Comments | fabulousfrock: This is not a reflection of my relationship with my own mom.

fabulousfrock

This is not a reflection of my relationship with my own mom.

May 10, 2009 17:21

I was going to do a post about mothers in my writing, but m-stiefvater beat me to the idea ( Read more... )

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olmue May 10 2009, 21:49:52 UTC

LOL! And uh (coughs nervously), you have Anubis, too?

fabulousfrock May 10 2009, 21:57:10 UTC

I'm sure there's room for more than one Anubis! Also I dunno if Anubis will ever appear in a book, except as a bit part... (Hey, I can use my Anubis icon though!)

olmue May 10 2009, 21:59:27 UTC

Well, true. After all, the same stray comment from second son led to both me and my husband writing books starring Anubis, and they are very, very different, even from two people in the same house.

Cool icon!

fabulousfrock May 10 2009, 22:05:14 UTC

My Anubis is Arestin's Grim Reaper. So he was given a Death-y name. But I'm not sure he lives up to it. He is mainly adorable and innocuous. I don't know what your Anubis is like, but somehow I don't think you have to worry about overlap...

sarahcross May 10 2009, 23:35:18 UTC

Det's mom: Dead (And not just dead, but KILLED. Bonus points.)

Soooo many bonus points!! :D

fabulousfrock May 15 2009, 22:28:47 UTC

Det gets bonus point for EVERYTHING HE DOES, anyway.

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fabulousfrock May 15 2009, 22:29:22 UTC

I'm glad you followed suit! It was fun. You have more rad moms in your stories, though... I feel bad for my moms. I've been trying to give them a little more of a break lately.

patesden May 11 2009, 01:19:23 UTC

LOL--I had one critique partner point out my tendency to have mean mothers with deep rooted problems. My real mother doesn't have a mean bone in her body.

Glad your wrist and elbow feel better.

fabulousfrock May 15 2009, 22:36:20 UTC

Of course...when I did write a slightly nice mom, I got a lot of "no teenagers like their mother that much, rawr!!" And I was like...really? I mean...LOTS of my friends as a teenager liked their mothers...

novimnet May 11 2009, 02:18:00 UTC

My mom used to complain that Disney movies were sexist because the mother was almost always dead or killed off early on in the story. But I guess if the mother is in the picture the protagonist has less of an obvious problem to overcome so there will be less of a dramatic story?

fabulousfrock May 15 2009, 22:30:19 UTC

Yeah...it makes a lot of sense, but I still think out of dozens of characters I could surely write a few decent moms. They don't HAVE to ruin the story, do they? There are plenty of dads around.