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| Anna |
Posted - July 21 2007 : 3:36:10 PM
I didn't want to interrupt Explorer's writing so I made this thread.
Explorer,
One of the best things I like about your writing is the contemporary language you use like "you don't look sluttish"  . It makes them really more interesting.
Anna-
Thanks. I'm glad that someone notices.
But the word "slut" goes back a long way. Ned would have known it, and Veronica. They would surely have heard about "slutty" or "sluttish" behavior by women. However, when done between two sensual lovers who like what they're doing, it is far different than when Britney Spears or Paris Hilton act as they do in public.
I'm sure that if Veronica lived today, she wouldn't be photographed getting out of a car with her skirt riding up so high that anyone there, including photographers, could see that she wore no panties!
She'd wear cute panties for Ned in a flash, but not display them to the public. Actually, Jennifer O'Dell had a pair of "lucky" panties in a leopard print that she wore to the audition that got her the role as Veronica, and she went out and bought some more! I bet she looks terrific in them. But, like Veronica, only her lover gets to see her in them. (Well, maybe her doctor...) I think Jen and Veronica are a lot alike in many ways. She was ideal to play that role.
If you study how each of my characters speaks, they are all different, reflecting the times and their own personalities. Challenger is more formal, being older and more concious of his speech. He knows that he an icon of science and was raised largely in an earlier time, and he sounds like that. The others also usually sound like they are from the 1920 era, save when they use a phrase introduced to them by Finn, who came from 2033. She is less formal and more in tune with modern times. Her speech reflects that.
Explorer
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| Anna |
Posted - July 22 2007 : 06:19:40 AM
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Originally posted by Explorer
Anna-
or get nasty PM's from that crowd that so freely expressed their feeling that only their views mattered. That is regrettable, and I have NEVER been on another board where the members were bullied so much by rude people on a power trip. But my other board experience has been on hobby and historical boards, not with "fandoms".
Explorer
"There is nothing quite so exhilarating as to be shot at without effect." Sir Winston Churchill
You don't need to worry about negative pms. All good authors get them. There's always someone who just enjoys critisising your work.
I think it's really brave of you , I mean you faced quite obstacles and yet you didn't give up, you still write. I know from personal experience that it's quite hard. I once wrote some fics and edited them on fafniction net , and I got quite mean and negative reviews and I was so hurt I gave up.. I guess I shouldn't have, coz I got posotove reviews too.
Anyway, keep on writing!! There're lots of people including me who love your fics!!
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| Explorer |
Posted - July 22 2007 : 05:30:19 AM
Anna-
I pitied him, too. In, "The Crystal Skull", I had him decide to take his life in hand and go for what he wanted, and commit to her, at the risk of his (and Finn's) lives. Veronica is seeing a stronger Ned all the time, but he remains nice, and ever considerate of her. Of course, he does let her know what he likes, and is appreciative when she grants him his desires. I'm sure that would include baking him an apple pie, if they had any apples.
The reason why you never see words like "slut" used in other Fics is that they are almost all written by women. They tend to avoid that in Fics, most being the genteel, even naive, sort who find that word shocking or offensive. Most also write in Dreamsville. My stories are more gritty, realistic ones, more like serious detective stories or adventures.
If you ever do find some of the Modesty Blaise novels, you will see work more like mine, although the setting was modern, from the 1960's-1990's.
Robert B. Parker and David Lindsey also write hard edged fiction (detective novels) more like my material. Lindsey has a site, and Parker may. You can read sample chapters on Lindseys site, www.davidlindsey.com They are intended for an adult audience, and some of the content may shock younger or more sheltered readers. The same was true of the late Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer books.
I write for a male audience, because that's what I like to read. But I keep the ladies in mind, providing that they like some literary vitamins in their reading. The soft, pure romance stuff, I leave to others.
Yet, my love scenes and the interactions between the couples are very intensely romantic. The three couples are clearly in love, and I probe more deeply into their psyches and backgrounds than the TV show did. Also, more, I suspect than in most other Fics.
Because I have extensive background knowledge of that era and the sort of men who went on such expeditions and the equiment that they used, and because I know more about animals, etc., I can add detail that most other Fic writers simply do not know about. This, coupled with my masculine style of writing, makes my Fics unusual. They aren't for everyone, and they send many feminists shrieking in horror and indignation. If you want to see Roxton tamed, read others' work. If you want to see Marguerite become more mellow and admit that she wants to belong to Roxton, read my material. If she could jerk him around like some want her to, he wouldn't be the man that a real life Marguerite would want, unless she was a dominatrix. I think she wants a man who will chastise her if she gets too far out of line, and leave her thrilled that he did it! (And that did happen in two of my Fics, although she goaded him into it in one case, just because it excited her for him to stand up to her and set her limits. In fact, she was a bit smirky in telling Finn how she manipulated him into doing that, so that both of them could feel that each had acknowledged her submission to him, to some degree.) Keep in mind that these stories are set in a day when men were men, and women were darned glad of it!  ) That said, John Roxton likes some spirit in his woman, and I feel sure that he'd tolerate more from her than would most men of that day. They would be more nearly equal partners, but she would look to him to make her feel that she had finally found her personal knight on a white horse, the prince to save her from herself and from the world.
I also looked differently than most have at Challenger and Finn, seeing vastly more there than did the TV show. Challenger was sometimes presented as a bumbling, ego-filled near -buffoon. This could not realistically be the scientific genius and man of vision who organized and led that expedition. And he would have human qualities that Finn could bring out, as she in turn found him meeting her deep -seated emotional needs. Neither was treated fairly by the writers, just being used to advance the plots in some shows. They would never have gotten them together as I have, simply because they didn't want to pay Lara Cox as a regular actress/continuing character, let alone mate a couple with that much age difference. The average TV viewer would be shocked. They are not, in the main, original, creative thinkers. They stay within stereotypes. My Fics appeal more to the individualist capable of original thought.
Briefly, the reason why my writing is so different is that I come from an adventure/detective story background. Most Fic writers dwell in fantasy land. They want to ride fairy unicorns. I want to have my heroes shoot rogue elephants or man-eating lions, or quell native uprisings in colonial Kenya. That is all Politically Incorrect to most Star Trek fans.
And so, here we are. Thankfully, some have liked my Fics, and can now say so, without fear of being condemned for supporting stories that Certain Persons on the former Official board found distasteful or too masculine for their preferences. I used to get PM's telling me how much some liked my Fics, but they were afraid to post to that effect, lest they be banned from that board, or get nasty PM's from that crowd that so freely expressed their feeling that only their views mattered. That is regrettable, and I have NEVER been on another board where the members were bullied so much by rude people on a power trip. But my other board experience has been on hobby and historical boards, not with "fandoms".
I'm rambling and crushing some sour grapes, which make poor wine. But I hope that all who read this and wonder what sets my Fics apart now know. I won't say that my stories are intrinsically better than all others. I have personally encountered some other Fic writers who do excellent work. Mathilde Egyed and DNash come to mind. Another lady who left the Official board some time ago wrote some of the finest erotic fiction that I've ever read, with M&R as her focus. I'd mention her, but am not sure that I should without asking, and I've lost touch with her.
Oh, well: this rant is over, but I hope that I answered your quesstion about why my Fics seem "different" and original.
Explorer
"There is nothing quite so exhilarating as to be shot at without effect." Sir Winston Churchill |
| Anna |
Posted - July 22 2007 : 03:51:12 AM
Oh and I love new bold malone!!
He has always been under other explorer's shadows and I always pitied poor guy.
Go Ned Go!!! |
| Anna |
Posted - July 22 2007 : 03:49:32 AM
Oh it's ok. 
Probably you're right, I don't know much about contemporary English so I thought "slut" and "sluttish" wasn't really used in 20ieis's Britain. (even though Mlaone's american). Actually I thought so because i've never seen the word in any other TLW fics:) , as I said your writing is really special in that way, I really like your style of writing. |
| Explorer |
Posted - July 21 2007 : 5:12:35 PM
I need to explain here that I just "goofed" in replying to Anna's post above. Because I am an administrator here, I can edit her material. I meant only to reply, but hit the wrong button. Probably because I've been editing my most recent scenes in the Fic today. Got in the habit of hitting the "edit" button...
Anna, I apologize. I didn't mean to intrude into your post.
Anyway, you have a good point, and I do strive to write each character's speech to sound as I think they would, if real.
Explorer
"There is nothing quite so exhilarating as to be shot at without effect." Sir Winston Churchill |
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