Sloan Parker

Once a week I post a quote I love. It may be related to writing, inspiration, lgbt issues, my own life, or anything else that interests me. So here’s this week’s Quote I Love…

I’ve been working on revisions for my current work-in-progress, Breathe. Part of the goal of this last round of edits was to increase the romantic tension and build up the emotion in every scene.

Focusing on the love and desire in my work puts me in a romantic mood, so today I’m sharing some of my favorite quotes about love and passion.

Hope you enjoy these.

“And sometimes when we touch
The honesty’s too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Til we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides”
– Dan Hill

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“You’re nothing short of my everything.”
– Ralph Block

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“We are each of us angels with only one wing.
And we can only fly while embracing each other.”
– Lucian de Croszonza

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“We lie in each other’s arms
eyes shut and fingers open and
all the colors of the world
pass through our bodies like strings of fire.”
– Marge Piercy

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“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
– Aristotle

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“You were made perfectly to be loved – and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“I love you not only for what you are,
But for what I am when I’m with you.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

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“Where there is smoke, there’s fire. Where there’s you, there’s desire.”
– Unknown

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“Passion… it can hurt so much sometimes, we can hardly stand it. Without passion, maybe we could all have some sort of peace in this life… but then, we’d be hollow. Without passion, we would be dead.”
– Unknown

Aren’t they lovely? Hope you enjoyed them.

Sloan Parker

Elmo and Hugh Jackman are talking about concentration. And let me say, that is some concentration. Elmo kinda looks constipated. But Hugh Jackman is one of the finest looking men alive. How many guys can make talking to a puppet look sexy? There is not one inch of that man’s body I don’t want to…wait, I think I’m sharing too much here. Enjoy the video. It’s cute.

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Was it good for you?

Sloan Parker
www.sloanparker.com

Once a week, I post about something I’m loving (tv, movies, books, art, photos, romances, authors, or anything else) that I’ve seen or read about recently. So here is this week’s For the Love of…

Please note: the site linked below contains explicit gay imagery and nude artwork.

I love browsing the Adonis Art Gallery, “the premier gallery of art of the male form.” The gallery and their website include “limited edition prints, art books and a wide range of greeting cards featuring male art.”

Adonis Art “was established in London in 1995. It is situated in the Earl’s Court district of central London – one of the most gay-friendly neighbourhoods in the city.”

Check out their Erotic Art page for beautiful erotic figures, paintings, watercolors, explicit drawings, and much more. Some really lovely stuff here, folks. You can shop and browse until your heart’s content. I found a few pieces I’d love to have in my house.

Enjoy!

Sloan Parker
www.sloanparker.com

Here’s a video of Deniz & Roman from Alles was zählt (All That Matters), a German soap opera, set to the song “Now and Forever.” This one is lovely, especially the parts at the end with them on the couch. Nice!

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Has anyone watched the show? The clips with English subtitles are on YouTube if you’re interested. I’ve seen a few episodes but haven’t had the time to go back through all of them. I’ve heard great things about their storyline. If you’ve seen it or start watching it in the future let me know what you think. I’d love to hear about it.

Sloan Parker
www.sloanparker.com

Once a week, I post about something I’m loving (tv, movies, books, art, photos, romances, authors, or anything else) that I’ve seen or read about recently. So here is this week’s For the Love of …

I was telling some of my writer friends this week about how I use photos for inspiration when describing my characters and settings. I also use them to help describe physical actions (like kissing!). I love to find photos for what I call “almost kisses.” It’s that moment right before a kiss where the couple (or more!) is so close to touching lips to lips, but aren’t quite yet. In a photo, you can freeze that moment in time. In fiction, you can drag it out and build up the tension. It can be one of the most romantic moments, especially for a couple’s first kiss. Here are some good ones:

So what physical moment is the most romantic for you? Is it different in fiction than in real life?

Sloan Parker
www.sloanparker.com

(All photos are from photobucket.com and/or flickr.com.)

Once a week, I post about something I’m loving (tv, movies, books, art, photos, romances, authors, or anything else) that I’ve seen or read about recently. So here is this week’s For the Love of …

When I start thinking about my characters for a new story, I find a couple pictures for each. Nothing that looks exactly like them, but close enough to what I’m picturing that the photos help me get the descriptions from my head to the paper.

I’m a sucker for a good smile. It’s one of the physical traits that draw me to a person. So I always try to find one picture for each guy that has a smile. Something to look at when I’m writing a scene where he’s happy, when he’s falling in love — even if he doesn’t want to admit that.

So today, I thought I’d share some of the newer pictures I’ve found.  I haven’t used any of these yet, but they have some great smiles.

So what do you think? Do you like a good smile? What other aspects do you find attractive in a person?

Sloan Parker
www.sloanparker.com

(All photos are from photobucket.com and/or flickr.com. Please notify Sloan Parker if you are on the owner of any image(s) and do not wish for them to be posted on this site.)