elsol
I'm still sleeepy!
- Joined
- Jan 16, 2005
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Anonymous feedback questions:
Is it a real question?
A sly criticism?
Do they stay up asking, "Why didn't he reply? Bastard!"
Not that it well... but here goes in case they are sitting somewhere depressed that I didn't answer:
Anon question1 (Bus Story): Any chance of a follow up story?
Anon answer: I rarely do follow-up stories, for me stories have definitive endings and when I start to think... 'if I were to continue this, how would I do it?' Inevitably, the answer is to kill off a character.
I'm a bit off a tragedy whore when it comes to my characters... so I try VERY hard not to do follow-up because my vision and the reader's never match.
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Anon question2 (Gray Shades of Evil): why did he let the first few brothers off so easily with a quick death, given what he did in the end? it was if there were 2 different killers...one a hit man, one a comanche.
Anon answer: It was one man against many... but a sub-set of them were mobile and working out of a home base. A sound strategy is to ambush the outliers and then move on the center. Jason wanted them all to suffer, but he wanted them all dead more.
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Anon question3 (Gray Shades of Evil): also, his dead sister was preggers, wouldn't jason have taken revenge on those who sent her to die on the deadly mission - alone?
Anon answer 3: You have to let it go somewhere... respecting her choices is a good place to start... she chose to be in that type of relationship.
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Anon comment4 (Sine equals Cosine): The off-state of the sex scenes...
Anon answer4: There's a certain read of this story that says that Michael hid 90% of his personality from the woman he 'loved'... why? And how could the sex scenes be written 'deeply' if the protagonist doesn't have faith in love anymore.
And is this answer just writer pretention? Of course, it is! But I think a dividing line between erotica and porn can be whether the sex tells a part of the story; sometimes I get excited and it's JUST sex, but there are times that I KNOW I've succeeded in my personal goal for the sex to make the story more complete.
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Okay... now I feel better. Nobody hating me for not responding, right?
Sincerely,
ElSol
Is it a real question?
A sly criticism?
Do they stay up asking, "Why didn't he reply? Bastard!"
Not that it well... but here goes in case they are sitting somewhere depressed that I didn't answer:
Anon question1 (Bus Story): Any chance of a follow up story?
Anon answer: I rarely do follow-up stories, for me stories have definitive endings and when I start to think... 'if I were to continue this, how would I do it?' Inevitably, the answer is to kill off a character.
I'm a bit off a tragedy whore when it comes to my characters... so I try VERY hard not to do follow-up because my vision and the reader's never match.
-----
Anon question2 (Gray Shades of Evil): why did he let the first few brothers off so easily with a quick death, given what he did in the end? it was if there were 2 different killers...one a hit man, one a comanche.
Anon answer: It was one man against many... but a sub-set of them were mobile and working out of a home base. A sound strategy is to ambush the outliers and then move on the center. Jason wanted them all to suffer, but he wanted them all dead more.
-----
Anon question3 (Gray Shades of Evil): also, his dead sister was preggers, wouldn't jason have taken revenge on those who sent her to die on the deadly mission - alone?
Anon answer 3: You have to let it go somewhere... respecting her choices is a good place to start... she chose to be in that type of relationship.
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Anon comment4 (Sine equals Cosine): The off-state of the sex scenes...
Anon answer4: There's a certain read of this story that says that Michael hid 90% of his personality from the woman he 'loved'... why? And how could the sex scenes be written 'deeply' if the protagonist doesn't have faith in love anymore.
And is this answer just writer pretention? Of course, it is! But I think a dividing line between erotica and porn can be whether the sex tells a part of the story; sometimes I get excited and it's JUST sex, but there are times that I KNOW I've succeeded in my personal goal for the sex to make the story more complete.
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Okay... now I feel better. Nobody hating me for not responding, right?
Sincerely,
ElSol
