The "I don't want to talk about AI" thread, and the new topic is: do I spot some actual literary discussion there?!

[Bamagan]

I'm not letting you get away from this so easily!

My story Red Hot is told from the POV of Daz, a former boyband heart throb who meets a sexy woman who used to be a fan. She seduces him over the course of a series of meetings, taking things further each time.

Several readers commented that they'd like to know more about the woman, Myrna. In my head, her story already exists: after an upheaval in her life (divorce or separation) she's determined to play by her own rules. She was an awkward teen, and she's just beginning to realise that as a grown woman she's sexy and desirable, and she can get what she wants. But she does things at her own pace as she forces herself to adjust to this liberating mentality.

None of that is mentioned in the story, and I'm not sure all of it was crystalised in my mind when I was writing. But that's Myrna's tale, and there in the negative spaces in the story. The encounters are as much Myrna's tale as they are Daz's.

Guess we should have known that discussion of literary techniques would kill a thread.

 

[StillStunned]

As long as the thread is ready to spring into action as soon as the AI discussions flare up again, I'm happy to let it slumber for now.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Bitch, pussy and plot bunny ....