November 8, 2007
That first touch of passion
Written by RobynDeHart in Jaunty Post
I do remember my first kiss, quite clearly, but there’s not really much to say. I remember feeling like I had waited forever and that I must have been the last girl to get kissed. In retrospect, I think I was rather young. I was 14, he was 17 or 18, it was quite pleasant. But I didn’t feel sparks with a kiss until my first serious boyfriend two years after that. My own kissing history is not all that entertaining though so I wanted to talk about something different. The first kiss between the hero and heroine.
I love first kiss scenes, and I get very excited when I know I get to write one. I figure out how this scene will unfold by considering the heroine and what the perfect kiss for her would be. Does she need the hero to pull her mercilessly in his arms and kiss her senseless? Or would a slow, perfect seductive kiss work best? Perhaps she’s the type of heroine who will press herself against the hero and steal her own kiss. There are as many different first kisses as there are hero/heroine combinations and each one is unique and special in its own way. And as an author I am always eager to see how that first kiss is going to go as it generally says a lot about how that couple is going to interact through the rest of the book.
Some of my favorite first kisses are Jack and Amanda’s in Lisa Kleypas’ Suddenly You, Alicia and Stanton’s in Celeste Bradley’s Seducing the Spy, and Evie and Saint from Suzanne Enoch’s London’s Perfect Scoundrel. So what about you? Do you have any favorite first kisses?
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Shana Says:
I love how you consider what the heroine needs when you write the first kiss, Robyn. That must be why your kissing scenes are so wonderful.
brownone Says:
For me it’s Evie and Sebastian’s first kiss in “Devil in Winter” by Lisa Kleypas. It occurs after thier “shotgun” wedding and his wrist is bound to hers and he’s freaked out by it. He tries to untie it but she won’t let him and he just plants one on her. I thought is was so romantic because he was so drawn to her and just did not understand why!
AndreaW Says:
Ah, first kisses . . .
I would have to say that one of my most recent memorable favorites is Emma and Harry’s from AND THEN HE KISSED HER by Laura Lee Guhrke. *sigh*
Margo Maguire Says:
I’m the worst! My favorite kiss is the one from the book I happen to be reading at any given time. Romance writers really know how to write this … so I have many favorites!
Haven Rich Says:
OH my, I so recall Evie and Saint’s kiss from London’s Perfect Scoundrel and the one by Lisa Kleypas in Suddenly You. Those are some HAWT kisses!!