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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
I STILL want to be a writer.
So anxious to read my first paragraph of my first draft I forgot the rule..don't tell anyone what you are writing.
So I go into detail about the heroine wearing a body stocking and I am met with "What is a body stocking?"
I explain that the heroine is on a movie set and she is asked to play a nude scene.
I go on to give the definition of a body stocking comparing it to a leotard.
"So why doesn't she wear a leotard?"
I say that she is not a dancer she is movie star trying to be modest,
"And why does she want to be modest?"
She comes from a strict upbringing and she is shy.
"So why is she making a smutty film?"
By now I am trying to distinguish smut from the license to keeping a story moving along.
Back to the drawing board or the keyboard.
Now, I just have to avoid explaining the nude body stocking versus the nude leotard...
So I go into detail about the heroine wearing a body stocking and I am met with "What is a body stocking?"
I explain that the heroine is on a movie set and she is asked to play a nude scene.
I go on to give the definition of a body stocking comparing it to a leotard.
"So why doesn't she wear a leotard?"
I say that she is not a dancer she is movie star trying to be modest,
"And why does she want to be modest?"
She comes from a strict upbringing and she is shy.
"So why is she making a smutty film?"
By now I am trying to distinguish smut from the license to keeping a story moving along.
Back to the drawing board or the keyboard.
Now, I just have to avoid explaining the nude body stocking versus the nude leotard...
Saturday, August 11, 2012
So, I Want to Be a Writer..
I know the moment that I knew I wanted to be a writer. Or I knew the moment that someone else knew that I should be a writer.
I used to trade Erma Bombeck quips with my dear Mother-in-law. We loved the episodes in Erma's columns where she stashed yarn in the chandeliers and put an onion in the oven at three in the afternoon, turn on the oven and the supper aroma began. Family members entered the house anticipating a great dinner..Ha.
So my husband told me that I could do that. "Put an onion in the oven? I said.
"No, my darling wife. Write like Erma Bombeck.."
He never said the phrase "darling wife" often so I thought he was serious.
I was petrified.
Quipping I could do..writing probably not.
However years later, after reading hundred of romance novels I thought to myself.."Why not."
However I found that there ws not a lot of quipping and silliness in romance novels.
No there was a lot of angst, anticipation and a whole lot of drama.
I had to learn to describe my protagonist and my antagonist.
In my vocabulary, antanogist meant someone who antagonizes and who wants to romance a pest?
So I am on my quest. I am learning to write with many craft books and observations in the books that I am reading.
And that onion in the oven is coming in handy now. My husband thinks that he is getting dinner soon but I am too busy to cook so I will entice him with the cooking aromas and memories of long ago.
Thank you, Erma Bombeck.
I used to trade Erma Bombeck quips with my dear Mother-in-law. We loved the episodes in Erma's columns where she stashed yarn in the chandeliers and put an onion in the oven at three in the afternoon, turn on the oven and the supper aroma began. Family members entered the house anticipating a great dinner..Ha.
So my husband told me that I could do that. "Put an onion in the oven? I said.
"No, my darling wife. Write like Erma Bombeck.."
He never said the phrase "darling wife" often so I thought he was serious.
I was petrified.
Quipping I could do..writing probably not.
However years later, after reading hundred of romance novels I thought to myself.."Why not."
However I found that there ws not a lot of quipping and silliness in romance novels.
No there was a lot of angst, anticipation and a whole lot of drama.
I had to learn to describe my protagonist and my antagonist.
In my vocabulary, antanogist meant someone who antagonizes and who wants to romance a pest?
So I am on my quest. I am learning to write with many craft books and observations in the books that I am reading.
And that onion in the oven is coming in handy now. My husband thinks that he is getting dinner soon but I am too busy to cook so I will entice him with the cooking aromas and memories of long ago.
Thank you, Erma Bombeck.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
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