Nearly DeafscifiwritirSeptember 18 2007, 18:33:22 UTC
I was reading your mini-bio above and stopped a bit on this section. Nearly-deaf? Does that affect your writings in anyway? Does it affect how you create characters? I'm acquainted with certain physical disabilities or challenges and I find it has colored my characters. I always seem to create characters who have a disability...or I'll write an entire story around a character who can't talk. Does that happen with you? If so, how often?
Re: Nearly DeaflzclothoSeptember 18 2007, 19:08:34 UTC
It hurts me most interpersonally, but I have found that it means I am more aware of the visual cues people give off, body language, and things like that
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Re: Nearly DeafscifiwritirSeptember 18 2007, 20:14:27 UTC
Thanks. I'm always interested in how an author's disability affects a work. James Joyce's near-blindness for instance. I think Ulysses was very aural in parts. OR Keats' consumption.
I can understand about not cueing readers by describing the aural background. That's understandable.
Question about writing fanfiction
anonymous
September 18 2007, 21:29:35 UTC
I've been a writer for ten years, and a self publisher for nearly four. I now work with other self published authors. There's often a lot of discussion about writing fanfic, and the issues surrounding it. I've never done it myself, but for those who have or might like to, since one can't sell fanfic or profit from it, would you recommend it as a good way to begin one's writing career? Is it a good training ground for a writer, do you think?
Re: Question about writing fanfiction
anonymous
September 18 2007, 22:57:14 UTC
Yes, I do, for all the reasons Xakara outlined below. She even brought up one aspect that develops that I didn't. Learning to keep characters *consistent*. One of the most popular reasons manuscripts are rejected is that characters are molded to the benefit of the plot. At some point they are doing something not consistent with who and how you have previously shown them to be
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I know the fan fiction question wasn't directed at me, but I can't help throwing in two cents.
I don't write for a public fandom but I believe fanfiction as a whole is beneficial to a writer. Anything that gets you writing regularly and provides regular feedback on your strengths and weaknesses as an writer is going to benefit your career.
With the various communities offering challenges and contests, it's a wonderful way to start learning about deadlines and writing within predetermined guidelines. Both of which come up when you are trying out for an anthology or answering an themed open call at different publishers.
Although I've dealt with canon characters in fanfiction, I also believe that the diligence of writing established characters believably can help a writer develope the skills to keep their own characters and worlds consistant when they pursue original novels.
Okay, my $.02 is stretching toward $.50 so I'll stop. :)
*What surprises some (not all) of my new readers is that I am not a lesbian. I'm married, yes, to a man. I'm bisexual.*
Do you think that it helps or hurts your connection with your readers when they are reminded that you don't meet their expectations?
Do you believe that in the romance genre a writers sexual orientation is more important to a reader than in other genres?
Do you think it's harder being a bisexual writer and being allowed to writer the relationships you wish as they come to you? Bisexuality is still a mystery or non-existent entity for so many that it often isn't even thought of as a possibility. Do you find yourself explaining more often than you thought you would?
re: sexual orientation and reader expectationlzclothoSeptember 18 2007, 23:42:27 UTC
You are correct that bisexuality is still largely a mystery or viewed as a "phase" by many people. To answer your question, I'll point out a "discussion" that went on under my reviews on Amazon.
Here's a link to the Amazon reviews of "Turning Point". The second review (up from the bottom) the reviewer raves about the book, but is "surprised" as she assumed, since my dedication included my husband, that I couldn't possibly be anything but straight. Quite the binary-thinker. However she loved the book, so I have a "convert" to an open mind
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I can understand about not cueing readers by describing the aural background. That's understandable.
Thanks so much. -C
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I don't write for a public fandom but I believe fanfiction as a whole is beneficial to a writer. Anything that gets you writing regularly and provides regular feedback on your strengths and weaknesses as an writer is going to benefit your career.
With the various communities offering challenges and contests, it's a wonderful way to start learning about deadlines and writing within predetermined guidelines. Both of which come up when you are trying out for an anthology or answering an themed open call at different publishers.
Although I've dealt with canon characters in fanfiction, I also believe that the diligence of writing established characters believably can help a writer develope the skills to keep their own characters and worlds consistant when they pursue original novels.
Okay, my $.02 is stretching toward $.50 so I'll stop. :)
~X
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Do you think that it helps or hurts your connection with your readers when they are reminded that you don't meet their expectations?
Do you believe that in the romance genre a writers sexual orientation is more important to a reader than in other genres?
Do you think it's harder being a bisexual writer and being allowed to writer the relationships you wish as they come to you? Bisexuality is still a mystery or non-existent entity for so many that it often isn't even thought of as a possibility. Do you find yourself explaining more often than you thought you would?
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Here's a link to the Amazon reviews of "Turning Point". The second review (up from the bottom) the reviewer raves about the book, but is "surprised" as she assumed, since my dedication included my husband, that I couldn't possibly be anything but straight. Quite the binary-thinker. However she loved the book, so I have a "convert" to an open mind ( ... )
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Why a hollywood novel?
Aside from the fact that they are both actresses, what aspects of hollywood do you explore in the novel? Did you find a theme surprising you?
Illusion? Fame? External worth versus intrinsic worth? gamesmanship and strategic backbiting? Pretense versus reality? Life versus art? -C
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