Chapter 18

Soul Mates

Many of us believe in soul mates. Even more would love to believe in them. Two people who are fated to be together. Whose destiny is each other. Even more of us want to believe. The difficulty in writing this type of love story is that it requires that part of the story occurs outside of this world and these lives. In order to be destined, that destiny has to be designed or created somewhere outside of earth time and space. In heaven? In a previous life? This sort of thing. If you aspire to write one of these, it is workable, but you have to create the rules and then play by them, the way fantasy and sci-fi genre writers do.

Made in Heaven (1987, written by Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon) is one of those that literally ...

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