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What’s So Funny About Love?

I love…love.  There…I said it.  And that’s the simple truth of it.  I honestly can’t think of anything else I’d rather write about.  Stories about love are certainly nothing new.  While not always strictly monogamous, Art & Love have been in a LTR for centuries.  Just like people, love comes in many different shapes and guises.  I happen to prefer the lighter side of things.  I mean really…if I want to read something sad, I need look no further than the balance of my checking account.  That’d be enough to make anybody cry.

Please don’t take this as me saying there’s anything wrong with the more serious & passionate love stories out there.  If you love that, I’m not passing any judgments.  I read those too from time to time.  But I don’t tend to connect with the characters in those stories as much.  It’s like I don’t really get it.  They might as well take place in another galaxy; on the planet Angstia…it’s that foreign to me as an individual.  For me, the drama is what happens later on down the road…after it all goes to shit.  You know…when your left sucking down a bottle of red wine and snarfing up a bag of Hershey’s kisses trying to figure out what the hell just happened?  That’s the real-life yucky love, part.

The stories that tend to interest me the most are when the characters themselves are their own worst enemies.  Maybe that’s because in my own experience, no one can ruin a relationship faster than I can.  It’s my special gift, LOL.  It’s like being on a date where you like the guy so much you wind up spending the entire evening having an argument with yourself over what is/isn’t the right thing to say and you wind up not listening to a damn thing your dream date has said all night.  Always makes an impression…just not the kind you were hoping for. 

Perhaps you’re the type who’s been dating a guy you’ve deemed to be - too hot for you, out of your league.  As opposed to jumping up and down, happy with your sudden windfall of manly goodness.  You drive by his house fourteen times in one night to make sure he actually is spending the night alone like he said he was.  Both of these scenarios can possibly be written in more than one style or tone.  I just seem to always go for the lovably neurotic, charmingly dysfunctional, or even down-right batty, slap-stick I Love Lucy style.  I can’t help myself…it’s where I live and where I love.

I think love is funny.  It makes you say things you didn’t mean to, do things you’ve made fun of others for doing in the past, and can alter your personality in ways that would make Jekyll & Hyde’s head spin. There’s a reason I checked my house for hidden cameras after seeing the first episode of Ally McBeal all those years ago. That character was me…with a vagina.    

With my first book, Self Preservation, I wanted to capture that feel you get when you go out with a group of friends and find yourselves mixed up in all sorts of shenanigans.  When the one simple act of say…trying to make your ex-boyfriend jealous leads you down a rabbit hole, taking you to a place you hadn’t intended going. 

Whether it be writing or just hanging out, I personally like to spend my time laughing and having fun if at all possible.  I’m the type of guy who always found that the man with the fun flirty banter had me dropping my panties much faster than the one with the perfect abs and nice round butt.  Maybe that’s just me?  Either way, grab yourself a pitcher of frozen margaritas along with a copy of my book.  I think you’ll have a good time.

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For more information regarding Ethan Day, his book Self Preservation, and his upcoming stories, please visit him at http://www.ethandayonline.com/

Self Preservation can be purchased from Loose Id right here.

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COMMENTS

Maurya:
Thank goodness for your sense of humor!!! Keep writing the funny books...I love them
Psst....just send me Dreaming so I can see if it's as funny;)

Victor J. Banis:
Sounds like me. Here's a poem that applies: Everybody has a mouth, an arrangement very neat. Some are filled with words, and some are filled with feet. I'm the latter.

Victor

Ethan Day:
I'm gonna pretend you wrote that poem for me, Victor. True or not and while perhaps not the most romantic...I'll take what I can get. ; )

No way, Maurya. I cant give you a copy cause I didnt bring enough for the rest of the class. Always trying to get me in trouble!

BookWenches:
No doubt about it, Funny = Sexy. Planet Angst is overcrowded enough as it is! --Bobby D Whitney

Ethan Day:
I'm with you! Might as well take all the happy we can get when we can get it.

Sheila Gallagher:
I love humor in my love stories. I like to laugh. If I wanted to cry I hang around with certain family members that could make a hyena cry. Keep the humor coming.

Ethan Day:
I'll do my best, Sheila! Thanks for stopping by!

mistry89:
I confess that I read both, but try to avoid the extreme edges of the spectrum - I reserve melodrama for family and crack!fic for fandom :) So I was delighted to read Self Preservation, as I was in exactly the right mood to get the most fun out of it (that's another important thing for me - if I'm not in the mood for a particular style of book, then I wait until I know I will give it a fair shot). A big part of the enjoyment I get out of books comes from those I re-read - these are the stories that can lift your mood when you feel out-of-sorts, comfort you when illness strikes and cleanse the palate when you know you Are Not Amused By The World At All. That's where SP is. Thank you, Ethan - I'm looking forward to [i]Dreaming Of You[/i. Cheers :)]

Ethan Day:
Thank you so much for that Mistry. I'm delerious to have anyone read Self Preservation once. To be considered worthy of a re-read...I think that has to be the best compliment in world. You just made my day!!