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erastesThe first day, establishing a new "normal".
Back at work, and people are being fairly nice. Makes a bleeding change.
My creative writing workshop starts tomorrow, with the Divine Mr Tom (who I haven't met, but he sounds like Ian McKellern so my imagination insists that he will look like it. Of course he will ACTUALLY look like Bunsen Honeydew, and I will be dashed. However, HE'S probably hoping I look like Angelina Jolie and when Bibendum turns up, he'll be pretty disappointed too, so we are even on that score. I shall have to seduce him with my literary genius. *snorts*)
Which means of course that I won't be able to take advantage of Orange Wednesdays and get a free ticket to the cinema each week. grrr.
But I am dreading the first night of the course:
Writer One: Hello, I'm Susan and I write children's stories. My current WIP is about a mouse who has to stop her village from flooding.
Writer Two: Hello, I'm Bill and I write naval adventures. My current WIP is about the battle of the Nile.
Writer Three: Hello, I'm George and I write fantasy. My current WIP is about a boy born in New York who finds his mother was an elf.
Writer Four: Hello, I'm Erastes and I write gay porn. In breeches. My current WIP is about a 40 year old sexually repressed married stockbroker who falls in love with the next door neighbours' 17 year old son.
*stampede of feet heading for the exit.*
And I discovered that watching "The Usual Suspects" - even though I hadn't seen the movie before - when I knew who Kaiser Soze was in advance through spoilers, was a complete waste of time.
Ok. Off to try and reach my 750 words... Edward and Alec are in a car, and Edward is ruminating on the fact that the car has bench seats (normal in 1960) and that one swift reckless left turn would slide Alec along the seat towards him....
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Date: 2007-01-09 01:39 pm (UTC)...and I instantly thought "no, no, that has to be a right turn or he'll slide away" - then remembered that you're of course talking about UK cars. Oops.
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Date: 2007-01-09 02:29 pm (UTC)"What are you working on so hard."
"Notes for a panel discussion at a conference."
"Really what about?"
long pause, "How to write gay porn directed at women."
The amusing part was for the next hour he couldn't do anything by stay on the very edge of the seat. Snerk.
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Date: 2007-01-09 02:38 pm (UTC)i just started taking a workshop i was invited to because a woman liked my writing. she'd read one of my stories; however, the group is a literary fiction writing workshop. i'm happy about this, but i am nervous about presenting them with anything sexual. the first story i submitted for critique was actually a non erotic story, my first ever. but this next one, well it's not erotic but sexually graphic. it's weird to be the only pervy one in a group, well disclosed at least. too bad you can't take an erotica writing workshop. but there are few of those. i took one here with patrick califia and it was great. good luck with your class and remember, just be you (or whatever persona you'd like to be ;)
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Date: 2007-01-09 02:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-09 03:40 pm (UTC)I do go off occasionally on tirades about the "women with dicks" you find in some of it. I want my men to be men.
*g*
Date: 2007-01-09 05:36 pm (UTC)Don't be ...
Date: 2007-01-09 05:38 pm (UTC)Out of those, there must be one or two who like gay porn. :) They might giggle and blush, chances are, you'll pique somebody's interest. :)
Have courage! Porn is a genre like any other. It's about the craft. That's what I tell them, anyway. :)
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Date: 2007-01-09 06:11 pm (UTC)And I discovered that watching "The Usual Suspects" - even though I hadn't seen the movie before - when I knew who Kaiser Soze was in advance through spoilers, was a complete waste of time.
Funny. I'm the complete opposite. I like re-watching films, even if they have a twist and I already know it, like "The Sixth Sense" or "Fight Club". I love to look for the deception, how the film maker plays with expectation and perception to make us fall for the wrong assumptions.
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Date: 2007-01-09 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-01-09 07:13 pm (UTC)I have no idea what to expect, I dare say there will be drabbling and stuff for critique..
ARGH! Homework!!!
It will be nice to meet real flesh and blood writers, I have so many virtual ones but no real life types.
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Date: 2007-01-09 07:15 pm (UTC)*G*
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Date: 2007-01-09 07:16 pm (UTC)Re: Don't be ...
Date: 2007-01-09 07:17 pm (UTC)I'll just tone the idea down a bit, and put myself forward as a romantic novelist rather than a pron-ist. Which is true, in a way.
*G*
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Date: 2007-01-09 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-09 08:07 pm (UTC)LOL, that was exactly my experience with seeing that movie. I had seen the last five minutes before at a friend's house and heard how amazing this movie is. Then an hour and a half into the movie I was just like "I'm confused as hell and why exactly should I give a shit?"
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Date: 2007-01-09 08:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-09 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-09 08:20 pm (UTC)And the spoiler I got? From Doctor Dolittle of all bloody things....
JX: 40-17
Date: 2007-01-09 09:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-09 09:04 pm (UTC)I so relate to this. "Hullo, I'm Predatrix. I used to write pornographic fanfic about male sarcastic-bastard antiheroes getting it on with each other. Now I write actual books about my *own* sarcastic-bastard antiheroes getting it on with each other. So I'll only get legal problems because I write porn, not about the intellectual property side of it. Questions?"
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Date: 2007-01-09 09:09 pm (UTC)And they are about 2k words away from their first snog...
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Date: 2007-01-09 09:12 pm (UTC)I can just see Susie Cutesiwootsi's aspiring Enid Blyton's face when she hears that I've had Lucius rogering Draco on a regular basis.
*hides face in hands*
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Date: 2007-01-10 10:25 pm (UTC)Still, when it comes to characterisation, men are still men no matter who they like to sleep with. That part of the chicks-with-dicks problem does bother me, and hopefully I manage to avoid that in my own writing. :S
I bet I would have a fun time explaining one of my WIPs to a writing group. "It's about an alcoholic 37yrold who had an incestuous relationship with his sister when they were younger, but she killed herself, and now he meets a 16yrold boy who he sort of sees his sister in, so he decides to seduce said 16yrold boy. And succeeds, despite a bad habit of calling the boy his sister's name at inoportune moments." Romance that's not messed up is so boring.
And in case you're wondering 'Who the hell is this person?', I found you via the Iris Print website, as I'm planning to submit to the "fairy tale and fantasy" anthology, and I'm considering buying the Connections anthology and saw a positive review for your story in it, so headed over here.
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Date: 2007-01-10 10:37 pm (UTC)(snerk)
I write happy, bouncy, romantic stories. They'd just make some people deeply scared...
Cheers, Pred'x
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Date: 2007-01-10 11:42 pm (UTC)*snorts*
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Date: 2007-01-11 07:48 pm (UTC)Someone, naming no writing partners, has just suggested "buggering with a joss stick". I think we'll keep the RPS out of it as well.