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lovecraft68 said:
More like this with my two daughters on movie nights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPlvYCDwuQg
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HAHAHA

Are you also a fan of Cinema Sins?

With the last book I wrote, I created a sin count and provided it to my beta readers along with the manuscript.

"Yes, I know I fucked up. But I don't know how to fix it, so just sin it."

I know it's out of fashion to take the piss out of Fifty Shades, but Cinema Sins and I are on the same page there...
 
JasonClearwater said:
HAHAHA

Are you also a fan of Cinema Sins?

With the last book I wrote, I created a sin count and provided it to my beta readers along with the manuscript.

"Yes, I know I fucked up. But I don't know how to fix it, so just sin it."

I know it's out of fashion to take the piss out of Fifty Shades, but Cinema Sins and I are on the same page there...
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Oh...Cinema Sins and honest trailers are fucking addictive! I have a routine where I watch one of each before I start writing.

I keep walking around going "That's racist" and when someone says something sucks I say "He'd be great at cinema sins."

I have such a hate on for 50 shades I won't even watch the honest trailers or Cinema sins of those two piles of garbage.
 
lovecraft68 said:
Oh...Cinema Sins and honest trailers are fucking addictive! I have a routine where I watch one of each before I start writing.

I keep walking around going "That's racist" and when someone says something sucks I say "He'd be great at cinema sins."

I have such a hate on for 50 shades I won't even watch the honest trailers or Cinema sins of those two piles of garbage.
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And, "Scene does not contain a lap dance."

I think I wrote that somewhere into one of my Nate's Evil Exploits stories, but I don't think I reached my intended audience. :D

I bought 50 Shades when I first decided I wanted to learn how to write sex into my novels.

And I stopped reading the first time she said 'Oh My'.

Because fuck that shit. That's why. It's so horrible and so popular. It makes my brain ache.
 
lovecraft68 said:
Usually its, oh for fuck's sake. the guy had brass knuckles on! No one gets hit in the face that many times with brass knuckles and gets up! And how many fucking bullets are in that gun?

How is it that guy never missed all movie, but of course he misses when he shoots at him!

Then looks at the wife....Jeez, I mean is it me?

Yes, honey, it is you.

Well, you're no help.:rolleyes:
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I gotta say, I always wonder how professional bad guys can't hit the broad side of a barn from inside and our hero sprays and prays and every single bullet hits its mark.

Remember that scene in Leathal Weapon where Riggs shoots a smiley face on the target (BTW: I CAN do that.) Then he totally misses a freakin' HELICOPTER with 30 shots. Seriously????
 
lovecraft68 said:
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I have such a hate on for 50 shades I won't even watch the honest trailers or Cinema sins of those two piles of garbage.
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Been thinking about you a lot lately. El Rey (television station) has a new commercial. "Forget fifty shades of grey. How about fifty shades of red? 'Saw' Marathon for Rip Your Heart Out Valentine's Day Marathon Weekend."

Very first time I heard it, I turned around going, "No. It can't be. Fucker said he was writing. Not buying a fucking television network."
 
RubenR said:
See... And that's where my bad reading kicks in.

I did enjoy reading it, and I'm totally happy it is fashionable enough that even my wife wants to see the movie. It's the only movie showing a bit flesh my wife deems suitable to see, so I take what I can get.

Watching scenes on internet all too soon becomes too repetitive (in, out, in, out... ehh... ehhhh.... EHHHHHnggg... O, yeah, baby!) and it is nice to see something together.
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Your wife is exactly the target audience. Shades was mommy porn, racier than Nora Roberts, but not out right porn.

Any woman who read it felt like she was reading something deliciously edgy, but would still run screaming from any actual BDSM story written here or for sale on amazon and other sites.

My dislike for it wasn't the 13 year old level of writing or the fact Anna set women's rights back fifty years and the story line was every single trope you can think of tossed in a blender, but as someone active in the BDSM life style since my late teens?

Gray was an abusive stalking sack of filth who took advantage of and manipulated a young girl who was supposed to be 22 but acted 15 which was the exact gae James really wanted seeing the whole thing was stolen from Twilight.

MY wife made an excellent point to someone recently saying that with the #metoo movement being such a big thing, that Gray was the same wealthy bullying manipulative piece of trash as all these guys getting ousted are.

But women think he's sexy.

Yeah.
 
My I said:
I gotta say, I always wonder how professional bad guys can't hit the broad side of a barn from inside and our hero sprays and prays and every single bullet hits its mark.

Remember that scene in Leathal Weapon where Riggs shoots a smiley face on the target (BTW: I CAN do that.) Then he totally misses a freakin' HELICOPTER with 30 shots. Seriously????
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I can do the smiley face too....but it takes a lot longer cause like I have to actually aim.:eek:

The fight with Jasper(Busey was awesome) was pretty good, but at the end the beaten to shit Riggs somehow pulls Glover's gun from him and still manages to shoot him....the first movie had some dark moments and Busey...anything after? Ugh. Joe little annoying mobster, Chris Rock? Even Rene Russo's hotness couldn't save those.

See the Punisher on Netflix? Billy Russo never misses. There's a scene where he takes out a bunch of people all with head shots, yet in a stair well he completely misses Castle even though Castle didn't even see him. :rolleyes:
 
lovecraft68 said:
...See the Punisher on Netflix? Billy Russo never misses. There's a scene where he takes out a bunch of people all with head shots, yet in a stair well he completely misses Castle even though Castle didn't even see him. :rolleyes:
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You want awesome action scenes you can't beat Hong Kong movies

The First Shootout - The Killer (1989) - he mist have 500 round mags or something

House Shootout (The Killer, Chow Yun Fat, 1989) - and okay, before I was born but it's good....

Ending Shootout - The Killer

Hard Boiled - Teahouse Shootout - Chow Yun Fat just goes gangsta on everyone in this opening scene from Hard Boiled. This is awesome and the last shot is classic Chow Yun Fat / John Woo

And here's another awesome shootout from Hard Boiled

John Woo Movies and the Berette M92FS's used - a compilation of shootouts from John Woo movies....
 
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ChloeTzang said:
You want awesome action scenes you can't beat Hong Kong movies

The First Shootout - The Killer (1989) - he mist have 500 round mags or something

House Shootout (The Killer, Chow Yun Fat, 1989) - and okay, before I was born but it's good....

Ending Shootout - The Killer

Hard Boiled - Teahouse Shootout - Chow Yun Fat just goes gangsta on everyone in this opening scene from Hard Boiled. This is awesome and the last shot is classic Chow Yun Fat / John Woo


And here's another awesome shootout from Hard Boiled

John Woo Movies and the Berette M92FS's used - a compilation of shootouts from John Woo movies....
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To return the favor as far as action/fight sequences go, check out the Series Banshee. Or just you tube Banshee fight scenes, just flat out brutal. Mostly realistic except of course the amount of punishment people can take. Lot of serious bad ass women in it as well.
 
I can read readin' but I can't write readin' and I can write writin' but I can't read writin' less it's mine.

Debbie :heart:
 
Unfortunately, once I started writing my own stories, I found I almost couldn't risk reading other authors' stories for fear I might see content that was too close to what I was working on. For example, I took a break from my writing one time and started reading a promising red H Lit story which, to my horror, featured a setting very similar to one of my own compositions - and the female main character had the same name! My story was almost complete, but I immediately stopped reading and had to change the FMC's name to avoid any conflict with the other story. There are over 50K stories in the Erotic Couplings category, yet I managed to click on that one. Since then I have to cautiously skim through the first page or so of any Lit story I'm thinking about reading to make sure there aren't any similarities to any story ideas I have in the pipeline.
 
KenNicottii said:
Unfortunately, once I started writing my own stories, I found I almost couldn't risk reading other authors' stories for fear I might see content that was too close to what I was working on. For example, I took a break from my writing one time and started reading a promising red H Lit story which, to my horror, featured a setting very similar to one of my own compositions - and the female main character had the same name! My story was almost complete, but I immediately stopped reading and had to change the FMC's name to avoid any conflict with the other story. There are over 50K stories in the Erotic Couplings category, yet I managed to click on that one. Since then I have to cautiously skim through the first page or so of any Lit story I'm thinking about reading to make sure there aren't any similarities to any story ideas I have in the pipeline.
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There is a finite number of ways to string together words in the English language. It may be a HUGE number, but it is still finite. You can't let that stop you from doing something you enjoy. As you pointed out, Literotica is a huge sample set of stories. It is a rare thing for a story to be truly unique anymore. But a story that is Well Told... That's something special, even if it's not unique.
 
LoquiSordidaAdMe said:
There is a finite number of ways to string together words in the English language. It may be a HUGE number, but it is still finite. You can't let that stop you from doing something you enjoy. As you pointed out, Literotica is a huge sample set of stories. It is a rare thing for a story to be truly unique anymore. But a story that is Well Told... That's something special, even if it's not unique.
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There are also a finite number of 'normal' sounding names to choose from. I go to name websites and scroll to a page at random, then choose a name that suits my character and doesn't seem too common, without being so odd it sounds silly... and almost every time end up posting a story with the same character name/s as at least one other author posting at the same time.

Given that's never going to be a point of difference, I just concentrate on the characters, and hope they're somehow distinguishable from all the others in my category. But I'm under no illusions my writing's in any way original.

It's a tiny world. :)
 
JasonClearwater said:
And I stopped reading the first time she said 'Oh My'.
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Ouch! Is it too late to edit the one "Oh my" to "Oh ..." in my story The Flume at Falcon Rock? I'll admit, a little voice was telling me there might be a better way to word Laurie's exclamation ... but I ignored it. The usage wasn't challenged by my 2 female editors - perhaps they have had occasion to utter that phrase themselves?
 
I don`t think being a writer has influenced my reading ... but I do realize that a lot of reading has influenced my reading. I tend to get a bit anal when I see things like misspelled words, bad grammar or spelling, even in English while I`m not even a native speaker myself. When I encounter a story which has too many of them I simply quit reading, even when the plot and characters are pretty interesting. I suppose I ended up having standards.

I`m not one to find plot holes and such in stories, allowing me to enjoy them, but I always seem to find them in my own writing :( Well, at least I can then correct them ...
 
Gentleman_G said:
I don`t think being a writer has influenced my reading ... but I do realize that a lot of reading has influenced my reading. I tend to get a bit anal when I see things like misspelled words, bad grammar or spelling, even in English while I`m not even a native speaker myself. When I encounter a story which has too many of them I simply quit reading, even when the plot and characters are pretty interesting. I suppose I ended up having standards.

I`m not one to find plot holes and such in stories, allowing me to enjoy them, but I always seem to find them in my own writing :( Well, at least I can then correct them ...
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I have to say, for a non-English speaker, your English is incredibly good. For a first-language English speaker, your English is very good.
 
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KindofHere said:
One thing I've notice when I read is what works for one author is a cardinal sin to another.

I picked up an old book by Louis L'Amour. The back says there are more than 225 million of his books in print. What I noticed is how many exclamations points he uses. He's probably used more in one book than some writers do in a lifetime.

Now when I see that, I wonder, 'Whose advice is worth taking?'

The authors (many famous) who say, 'Use them sparingly' or the guy who has over 225 million books in print? (Elmore Leonard said 2 to 3 every 100,000 words and his opinion is not one to brush aside).

Then I think, who cares, do what I want when I write and stop letting people get in my head.
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The people giving the advice often are not the people writing the books. Something to keep in mind.
 
KindofHere said:
The authors (many famous) who say, 'Use them sparingly' or the guy who has over 225 million books in print? (Elmore Leonard said 2 to 3 every 100,000 words and his opinion is not one to brush aside).
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I'd never confuse popularity or volume with brilliance or virtuosity. That's the Fifty Shades argument, or like saying Joseph Heller was a shit author because he took twenty-two years to publish his second novel.
 
JasonClearwater said:
Depressingly, this is very true.
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Well, see it this way: If there are no set rules, there`s always a chance you might succeed when you didn`t expect to.
It`s kind of similar to when you write a story you believe is only so-so, yet the (target) audience loves it, leaving you wonder what you did right. Which triggers the question whether you`re actually happy that your so-so story worked wonders while the work you`re most proud of is mostly ignored.

JasonClearwater said:
I have to say, for a non-English speaker, your English is incredibly good. For a first-language English speaker, your English is very good.
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Thanks. Fortunately, I`m under no illusions that I could do better, especially when I look at some of the people here - a larger vocabulary can make such a difference for descriptions and pacing.

One thing I`ve noticed is that reading a lot in English does help. Luckily for me, there`s plenty of that here.
 
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