Or maybe in this case the ghost hangs around, so it's a continuing "relationship" like Dennis's with Cordelia. We have legends of bad sex with ghosts. Can there be good sex?
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Ginger - Sep 08, 2004 10:24:47 am PDT #6456 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
deborah grabien - Sep 08, 2004 10:27:17 am PDT #6457 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Doubt there'd be sex, because honestly, necrophilia? Ewwwww. Sex with dead people, corporeal or otherwise, not good in my stories.
The submission guidelines don't say word one about any particular definition of "relationhip" - it doesn't have to be a romantic one.
He or she (living person) would interact with the ghost, feel sympathy for it, maybe empathy, find the truth out behind the ghost's death.
Wondering if I should bother.
Ginger - Sep 08, 2004 10:29:52 am PDT #6458 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I understand ewww for necrophilia with a dead body. With a spirit, NSM. It could be I was overly influenced by my childhood love of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
deborah grabien - Sep 08, 2004 10:33:06 am PDT #6459 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Yeah, but that wasn't sex. Romantic yearning I get, but I don't write it.
There has to be a strong mystery element, which means a crime, which means said ghost died bloody, probably.
Beverly - Sep 08, 2004 10:36:06 am PDT #6460 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Deb, if you could do a quick story with or somehow related to Broomfield Hill, it would be a fabulous intro to the books for readers who haven't discovered them yet. If they'd let you do that.
And as for otherwise, yes, I'd say you could do it splendidly. I'm thinking of your Darla in Italy and your Ripper in London stuff. Change the names a bit, and there you are. Easy-peasy. Any pay would be okay, but it would be more name recognition and PR for the books.
That's just my take.
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erikaj - Sep 08, 2004 10:37:41 am PDT #6461 of 10001
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I would try, but that's why I've got so many unfinished things.
deborah grabien - Sep 08, 2004 10:38:33 am PDT #6462 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Hmmmmmmm. That's a thought - I should probably run it by Jenn.
In fact, the more I think of it, the more I like it. I wonder if I can pull it off?
Gus - Sep 08, 2004 10:39:40 am PDT #6463 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
"Mysterious relationship" makes me think that the relationship is the object of mystery. Why are those strange bedfellows abed?
A person's curiosity about a ghost's attachment to someone/something seems to qualify.
The detective observes the relationship for us, perhaps, rather than being a member of the relationship. As long as the profile of the ghost's relationship was interesting, it would be worth a go.
deborah grabien - Sep 08, 2004 10:40:33 am PDT #6464 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
The first anthology (which I'd try for) is going to be edited by Harlan Coben
ABout whose work I know diddly.
OK, pondering. Hmmmm.
deborah grabien - Sep 08, 2004 10:42:31 am PDT #6465 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Gus, I'd be extremely unlikely to write a straight detective, unless I had him doing it a la Josephine Tey: bored, investigating a historical unsolved mystery, stumbling across the ghost story.
My mystery-solvers aren't detectives, they're just people who accidentally come across a situation.