Cole Parker
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Wow, what an interesting question.
I like letters that go into the logic behind parts of my stories. I try very hard to make things real, and to have depth in them. Some readers see this and want to explore what I was thinking when I wrote those parts. I love that, because it gives me the chance to expound on why I wrote something the way I did. When you take a lot of time to make something right, I find it very gratifying when readers notice, and want to discuss it.
I also love it when they say a story affected them. I've had several people wanting to use them in schools, which scares the hell out of me because, while I don't have much sex in my writing, there is some there, and it's gay sex, and I don't know that the world of elementary and middle school education is ready for that. But people telling me that what I said is important and should be disseminated can't help but make me feel rather proud of what I''ve written.
I also like it when people write that I brought tears to their eyes. You know you've reached someone if you can do that.
And that of course is what we're all trying to do, isn't it? To reach someone?.
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Thanks, Blue
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Blue: I'm blushing. Thanks.
Des: I was wondering what your comment meant. I completely missed that your were spoofing forgetting your own name. Some nights I'm dimmer than others, and that night, I forgot to turn on the light at all.
As to the question, can written pornography be literary art, of couse it can. Neither pornography nor art can be accurately defined, and the edges of the two are constantly being blurred. If some bluenoses claim that anything arousing cannot be deemed art, they're letting their own prejudices override their emotions and intelligence. Assuming the presence of the latter.
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Des, I was thinking that you, being old like I am, would possibly have a problem remembering if you'd ever been arroused, even slightly, by anything you'd written. Not by anything anyone had written; that wasn't the question you seemed to spend a lot of time answering.
But the first part of the answer seemed pertinent, and in fact shows that you remember more than I ever even knew. So, everything's still normal.
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I readily agree with Colin. I often get emotional over scenes I write. That's easy. I have a difficult time imagining any author that never did get emotional about any scene he wrote.
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The truth is, I simply don't remember!
I guess that IS getting old.
But as people here tend to know, steamy sex scenes aren't exacty my forte.
However, I think your poll needs a couple more choices.
One would be, have you ever been MILDLY aroused. That would make more sense to me than seriously aroused.
And another would be, yes, and there's nothing sick about it. We all have imaginations. That's why we write.
But I can't vote, because I don't remember.
Des might have the same answer.<g>
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I know nothing about this, but I really, really hope someone is tending to Tim. He's at a delicate age, and this could be overwhelming to him. Please, let someone be taking care of him.
And of course, all our hearts, mine along with them, are with Codey.
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You missed several of the greats, James, but your list isn't bad. Not bad at all.
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The Wibster an athlete? I'll have to think about that. It never really crossed my mind before.
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I'm probably not the one to try to answer this query, but I'd say, "wide receiver" might suggest a bottom who's accommodated too much girth too often.
Not that I'd know, mind you. Not that I'd know.
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Des, there are lots of places I could go with a straight line like that, but I think I've said enough already.
You have my permission to proceed, however<g>.
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If that's true, how come you've got your foot in your mouth so often? I'd think it wouldn't fit!
Hah hah hah hah hah.
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Love the shoes.
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I am no longer a genius.
we're crazy
Nice to see these two giants of this site finally identifying themselves. Speaking like Cossell for a change. Telling us like it is.
Hah hah hah hah!
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There may be something else to consider. We're amateurs, and we're trying stuff out. I see nothing wrong with experimenting, with trying to write in something other than first or third person, or in past tense. It presents problems that are fun to solve, and we can do so at our own risk, and learn while we're doing so. If we feel we have something to contribute when we're done, we can post the results. We can do so knowing not everyone will like what we've done, but perhaps some will, and we'll show what we're doing and perhaps something we're kind of proud of, without expecting that's it a perfect piece of writing.
I'm always very cautious about being negative about someone else's writing. Maybe I err in doing that, because people do need critical judgments to improve. But it's so easy to stifle a voice, too, and I'd hate to be party to that.
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What absolutely blew my mind was the comment near the end of the ariticle that said, when Ms. Rowling made her announcement, the kids in the audience cheered! Cheered! If that is indeeed what happened, all I can say is, WOW!
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Excellent point. I leave some things alone, too, and if you're being paid, you'd feeel you had to address them.
Too, if you'd taken on the job, what if the client absolutely refused some of your corrections of his more egregious errors, some that you felt he just had to make if the story were going to be anything meaningful at all? He refuses, keeps the story the way it is, the error or problem intact, and expects you to keep doing your best for him. When I edit for someone now, and he insists on not correcting something that simply has to be corrected, I can politely back away. If I'd taken his money, that would be difficult.
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I do it for fun, but admit to being very selective, and only chosing authors whose work I enjoy. It would be awful editing something you didn't like, I think. Maybe, if you were a professional, you couldn't be so choosey.
But if you're being paid, wouldn't you have to find everything that's wrong, and be right in all your analysis? That's kind of daunting. I left my omniscience at the door when I came in.
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Thanks for making my head explode.
That's okay, Wibbby. If it did explode you could go back in time and unexplode it. Just don't get caught in a loop.
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I totally agree with you, Camy. War is more than obscene, and innocent kids die for promises and ideals that are simply words. When young kids die, it's because old men fail. And the young kids have entire lives ahead of them, the old men more past glories than anything else. The old men are failing, and will be forgotten. The young kids are dying. They, not the old men, are our future.
Few things are so awful, and so, so, so unnecessary.
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And here I always thought gay authors were a special breed of cat!
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Skunk, raccoon, it's all the same.<g>
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Had anyone else noticed this thread has meandered from prison security issues to surgery to sticky fur to esoteric Indian subcontinent faiths to tongues too short to really do the job to eating frosting without the cake and sucking syrup to a how-to primer on sandwich construction to what constitutes the best Jewish rye bread (the corn meal on the bottom, no doubt) to the proper temperature of butter when interlayered over and between other ingredients in the sandwich from fat city to stucco additives?
I'm entranced. And waiting for some suggestions on how to start a '36 flathead Plymouth that's sat out in the rain for 60 years and the three deadliest snakes in Laos. I'm sure we'll get to that at some point.
Carry on, men.
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What can I say but, "Thank you?"
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No one's asked to sleep with me, either. Well, there was this one guy. . . . But no, no one's actually come out and made that request. I console myself with the fact that I don't post a picture. If I did that and my dashing, manly charms were on display, of course everyone would be lining up, but think of the hassle that would present, having to choose.
No, what I actually console myself with is, I wouldn't want to sleep with them, either. So there.
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