In past years, talking about love has been fairly straightforward here at the Blood-Red Pencil blog. We mostly examined love from the standpoint of romance from assorted angles. This year, the theme of love has gotten a little more complicated, thanks to politics. Where is the love, when finding even kindness is a challenge? Maybe we need to look at the different aspects of love and how we practice it to give us some insight - our team will do that this blogging month. For now, let's think about it in the context of our writing. What do we do to give our book characters some love? From a Facebook prompt by Gary Chapman, I applied his five love languages to a few of my characters and gained some interesting insights. I'll write more about that this month, when I review his book, The 5 Love Languages , for #FridayReads. How about love of place? Do you treat your fictional settings like a character, exploring the moods and nuances as though the location were a character...