tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post4770503084717269923..comments2024-03-25T05:17:05.202-05:00Comments on Writing In The Crosshairs: SEX HELPSRoland D. Yeomanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-32578659881093861442011-11-09T20:03:23.608-06:002011-11-09T20:03:23.608-06:00The Desert Rocks :
I had no idea that the movie wa...The Desert Rocks :<br />I had no idea that the movie was based on a book by Richard Matheson! I'll have to read it now.<br /><br />Isn't the movie theme lovely? All of us have the basic need to be loved for who we are. I am a romantic at heart. Be here this Friday when I alone keep romance's torch held high with my own ghost story, RolandRoland D. Yeomanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-60584588214246084512011-11-09T14:32:48.108-06:002011-11-09T14:32:48.108-06:00Great post on love and I love the theme from Somew...Great post on love and I love the theme from Somewhere in Time. I'll never forget reading Richard Matheson's excellent book called Bid time Return and being shocked at the way they changed some of the details for the movie. I read the book at least twice to make sure it was as deep as I thought it was....Back when I had no one to love and no one to caress my cheek. Intangible Heartshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05047040538015079182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-8357458349854301662011-11-06T12:54:58.525-06:002011-11-06T12:54:58.525-06:00Elliot :
How true. It's the sizzle that sells ...Elliot :<br />How true. It's the sizzle that sells the steak. The tease that heightens the enjoyment of the strip. That's why scantily clad lovelies always seem more enticing and sexy to me than simply clothing-challenged naked! LOL.<br /><br />Thanks for the kind words! I was feeling lonely there for awhile, RolandRoland D. Yeomanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-47793512823057533912011-11-06T12:52:28.320-06:002011-11-06T12:52:28.320-06:00Carol :
Thanks for liking my post so. Yes, I do be...Carol :<br />Thanks for liking my post so. Yes, I do believe we as authors and as readers are drawn to books that have elements lacking at the moment in our lives. Even in long time relationships, or maybe especially in them, intimacy is something strangled by familiarity or by stress of living. Wasn't that vid moving?<br /><br />Lorelei :<br />I'm so happy to be able to introduce you to Masefield's stirring poem for the first time.<br /><br />I am so glad your relationship with your husband is continuing to grow and deepen. So few do these days.<br /><br />NaNo saddens me. We should focus our efforts to write real novels not grind them out for word counts. And at this time of year when kids are out of school :<br /><br />"No, Johnny, mother doesn't have time for you. She has to churn out her nonsense novel."<br /><br />It is a group-hug way of following the semblence of your dream without running the risk of rejection by agent or editor. Sigh.<br /><br />Francine :<br />Good questions. Stephen King says we are drawn to the horror novel as a way of sublimating our all too real fear of terrorism, cancer, economic and natural upheavals -- over which we have little control. In horror books, we have the semblance of control of associating ourselves with the survivors, saying to our anxieties, that we would survive those all too real things we fear.<br /><br />I am glad you found your prince and are happy. But for many who have found their prince or princess, the flush and blush of first love is long gone ... and mourned. Romance novels are a way of getting a ghost of it back.<br /><br />Hey, but if I'm so smart, how come I'm so poor? LOL. Thanks for visiting and staying to talk awhile! RolandRoland D. Yeomanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-12214819888019202852011-11-06T12:50:17.186-06:002011-11-06T12:50:17.186-06:00...kudos on the poem, my friend.
Bottom line, sex......kudos on the poem, my friend.<br /><br />Bottom line, sex sells, regardless of the industry one hopes to succeed in. <br /><br />As writers/readers, I've managed the best results in penning the anticipation of love...gearing up for the act, as opposed to simply tossing one's character's into the sac for a quick sell. <br /><br />It's all in the touch, soft lips, a fleeting glance, and details galore ;)<br /><br />Well done as always, Roland.<br /><br />ElElliot Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06319271528871804399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-55519542575745971782011-11-06T11:55:20.621-06:002011-11-06T11:55:20.621-06:00Hi,
Potent words, potent thought-provoking post, ...Hi,<br /><br />Potent words, potent thought-provoking post, R.<br /><br />I dare say there are writers and readers alike whom seek from novels an element of what may be missing from their lives. Hence novels are escapism from reality. But, if all that is sought is the "something that's missing" then there are vital questions begging to be asked: why do people read books that are scary or read books containing gross horror? <br /><br />I have no desire to experience an axeman murderer real-time, any more than I wish to encounter a beast with teeth and the power to crunch my bones and it's being out of a cage. Sci-fi is OK, it's make-believe. ;)<br /><br />As for romance! I found my prince. Enough said. :o<br /><br />best<br />FFrancine Howarthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02326542867876257042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-19373958526539609992011-11-06T11:44:59.219-06:002011-11-06T11:44:59.219-06:00The search for "the one" placed in novel...The search for "the one" placed in novels is a difficult one to master. I like the ideas posted here--and happily not doing NaNo so that I can work on much more important things--I want my characters to "be in love" or think at least that they are. <br /><br />Having been married for 24 years to a man who I still am in love with and he me (and the mysteries of deep love still mystifies even me), I thought this was an excellent post, Roland. And the poem was a first for me. <br /><br />~LoreleiLorelei Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03294047277447613989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-19180395750773268432011-11-06T11:13:45.798-06:002011-11-06T11:13:45.798-06:00This is a really great post! Great quotes, great p...This is a really great post! Great quotes, great points, and great examples. Poignant vid with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, with lovely music. It's inspiring to think of love as something that (as you say) "gives birth to legend and magic." :) <br /><br />And EXCELLENT and intriguing point that a reader is drawn to a novel by what is lacking in his/her life. (Authors tend to write things into their novels for the very same reasons, I think.) It seems the lack of LOVE is a basic lack that can be a key concept to tap into, in a novel.Carol Riggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14092209912983783974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-64601066654893691272011-11-06T10:46:26.976-06:002011-11-06T10:46:26.976-06:00mshatch :
The last stanza is my favorite part of t...mshatch :<br />The last stanza is my favorite part of the poem as well, Roland<br /><br />Melissa :<br />I think you are right about why we writers write the stories we do. Thanks for visiting and staying to chat during the busy NaMoWriMo month -- whose waste of creative time saddens me, RolandRoland D. Yeomanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-83508557328893321012011-11-06T10:29:21.758-06:002011-11-06T10:29:21.758-06:00This is one of my favorite poems and I think it su...This is one of my favorite poems and I think it sums up appropriately our eternal search for the Magic One. You could also say that writers write the kinds of stories they do the same way readers are drawn to read the books they do.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04443736284850057306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-16593335486533743162011-11-06T09:19:13.263-06:002011-11-06T09:19:13.263-06:00nice. love the John Masefield poem. I'd read i...nice. love the John Masefield poem. I'd read it before in school but the last line particularly caught me:<br /><br />"And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over."mshatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06308916014310536449noreply@blogger.com