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    Quote Originally Posted by Darcy88 View Post

    I am also having a lot of fun putting into my novel my ideal woman - strong, independent, almost rugged and butch. The main female character of my novel lives in the middle of nowhere by herself with her dog and hunts with a 22 for small game and fetches water from a river nearby her cabin.
    Your ideal woman is Juniper?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alexander III View Post
    Your ideal woman is Juniper?
    Oi! I'm not butch, I'm too small to be butch.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alexander III View Post
    Your ideal woman is Juniper?
    Yep. And she's even got glasses.

    And butch was the wrong word. I meant strong. A woman has to be strong, have the spirit of a fighter.

    But I'm bitter and jaded now, given up entirely on romance. I will still perpetuate the romantic myth in my writing though. I write of love so prettily I shall entrap others into the same romantic idealism I've been forever plagued by.
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    Darcy it sounds like you need to go to a titty bar.

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    Darcy it sounds like you need to go to a titty bar.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Darcy88 View Post
    But I'm bitter and jaded now, given up entirely on romance. I will still perpetuate the romantic myth in my writing though. I write of love so prettily I shall entrap others into the same romantic idealism I've been forever plagued by.
    You're in good company there. If Dante and Yeats could play that hand and gain immortality, why not you?

    When it comes to "the love interest" people tend to re-write the same woman into every story (unless, like Hemingway, they trade in women every few years) - just look at Fitzgerald.
    I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darcy88 View Post
    Yep. And she's even got glasses.
    Hah! I'll give you the contact info for my fanclub.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf View Post
    Hah! I'll give you the contact info for my fanclub.
    Wait, how does one get a fan-club damnit?!? I want one too, I totally deserve a fan club.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alexander III View Post
    Wait, how does one get a fan-club damnit?!? I want one too, I totally deserve a fan club.
    Well Google was no help with this one, and now the people who monitor Google searches 24/7 think I'm a narcissist
    I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alexander III View Post
    Wait, how does one get a fan-club damnit?!? I want one too, I totally deserve a fan club.
    You've got to have fans first.
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    I was once told I had a fan club, but I think it was a joke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stlukesguild View Post
    Darcy it sounds like you need to go to a titty bar.



    Mutatis! Somebody beat you to the punch!
    Darcy and I totally need to get together, hit the skin clubs, and pick up some strange. You're all welcome to tag along, just don't mess up my swagger.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandis View Post
    Darcy and I totally need to get together, hit the skin clubs, and pick up some strange. You're all welcome to tag along, just don't mess up my swagger.
    Me on my way to meet up with you to go out and slay the ladies - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okpCx87orOA

    Quote Originally Posted by Charles Darnay View Post
    You're in good company there. If Dante and Yeats could play that hand and gain immortality, why not you?

    When it comes to "the love interest" people tend to re-write the same woman into every story (unless, like Hemingway, they trade in women every few years) - just look at Fitzgerald.
    That's what I love about writing - I can take my dreams and my impulses and use them as the raw material for creating characters and plots and scenes. On the outside I can appear entirely reserved while in my head and on the page grand things are happening. I do not make it perfect for them, I hit them with a many tragic turns, but there is still a purity and purposefulness to my art that is hard to find in real life.

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    Writing, for me, is a waste of time outside of conversation; pointless, flat, temporary. Other people can write. I'll enjoy reading.

    That said, I'm thinking of churning out trash novels for paychecks. I could easily write one a day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Varenne Rodin View Post
    That said, I'm thinking of churning out trash novels for paychecks. I could easily write one a day.
    I really wish I could do this. Or write Young Adult fiction. There's such a demand for that.
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