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    Re: Seeking council of fellow writers...

    Quote Originally Posted by apenman View Post
    Fellow writers, I?d like some suggestions/advice.

    I have two stories that I?m currently working on, although the term ?work? may be an overstatement.

    You see, lately I can?t seem to garner the necessary enthusiasm to sit down and apply myself to the craft. I?m not sure what?s going on in my mind?perhaps it?s the change of season?the inevitable coming of winter. But lately, all I can manage is to sit down at the laptop, write maybe one or two sentences, and then close it down and go do something else?

    Does anyone have any thoughts on this? How do I (how do you) re-kindle the enthusiasm? Is it just a matter of waiting out this slow period? Is it just a simple matter of occupying my brain with something else until the writing bug strikes once again?

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    Exercise. As some others have mentioned. It works for me, the physical benefits (feeling better), which in turn seems to improve my mental state of mind, and then the social interaction. Just being out in public and watching other people interact can often times inspire ideas. If that fails I pick up a book/ipad and read someone else's work. My latest writing dry-spell was cured when i started slogging my way through George RR Martin's Game of Thrones books (not the show)(almost through the last book now).

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    Re: Seeking council of fellow writers...

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    I'd argue on the merit of the different eras in ****. My personal preference is the Golden Age, 1968 to 1974, after the sexual revolution started, and before the witch hunt begun to remove mainstream adult entertainment only to be taken over by the mob. Here in Europe, fortunately, no such thing occurred, and as a result, movies like giallos could successfully combine the noir style (especially the Nordic noir) with softcore erotica.

    In my own stories I like psychological realism, where most could happen the next room over, with only the characters being fictional. Naturally that only works the best if enough and deep enough character study is being done to let readers identify with characters. Yes, I'm implying that a story is being best served by the women featured being more than a "window dressing" for a polishing session.
    With me as a woman, and a vast amount of women would agree. When they hear stories about large breasted women, or, porn movies with large breasted women engaged in lesbian sex. We understand the wish to see large breasted women. But, when some man is talking about large breasted women, we ask to ourselves, how big are the mans breasts. We are thinking, he is a 300 pound plus man with fat man boobs. Just saying, we do not see titfighting stories with Kristen Stewart and Emma Watson.

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    Re: Seeking council of fellow writers...

    Quote Originally Posted by Callousgirl View Post
    With me as a woman, and a vast amount of women would agree. When they hear stories about large breasted women, or, porn movies with large breasted women engaged in lesbian sex. We understand the wish to see large breasted women. But, when some man is talking about large breasted women, we ask to ourselves, how big are the mans breasts. We are thinking, he is a 300 pound plus man with fat man boobs. Just saying, we do not see titfighting stories with Kristen Stewart and Emma Watson.
    A few years ago, well actually this was around 2006, so more than a decade ago, there was a Japanese TV series, I think the title was Mountain Woman, Washboard Woman. It was a comedy series about two department store clerks, one with big boobs, the other only an A cup. I definitely think it couldn't fly in the US, or Western Europe, but other regions on Earth.

    Without a sexual revolution, internalized misogyny easily gives way to a culture where women can be objectified for male benefit. I exclude lesbians and bisexuals on the single merit that these same cultures also exist in Hide Your Gays mode. Men with moobs are portrayed as born losers.

    Romance initially may have started out as an outlet for women to escape from their arranged marriages, but nowadays, especially after listening to a lot of women, it has transformed into an outlet of non-physical objectification where women are portrayed as conduits for men to achieve gratification and rewards sexually without resorting to violence. In short, they're called chick flicks and while some tweens do watch it, it's secretly more aimed at men, to avoid an assumed mass panic.

    I like to establish a situation where a woman suppresses the more animalistic impulses publicly, either to protect an image or just public perception, until it boils over something that is tangible and relatable. Maybe it's to ensure myself I don't objectify women, just the situation.
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    Re: Seeking council of fellow writers...

    Quote Originally Posted by catfightlover40 View Post
    A few years ago, well actually this was around 2006, so more than a decade ago, there was a Japanese TV series, I think the title was Mountain Woman, Washboard Woman. It was a comedy series about two department store clerks, one with big *****, the other only an A cup. I definitely think it couldn't fly in the US, or Western Europe, but other regions on Earth.

    Without a sexual revolution, internalized misogyny easily gives way to a culture where women can be objectified for male benefit. I exclude lesbians and bisexuals on the single merit that these same cultures also exist in Hide Your Gays mode. Men with moobs are portrayed as born losers.

    Romance initially may have started out as an outlet for women to escape from their arranged marriages, but nowadays, especially after listening to a lot of women, it has transformed into an outlet of non-physical objectification where women are portrayed as conduits for men to achieve gratification and rewards sexually without resorting to violence. In short, they're called chick flicks and while some tweens do watch it, it's secretly more aimed at men, to avoid an assumed mass panic.

    I like to establish a situation where a woman suppresses the more animalistic impulses publicly, either to protect an image or just public perception, until it boils over something that is tangible and relatable. Maybe it's to ensure myself I don't objectify women, just the situation.
    A few years ago, and I watched the few few seasons with deep passion. The last season I did not watch because for two years I had a different cable network until I went to DIRECTV and got BBC America back. But, the series was called "Orphan Black" and it explored different viewpoints of being a woman with a collection of clones. They were born in 1984, and their lives became different than the others until they discovered each other. Strange, they had a violent outcome with other clones and clone killed clone and they were willing to kill each other if they were pushed to do so. All played by the same woman, but their education was different. One was a PhD candidate and the other was a high school drop out. They did skip over the problem with different education, as the clones really did not have to much a difference because of different levels of education. But, one of the clones was a lesbian and the rest liked men. It did invalid the argument that your born to be in her case a woman to like women or men. True, there was only one lesbian clone, not two, so the fans would not be asking if there would be clone incest.

    True, when she did play as a lesbian, she kissed another woman, and she was in bed with another woman. Still, the was really just play acting as a lesbian. And still, this is the BBC America being produced in Canada and airing in America. Just me, with the gay and lesbian community. I do not see Hollywood really knows what to do with gay and lesbian characters. True, I was not interested in watching the clones having sex with each other. Still, I like to see them being positive role models without having sex with each other.

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    Re: Seeking council of fellow writers...

    Quote Originally Posted by Callousgirl View Post
    A few years ago, and I watched the few few seasons with deep passion. The last season I did not watch because for two years I had a different cable network until I went to DIRECTV and got BBC America back. But, the series was called "Orphan Black" and it explored different viewpoints of being a woman with a collection of clones. They were born in 1984, and their lives became different than the others until they discovered each other. Strange, they had a violent outcome with other clones and clone killed clone and they were willing to kill each other if they were pushed to do so. All played by the same woman, but their education was different. One was a PhD candidate and the other was a high school drop out. They did skip over the problem with different education, as the clones really did not have to much a difference because of different levels of education. But, one of the clones was a lesbian and the rest liked men. It did invalid the argument that your born to be in her case a woman to like women or men. True, there was only one lesbian clone, not two, so the fans would not be asking if there would be clone incest.

    True, when she did play as a lesbian, she kissed another woman, and she was in bed with another woman. Still, the was really just play acting as a lesbian. And still, this is the BBC America being produced in Canada and airing in America. Just me, with the gay and lesbian community. I do not see Hollywood really knows what to do with gay and lesbian characters. True, I was not interested in watching the clones having sex with each other. Still, I like to see them being positive role models without having sex with each other.
    America's leading thought comes from Tocqueville on individualism, not Voltaire or Rousseau, therefore it's not the individual's role in a community that gets the most highlight, but the individual's own perception itself, and as a consequence, probably the secondmost heard thing after "state's rights" is "let the free market decide". They (the studio system) worked on the assumption, that the LGBTQ has Bravo, a little bit of Spike and a dash of VH1 to satisfy their needs. Naturally this meant that writers also come from the heteroconform cis world of suburbia, without first hand experience with minorities in being one. As a result they mold characters into shapes they became comfortable with.

    That is not to say the LGBTQ community itself would be blameless. One famous, or infamous example, depending who you ask is the novel/play called The Normal Heart, which had its original version back in the Reagan era, and the Mark Ruffalo led movie adaptation from 2014 was the first one that publicly rectified, it wasn't just gays, but also lesbians, who contributed to battling HIV in the '80s. The gays in the L Word and the lesbians in Queer Eye for the straight guy were stereotypes based on assumptions, and that is why intersectionality is massively important.

    The actress who played in Orphan Black is Tatiana Maslani, I usually watch anything that comes out with her being in it. Sexuality and attraction is an equation of multiple unknowns, simply because our environment also shapes us. I don't believe there's a blueprint for humans. I also like to get beyond one identifying factor, since I believe that the best way to humanize a character is to highlight our commonalities. I mean their sexual orientation obviously comes into play with regards to eroticism, but until that point, to me they are Tim, a Rams fan, or Sarah, an office temp, both of whom drink coffee with two sugars, one cream.
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    Re: Seeking council of fellow writers...

    Quote Originally Posted by catfightlover40 View Post
    America's leading thought comes from Tocqueville on individualism, not Voltaire or Rousseau, therefore it's not the individual's role in a community that gets the most highlight, but the individual's own perception itself, and as a consequence, probably the secondmost heard thing after "state's rights" is "let the free market decide".
    I do not really support the ideology of Tocqueville with individualism. In fact, America is more European than most American really understand. Take for example the American flag, and the argument being 13 states and 13 stripes. But, the American flag called the Betsy Ross Flag is really a cheap cut and paste of the flag of the British East India flag. The flag of Washington DC, is really the European family flag of the Washington family. And that flag has a five pointed star, and so does the American flag with 50 stars. Plus, the current flags of the state of Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, and the two national flags of the Confederate States of America borrowed and incorporated the many flags flown under the House of Habsburg. If you ever study Emperor Charles V, you will understand in 1526 that he made it legal for Africans coming to the New World to be slaves for life and their children would also be slaves for life. And the major common flag of the House of Habsburg is more like the current state flag of the state of Alabama. The major factor of Alabama, that all governors since and after the American Civil War, have all been sworn into office with the bible used to swear in Jefferson Davis to be president of the Confederate State of America. Then we have Hawaii, with a state flag that incorporated the flag of the United Kingdom.

    That is not to say the LGBTQ community itself would be blameless. One famous, or infamous example, depending who you ask is the novel/play called The Normal Heart, which had its original version back in the Reagan era, and the Mark Ruffalo led movie adaptation from 2014 was the first one that publicly rectified, it wasn't just gays, but also lesbians, who contributed to battling HIV in the '80s. The gays in the L Word and the lesbians in ***** Eye for the straight guy were stereotypes based on assumptions, and that is why intersectionality is massively important.

    The actress who played in Orphan Black is Tatiana Maslani, I usually watch anything that comes out with her being in it. Sexuality and attraction is an equation of multiple unknowns, simply because our environment also shapes us. I don't believe there's a blueprint for humans. I also like to get beyond one identifying factor, since I believe that the best way to humanize a character is to highlight our commonalities. I mean their sexual orientation obviously comes into play with regards to eroticism, but until that point, to me they are Tim, a Rams fan, or Sarah, an office temp, both of whom drink coffee with two sugars, one cream.
    Sex is really about stereotypes and assumptions when written in books, shown in movies, or other forums of media. Not all lesbian couples have titfighting, because the women have different band size and different cup size. True, some couples have the same bra size, but still they never have a titfight. Now lesbians will press their breasts together, and women have a powerful and strong feelings when breasts are feeling breasts. So lesbians do long embraces and they enjoy that feeling. Now that would be really boring to read and really boring to see in a movie. I do not know of any good lesbian movies, or any good lesbian tv series. It feels like it is written and produced for white people to see white lesbians having sex. Your never going to see a Asian lesbian with a African American lesbian.

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    Re: Seeking council of fellow writers...

    Quote Originally Posted by Callousgirl View Post
    I do not really support the ideology of Tocqueville with individualism. In fact, America is more European than most American really understand. Take for example the American flag, and the argument being 13 states and 13 stripes. But, the American flag called the Betsy Ross Flag is really a cheap cut and paste of the flag of the British East India flag. The flag of Washington DC, is really the European family flag of the Washington family. And that flag has a five pointed star, and so does the American flag with 50 stars. Plus, the current flags of the state of Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, and the two national flags of the Confederate States of America borrowed and incorporated the many flags flown under the House of Habsburg. If you ever study Emperor Charles V, you will understand in 1526 that he made it legal for Africans coming to the New World to be slaves for life and their children would also be slaves for life. And the major common flag of the House of Habsburg is more like the current state flag of the state of Alabama. The major factor of Alabama, that all governors since and after the American Civil War, have all been sworn into office with the bible used to swear in Jefferson Davis to be president of the Confederate State of America. Then we have Hawaii, with a state flag that incorporated the flag of the United Kingdom.



    Sex is really about stereotypes and assumptions when written in books, shown in movies, or other forums of media. Not all lesbian couples have titfighting, because the women have different band size and different cup size. True, some couples have the same bra size, but still they never have a titfight. Now lesbians will press their breasts together, and women have a powerful and strong feelings when breasts are feeling breasts. So lesbians do long embraces and they enjoy that feeling. Now that would be really boring to read and really boring to see in a movie. I do not know of any good lesbian movies, or any good lesbian tv series. It feels like it is written and produced for white people to see white lesbians having sex. Your never going to see a Asian lesbian with a African American lesbian.
    I have to say, this conversation is as much eye opening as it is refreshing Oh, I'm very familiar with Charles V, because his extended Bourbon and Habsburg houses have shaped the history of Europe and her colonies, and Europe itself. I grew up on the closed off end of the Iron Curtain, but the divide between East and West did not start with Charles V. In fact, a major factor to that rift goes back to the 14th century. The Hundred Years War just ended when the Ottoman occupation started its first signs in Europe. If you ever care to take a look at the map of the Black Death, you'll notice that Central and Eastern Europe got off relatively unscathed from the affair, simply because the trade routes largely have already avoided them. In other words, incoming barbaric hordes from the east or south mattered not much.

    Suleiman's endgame to his death was to conquer enough land from the Holy Roman Empire to force Charles's brother, the Austrian/Bohemian/Hungarian king to either pay a constant ransom customary in the oriental faith, or what's more likely, to have him accept his domain, and via his cultured wife, to elevate his reign to a status rivaling that of Charles. This is why nations on the Mediterranean teach their history differently from Central and Eastern Europe, in that the former talks more about the naval battles and the failed attempt to capture the pope for ransom.

    Meanwhile Charles simply viewed the colonies as an extension and replacement for territories they lost to the Turks. That's when Europe irreparably broke off into two, not in the 20th century.

    Asian cinema produces so called Category III movies, which translate into X rated, though some still get cinematic outings, for example in Korea. I've seen a blaxploitation karate movie from HK from 1974, but haven't seen Black Emmanuelle (by Lucio Fulci) or regular Emmanuelle in Asia, a movie with lesbians for a non-Caucasian market may easily exist. Cultural hemisphere is a real thing, in that what in my view is most rare is a movie where neither cultures are a window dressing to another. Seriously, I have seen 2 Chinese movies, one shot in Milan, the other in Paris and both after the 20 minute mark turned into a movie about Chinese characters, simply because the audience can hardly identify themselves with people they're rarely exposed to.
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    Re: Seeking council of fellow writers...

    Quote Originally Posted by catfightlover40 View Post
    I have to say, this conversation is as much eye opening as it is refreshing Oh, I'm very familiar with Charles V, because his extended Bourbon and Habsburg houses have shaped the history of Europe and her colonies, and Europe itself. I grew up on the closed off end of the Iron Curtain, but the divide between East and West did not start with Charles V. In fact, a major factor to that rift goes back to the 14th century. The Hundred Years War just ended when the Ottoman occupation started its first signs in Europe. If you ever care to take a look at the map of the Black Death, you'll notice that Central and Eastern Europe got off relatively unscathed from the affair, simply because the trade routes largely have already avoided them. In other words, incoming barbaric hordes from the east or south mattered not much.

    Suleiman's endgame to his death was to conquer enough land from the Holy Roman Empire to force Charles's brother, the Austrian/Bohemian/Hungarian king to either pay a constant ransom customary in the oriental faith, or what's more likely, to have him accept his domain, and via his cultured wife, to elevate his reign to a status rivaling that of Charles. This is why nations on the Mediterranean teach their history differently from Central and Eastern Europe, in that the former talks more about the naval battles and the failed attempt to capture the pope for ransom.

    Meanwhile Charles simply viewed the colonies as an extension and replacement for territories they lost to the Turks. That's when Europe irreparably broke off into two, not in the 20th century.

    Asian cinema produces so called Category III movies, which translate into X rated, though some still get cinematic outings, for example in Korea. I've seen a blaxploitation karate movie from HK from 1974, but haven't seen Black Emmanuelle (by Lucio Fulci) or regular Emmanuelle in Asia, a movie with lesbians for a non-Caucasian market may easily exist. Cultural hemisphere is a real thing, in that what in my view is most rare is a movie where neither cultures are a window dressing to another. Seriously, I have seen 2 Chinese movies, one shot in Milan, the other in Paris and both after the 20 minute mark turned into a movie about Chinese characters, simply because the audience can hardly identify themselves with people they're rarely exposed to.
    As a American, I do know about Europe very well. Because I am a American Army Brat during the Cold War with a father being a officer in the American Army. Yes, I do know about Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin. Yes, how many stories of my father coming home and talking about the Stasi he was watching that day.

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