What the #$&%??? - CrimeSpace2024-03-29T05:56:00Zhttps://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/537324:Topic:99324?commentId=537324%3AComment%3A100675&feed=yes&xn_auth=noSerling was a master. Old Twi…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-12-08:537324:Comment:1022432007-12-08T21:49:56.820ZDana Kinghttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/DanaKing
Serling was a master. Old Twilight Zones hold up well as stories even today; only the clothes and some of the production conventions date them. The stories about his sponsors also show that these questions are not new, or unique, to our generation of writers. I suspect we can find examples of Dickens being asked to provide more "something" by his publishers.
Serling was a master. Old Twilight Zones hold up well as stories even today; only the clothes and some of the production conventions date them. The stories about his sponsors also show that these questions are not new, or unique, to our generation of writers. I suspect we can find examples of Dickens being asked to provide more "something" by his publishers. After reading the first chapt…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-12-06:537324:Comment:1012162007-12-06T00:36:20.923ZMysteryDawghttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/mysdawg
After reading the first chapter of your book, the character came alive for me. Junior and 'the Bouncer' came alive through the language that you chose.<br />
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I can smell The Cellar. Consequences and repercussions...... I want to read the rest of it.
After reading the first chapter of your book, the character came alive for me. Junior and 'the Bouncer' came alive through the language that you chose.<br />
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I can smell The Cellar. Consequences and repercussions...... I want to read the rest of it. Way back in the day, there wa…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-12-05:537324:Comment:1011212007-12-05T18:48:25.327ZTodd Robinsonhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/BigDaddyThug
Way back in the day, there was a small rock club in the East Village called Brownies. The man who owned the joint (Brownie, of course), probably had an education that topped out somewhere around the third grade. Now, this was back when the East Village had a heroin junkie on every corner and the club was throwing hardcore punk shows five nights a week.<br />
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But if Brownie EVER heard ANYone cursing, you were tossed out of his club.<br />
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No worries, Jude. I said I wanted rousing, and wound up with a…
Way back in the day, there was a small rock club in the East Village called Brownies. The man who owned the joint (Brownie, of course), probably had an education that topped out somewhere around the third grade. Now, this was back when the East Village had a heroin junkie on every corner and the club was throwing hardcore punk shows five nights a week.<br />
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But if Brownie EVER heard ANYone cursing, you were tossed out of his club.<br />
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No worries, Jude. I said I wanted rousing, and wound up with a limp. I need to be careful what I ask for.<br />
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And yes. Gins does sound muuuuuuch better. Chalk up my last request as a typo and pass the booze Niiiiice.tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-12-05:537324:Comment:1011192007-12-05T18:39:04.095ZTodd Robinsonhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/BigDaddyThug
Niiiiice.
Niiiiice. CURSES!!!! J'ACCUSE!!!!!!!!!!…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-12-05:537324:Comment:1011172007-12-05T18:38:19.566ZTodd Robinsonhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/BigDaddyThug
CURSES!!!! J'ACCUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CURSES!!!! J'ACCUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yup, professors cuss plenty.…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-12-05:537324:Comment:1010602007-12-05T14:19:58.012ZI. J. Parkerhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
Yup, professors cuss plenty. It's part of the spirit of liberation. :) Will readers believe in a character who is a white-haired professor of literature and a kindly person but who curses and intersperses lectures and conversations with liberal sprinklings of the f-word? I doubt it, but I have known such professors. They were my colleagues.
Yup, professors cuss plenty. It's part of the spirit of liberation. :) Will readers believe in a character who is a white-haired professor of literature and a kindly person but who curses and intersperses lectures and conversations with liberal sprinklings of the f-word? I doubt it, but I have known such professors. They were my colleagues. Wow. I guess some readers hav…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-12-05:537324:Comment:1008192007-12-05T03:11:14.232ZJude Hardinhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/festus
Wow. I guess some readers have some preconceived notion about how educated/uneducated people talk. I've known professors who cussed like boatswain's mates ;) and people who never finished high school who say "fooey!" when they hit their thumb with a hammer. Education has nothing to do with it.<br />
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Let me just say...I do know what you're getting at here, Todd, and I apologize if my former comments were offensive.<br />
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I'll settle for two <i>gins</i> and a cookie. :)
Wow. I guess some readers have some preconceived notion about how educated/uneducated people talk. I've known professors who cussed like boatswain's mates ;) and people who never finished high school who say "fooey!" when they hit their thumb with a hammer. Education has nothing to do with it.<br />
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Let me just say...I do know what you're getting at here, Todd, and I apologize if my former comments were offensive.<br />
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I'll settle for two <i>gins</i> and a cookie. :) That kills me! I once got a c…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-12-05:537324:Comment:1008032007-12-05T02:08:54.968ZTodd Robinsonhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/BigDaddyThug
That kills me! I once got a complaint that my protagonist spoke like a course, uneducated person.<br />
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My protagonist is a bouncer in a Boston rock club.<br />
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Duh....<br />
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I guess only Rhodes scholars are acceptable characters for some.
That kills me! I once got a complaint that my protagonist spoke like a course, uneducated person.<br />
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My protagonist is a bouncer in a Boston rock club.<br />
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Duh....<br />
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I guess only Rhodes scholars are acceptable characters for some. I'm totally late to this part…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-12-05:537324:Comment:1007852007-12-05T01:49:53.546ZKaren E. Olsonhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/keolson
I'm totally late to this party, and I admit I haven't read all the comments. But as a writer whose journalist protagonist curses like a trucker (and she's a woman), I do risk losing readers and markets. However, I will not change the way my protag talks, because it's not gratuitous. I think we all have to be true to our characters, and if they curse, they curse. (I do get my share of emails from older women, usually, who are quite offended and don't think anyone has ever used the f-word in New…
I'm totally late to this party, and I admit I haven't read all the comments. But as a writer whose journalist protagonist curses like a trucker (and she's a woman), I do risk losing readers and markets. However, I will not change the way my protag talks, because it's not gratuitous. I think we all have to be true to our characters, and if they curse, they curse. (I do get my share of emails from older women, usually, who are quite offended and don't think anyone has ever used the f-word in New Haven, which makes me chuckle.) And I gots plenty of both, I.…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-12-05:537324:Comment:1007492007-12-05T00:07:13.592ZTodd Robinsonhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/BigDaddyThug
And I gots plenty of both, I.J. I'll settle for two grins and a cookle.
And I gots plenty of both, I.J. I'll settle for two grins and a cookle.