Comments - Writing Challenge - Write to Your Opposite (SEX) - CrimeSpace2024-03-29T13:10:55Zhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=537324%3ABlogPost%3A230995&xn_auth=noJon - thanks for the alert; I…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-03-29:537324:Comment:2311992010-03-29T19:35:46.265Zrobert walkerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/robertwalker
Jon - thanks for the alert; I wrote Crimespace here to ask if they could fix the darn link; I have no idea how this got tangled as I know no one in Russia or how such comes about. I kid you not.
Jon - thanks for the alert; I wrote Crimespace here to ask if they could fix the darn link; I have no idea how this got tangled as I know no one in Russia or how such comes about. I kid you not. Robert--the link on your home…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-03-29:537324:Comment:2311532010-03-29T04:33:26.707ZJon Loomishttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JonLoomis
Robert--the link on your homepage here sent me--twice--to a hot Russian babes site. Seriously. You might want to check it.
Robert--the link on your homepage here sent me--twice--to a hot Russian babes site. Seriously. You might want to check it. Allie - read your story and a…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-03-29:537324:Comment:2311522010-03-29T03:26:12.691Zrobert walkerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/robertwalker
Allie - read your story and aside from it being a charming tale, as I recall those nervous days on first date at that age, I think you captured the boy's POV perfectly. Well done. Hope you find a place for the story. I am impressed. The snow cones, popcorn, and roach all worked for me.
Allie - read your story and aside from it being a charming tale, as I recall those nervous days on first date at that age, I think you captured the boy's POV perfectly. Well done. Hope you find a place for the story. I am impressed. The snow cones, popcorn, and roach all worked for me. Here's a good short by a fema…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-03-29:537324:Comment:2311492010-03-29T03:15:49.039ZAlliehttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Allie
Here's a good short by a female writing a teenage boy:<br />
<a href="http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/susan-tepper/cockroach" target="_blank">http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/susan-tepper/cockroach</a>
Here's a good short by a female writing a teenage boy:<br />
<a href="http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/susan-tepper/cockroach" target="_blank">http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/susan-tepper/cockroach</a> are you going to the right si…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-03-29:537324:Comment:2311472010-03-29T02:48:09.541Zrobert walkerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/robertwalker
are you going to the right site - <a href="http://www.robertwalkerbooks.com" target="_blank">www.robertwalkerbooks.com</a> or are you just puttin me on? No use WW in middle as that is an OLD taken down site.
are you going to the right site - <a href="http://www.robertwalkerbooks.com" target="_blank">www.robertwalkerbooks.com</a> or are you just puttin me on? No use WW in middle as that is an OLD taken down site. Hey, Robert--your website see…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-03-28:537324:Comment:2311292010-03-28T19:44:04.715ZJon Loomishttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JonLoomis
Hey, Robert--your website seems to have been eaten by one of those "want to meet hot Russian chicks?" spam sites. Which was interesting, but didn't contain the list of your published books I was hoping to find.<br />
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I write from both male and female POVs. The thing that works for me is asking my wife to vet the bits in female POVs; she's a fine fiction writer (way better than me), and a lot smarter and hipper than I am--so if she tells me I've screwed something up, I take her word for it. It's a…
Hey, Robert--your website seems to have been eaten by one of those "want to meet hot Russian chicks?" spam sites. Which was interesting, but didn't contain the list of your published books I was hoping to find.<br />
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I write from both male and female POVs. The thing that works for me is asking my wife to vet the bits in female POVs; she's a fine fiction writer (way better than me), and a lot smarter and hipper than I am--so if she tells me I've screwed something up, I take her word for it. It's a great system. I do everything in my power t…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-03-28:537324:Comment:2310972010-03-28T19:05:21.312Zrobert walkerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/robertwalker
I do everything in my power to replace words like stuff, things, get/got with more meaninful words, more sophisticated words in general, and I do all in my power to cut down on the verb to be for an action verb. Was built by is not as active as GM built. But more importantly, when an author using first, second, or third person overuses any word to distraction, and WAS can certainly come into play twenty times in a pargraph if we allow it, then I get hives and cannot read on. Same is true of…
I do everything in my power to replace words like stuff, things, get/got with more meaninful words, more sophisticated words in general, and I do all in my power to cut down on the verb to be for an action verb. Was built by is not as active as GM built. But more importantly, when an author using first, second, or third person overuses any word to distraction, and WAS can certainly come into play twenty times in a pargraph if we allow it, then I get hives and cannot read on. Same is true of I...I..I Iyitis in using I througout a first person narrative; a writer needs to reduce the references BACK to I,me,my,myself, mine...me, me.me....else it begins to sound like home movies. The action verb has a mental image put up on the screen the reader watches in his head and aciton verbs can even carry sounds and odors for the reader to pick up on, Kodak moments I call them. Whereas what visual image or soudtrack or odor comes along with the verb Was or is or were or has/had? Are? No visual or sensual buttons are pushed. That is what I mean by active vs. passive and it take far more work on the part of the writer than narration riddled with helping verbs and passive constructions in my humble opininon I have no problem with the me…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-03-28:537324:Comment:2310942010-03-28T17:43:12.364ZI. J. Parkerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
I have no problem with the men writing women and vice versa (my own protagonist is male). I was only commenting on the stylistic aspects. The voice business is, of course, quite different if you have first person narrative.
I have no problem with the men writing women and vice versa (my own protagonist is male). I was only commenting on the stylistic aspects. The voice business is, of course, quite different if you have first person narrative. General Motors built the cars…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-03-28:537324:Comment:2310822010-03-28T14:02:28.718Zrobert walkerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/robertwalker
General Motors built the cars -- is for me then. I write multiple POV. I need to be able to write from the POV of anyone on the planet. I personally am bored to death by middle class American monologue only narratives/and I believe you mis-read my inent in looking at men doing women, women doing men here. It can be done badly as in so and so's work, and it can be done well in so and so's work but it takes work.<br />
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General Motors built the cars -- is for me then. I write multiple POV. I need to be able to write from the POV of anyone on the planet. I personally am bored to death by middle class American monologue only narratives/and I believe you mis-read my inent in looking at men doing women, women doing men here. It can be done badly as in so and so's work, and it can be done well in so and so's work but it takes work.<br />
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rob Nah. That's pretty simplistic…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2010-03-28:537324:Comment:2310802010-03-28T13:52:08.717ZI. J. Parkerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
Nah. That's pretty simplistic. Many voices are possibly. And I do like "passive voice" confined to its proper grammatical meaning, that is the verbforms used when the subject is passive, as in "The cars were built by General Motors."
Nah. That's pretty simplistic. Many voices are possibly. And I do like "passive voice" confined to its proper grammatical meaning, that is the verbforms used when the subject is passive, as in "The cars were built by General Motors."