I didn't even *know* about slash until a couple of years ago, plus I was more than a wee bit sheltered anyhow, and I kinda thought there was something going on.
Tell me more good stuff about me.
Kaylee ,'The Message'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Anne W. - Nov 23, 2002 8:16:36 pm PST #972 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Elena - Nov 23, 2002 11:02:29 pm PST #973 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
See, but romance novels don't have to make sense or be any good. Surely we can pound out a hundred pages of drivel and fifty pages of sex.
P.M. Marc - Nov 23, 2002 11:11:07 pm PST #974 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
See, but romance novels don't have to make sense or be any good. Surely we can pound out a hundred pages of drivel and fifty pages of sex.
HA!
Let's see...
Imposters was about 22 pages, with about 2-3 pages of sex.
So, 100 pages of drivel, about 13 pages of sex.
Elena - Nov 23, 2002 11:17:42 pm PST #975 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
Yeah, but all of the throbbing manhoods take up more space.
Oh, fuck, just remembered something that happened tonight. I'm here, so I'll put it here.
We had our staff Christmas party tonight and our Tech got a ten years of service gift. The waitress comes by because she wants to see what the gift is, the following conversation occurs.
Waitress - That sure is a pretty box; it must be a pretty gift.
Tech - I wish my husband came in a pretty box.
Waitress - Oh, honey, I'm sure he does.
And it took the Tech a couple of minutes to understand why the entire table was on the floor laughing.
Susan W. - Nov 23, 2002 11:18:22 pm PST #976 of 10000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
t consider my obligatory chip-on-shoulder remarks about writing a romance made and move along
Elena - Nov 23, 2002 11:23:21 pm PST #977 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
Oh, Susan, I don't mean good romance novels, of which there are many. I mean the formulaic, often laughable, ones like Harlequin Blaze... I am a fan of romance novels, and I look forward to seeing yours. In fact, I think that if the Bitches wrote the series romance novels they would become something so much better, and readers would start to expect high quality in their smut.
Susan W. - Nov 23, 2002 11:25:39 pm PST #978 of 10000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Thanks, Elena--I really think I need a shoulder-chipectomy on this issue. I probably wouldn't have the same reaction to similar remarks about other genres I hope to write in--romance seems more subject to generalized dissing, so I get a little oversensitive and overprotective.
Elena - Nov 23, 2002 11:29:58 pm PST #979 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
There's plenty of crap Science Fiction and Fantasy... And, for the love of heaven, will somebody please realise that a spellchecker does not substitute for a copy editor? I am amazed at how poorly done a lot of published stuff is.
askye - Nov 23, 2002 11:31:48 pm PST #980 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
Elean and I were just talking last night about how much Buffista written romance novels would rock.
Michele T. - Nov 23, 2002 11:33:02 pm PST #981 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Ninety percent of everything is crap. (Theodore Sturgeon, when asked why he wrote in sci-fi, where 90% of the published work was crap.)
And, OK, fine, small animals in Iowa saw the slash in Point Break. I was blind to anything but the blazing prettiness of Keanu.