetheart I had before, abroad… to the one abroad, in English. But, as he spoke English better than he wrote it, I received, in exchange, only love notes on postcards and pressed flowers. I still have them, 33 years later…