tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post115116824238577035..comments2023-10-11T09:22:33.136-04:00Comments on Paperback Writer: Storm WarningsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-1151358387628456642006-06-26T17:46:00.000-04:002006-06-26T17:46:00.000-04:00Have you seen the Mary Sue Litmus Test?Have you seen the <A HREF="http://www.onlyfiction.net/marysue2.html" REL="nofollow">Mary Sue Litmus Test</A>?Zoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17702478924392188540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-1151290565943518012006-06-25T22:56:00.000-04:002006-06-25T22:56:00.000-04:00Heh. In the current project, I had a walk-on char...Heh. In the current project, I had a walk-on character that was a rather nasty portrait of a woman I work with. Fortunately, I realized what i was doing and have managed to excise her -- the character served on purpose except to make the woman look as stupid as I think she is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-1151287491141766762006-06-25T22:04:00.000-04:002006-06-25T22:04:00.000-04:00It's not significant that the protagonist of my un...It's not significant that the protagonist of my unpub'd trilogy is quite literally henpecked into taking a job he doesn't want. Not significant at all. <BR/><BR/>Hilarious post, Sheila ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-1151277335767472242006-06-25T19:15:00.000-04:002006-06-25T19:15:00.000-04:00Scott, I was there in September, 2003. It's a gor...Scott, I was there in September, 2003. It's a gorgeous place. I have pictures around here somewhere, but I was on a disposable camera that trip, because I wasn't confident I could take any of my electronics into Turkey without them being confiscated, so they aren't on the PC. To be safe, the only electronics I took was my wristwatch.Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805501348812702651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-1151269119501125692006-06-25T16:58:00.000-04:002006-06-25T16:58:00.000-04:00I have a small sort of a life so my characters hav...I have a small sort of a life so my characters have little connections to it: They fall asleep when I'm tired and they're currently kvetching about the rain. . .Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02495558736099438348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-1151260491510582312006-06-25T14:34:00.000-04:002006-06-25T14:34:00.000-04:00Guilty. I give all the woman and girls in my book...Guilty. I give all the woman and girls in my books great hair. Hey, you would too if your mother used to play hair dresser with your hair. Picture a skinny little white girl with Don King's hair.Sofie Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16830230500527705589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-1151256417837243092006-06-25T13:26:00.000-04:002006-06-25T13:26:00.000-04:003. Courageously your protagonist struggles to hide...<I>3. Courageously your protagonist struggles to hide and control a terrifying secret or secret superpower that, if unleashed, will kill every living member of the opposite gender on the planet.</I><BR/><BR/>Back at school I was tempted to invent a power that would eliminate every member of my own gender, at least in its teenage incarnation.<BR/><BR/>Girls can be a worse bullies than boys. <BR/><BR/>But since I already then stuck to historical fiction, I was content with an amazing Mary Sue self insert in my <I>War and Peace</I> fanfiction. Yep, she sorta kicked Napoleon of of Russia single handedly. ;)<BR/><BR/>No. 4 cracked me up.Gabriele Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205770868139083575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-1151254853074357532006-06-25T13:00:00.000-04:002006-06-25T13:00:00.000-04:00Now, see, THAT'S the Mary Sue syndrome.Now, see, THAT'S the Mary Sue syndrome.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-1151247477137767582006-06-25T10:57:00.000-04:002006-06-25T10:57:00.000-04:00Hi Jean,Historical, as charged :) This particular...Hi Jean,<BR/><BR/>Historical, as charged :) This particular civil war was in 357 BCE.<BR/><BR/>I've never been to Rhodes personally, but I can appreciate any place with 300 days of blue-sky sunshine a year <I>and</I> lots of ruins :)Scott Odenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17917296669418463518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-1151246059013164872006-06-25T10:34:00.000-04:002006-06-25T10:34:00.000-04:00...trying to imagine civil war in modern-day Rhode......trying to imagine civil war in modern-day Rhodes...Scott, you must be writing a historical of some kind, right? Rhodes is so beautiful; I hope you aren't ruining it with a civil war. There is that old city wall, though. It must have been used in the past.<BR/><BR/>I'll have to keep this list close at hand. I'll never personally need the celebrity list from a few days ago, but this one...one never knows.Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805501348812702651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-1151245752594157222006-06-25T10:29:00.000-04:002006-06-25T10:29:00.000-04:00You dedicate the book to your ex, who bears a stri...<EM> You dedicate the book to your ex, who bears a striking resemblance to the slime-oozing, black-hearted antagonist who suffers enormously before dying a violent but well-deserved death in the end. You never actually give your ex a copy of the book.</EM><BR/><BR/>so this one doesn't count if you give your ex a copy... <BR/><BR/>;)<BR/><BR/>loved the list.Shiloh Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07785046046157000126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-1151237905237150572006-06-25T08:18:00.000-04:002006-06-25T08:18:00.000-04:00I can't help it. I totally snorted completely unla...I can't help it. I totally snorted completely unladylike at number 4:<BR/><BR/>4. Every character in the novel wants to have sex with your protagonist, and/or tries to have sex with your protagonist. <BR/><BR/>4a. Female protagonist: Same as #4, but no one succeeds.<BR/><BR/>4b. Female protagonist in an LKH knockoff: Same as #4, but everyone succeeds.<BR/><BR/>Then laugh myself into a stitch. Thanks, PBW, for this! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-1151223698285821032006-06-25T04:21:00.000-04:002006-06-25T04:21:00.000-04:00Awesome. Just awesome.#11 being, naturally:Your pr...Awesome. Just awesome.<BR/><BR/>#11 being, naturally:<BR/><BR/>Your protagonist listens to trendy, goth-y emo music all the time. For some unfathomable reason.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-1151209532065959962006-06-25T00:25:00.000-04:002006-06-25T00:25:00.000-04:00So, you're saying I shouldn't have made my ex-girl...So, you're saying I shouldn't have made my ex-girlfriend into a heartless Greek courtesan and left her to die in a civil war on Rhodes? Hmmm . . . I guess I probably shouldn't have had the protagonist of <I>Men of Bronze</I> kill his cheating wife, either . . . though if it makes any difference, he did feel bad about it :)Scott Odenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17917296669418463518noreply@blogger.com