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Mar 18, 2006 04:55

Title: Doubts
Link: http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/03/doubts.html
Date: Thursday, March 16 2006 ( Read more... )

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Comments 34

tooimpurenangel March 17 2006, 18:40:47 UTC

she just freaks me out more with every blog entry.

demoncougar March 17 2006, 22:05:40 UTC

Me too. Honestly, she types like she's got MPD.

freyalorelei March 19 2006, 05:25:30 UTC

Nah, I think it's just good old-fashioned Narcissistic Personality Disorder. No, seriously. I think Laurell's got NPD.

If it's true, I feel SO bad for her kid. Children of NPDers have hellish lives.

(Of course, maybe she isn't. Maybe she's a great mom who loves her kid and devotes her life to raising a decent, productive member of society. Who the hell knows? I'm not casting aspirations on LKH specifically; just NPDers.)

cho_malfoy March 17 2006, 19:01:42 UTC

This post really disturbed me, but not as much as the 'sex is more life-affirming than violence' one. It's boggling that she's a bestselling author.

dwg March 17 2006, 19:07:33 UTC

This is the kinda stuff that you would have been taught Not To Do in high school, and even if you did it, then people would mercilessly torment you for how bad it was.

I have to wonder how it is a grown woman can get away with doing all this. Bestseller or not.

Though, it's my opinion that Bestsellers ought to be held to a higher standard than everyone else - simply because they're so successful and therefore set the bar for people to aim toward. Then again, if Micah can make it as a big hit, then there's hope for the little people yet.

magdollna March 17 2006, 19:27:37 UTC

At some point will some one hug her and say," ummm sweety, there not real they are in your head and they can not tell you to anything. They are aspects of your creative writing. Now take the nice pills and get back to reality, and a plot. "

I used to love the books till they no longer became thrilling. Once I figured out that no one could die what was the point.

mags

randomsome1 March 17 2006, 20:13:37 UTC

Y'know, the one character I'm writing wants to nail the other one, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna let my work turn to unrepentant and terribly-written smut. Because you know what? I know how to write smut better than her They're characters. I control them. And I understand that if I want porn for the sake of porn, I write a PWP, keep it seperate from the main body of the work, and set it loose on the wilds of the internets by itself.

dwg March 17 2006, 21:05:57 UTC

I write a PWP, keep it seperate from the main body of the work, and set it loose on the wilds of the internets by itself.

*dies laughing* I can see it now, people tagging PWP and releasing it into the realms of cyberspace. "Run free, PWP. FREE!!!"

randomsome1 March 17 2006, 21:07:16 UTC

It makes it about three steps, and a sex-starved fangirl swoops down like a hawk and mauls it. XD

frabjously March 18 2006, 07:30:28 UTC

Guilty as charged. ;)

kidkai March 17 2006, 20:48:18 UTC

I think this blog entry has just decided me. I'm done with both series'. What's the point if LKH is saying that it's all going to stay status quo because she likes the characters? These books are not driven by plot, they are driven by the author's whims and her almost schizophrenic conversations with her main characters.

She also basically said that there is no direction to her writing. Sure that has been pretty clear for some time now but the reluctance with which she admits that Cel will have to die is astounding. I never doubted that Cel would die. He's supposed to die. She has been leading up to his death since the beginning of the series. It never crossed my mind that she didn't have that planned. Yet now she says that he can die because she "doesn't care" about him? WTF? I had always hoped I was wrong or that maybe she had writers block or something but that she'd eventually get back to the promise she showed in the beginning, that the series would start moving forward, not just collecting more consorts. That we'd get back to ( ... )