(no subject)

[bleedtoblue.livejournal.com]

Puleeeeaaaaz...LKH discusses her writing with the SciFi Channel here as reported by the Writer's Feed.

Please note her remarks about "not sacrificing characterization for plot." Oh, my.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_cynical_beauty/]

This made me laugh, a lot.

[bleedtoblue.livejournal.com]

Most things LKH make me laugh these days.....or weep with frustration.

[tooimpurenangel.livejournal.com]

LKH makes my head hurt.

[bleedtoblue.livejournal.com]

She has that effect on most of us. I just wanted to share the pain.

[tooimpurenangel.livejournal.com]

You are SO cruel=p

[nekojita.livejournal.com]

Outlines were meant to bend, or break

I think she's confusing her characters for the plot outlines. Her characters she twists into these convoluted shapes until they're unrecognizable (personality-wise and physically), the plot outlines... well, she's just pretty much scrapped all of them in favor of 'yet another man has fallen for Anita's many *coughsnotcoughs* charms and they have horrid sex'.

[bleedtoblue.livejournal.com]

well, hi there, fancy meeting you in a place like this! *G* LKH is the reason I started writing fanfic...what she did to her characters was too horrible to allow. So I wrote ABVH fanfic to make myself feel better about it!

[nekojita.livejournal.com]

I shall have to read those! (if you have them posted). I've been lurking on this group for a couple of months now, utterly amazed at how a once promising series has turned so wrong and its utterly batshit crazy writer's antics. You must have missed my LKH rants on my LJ!

[bleedtoblue.livejournal.com]

I have a writing journal where all my drivel is stuck up. I did miss your LKH rants or I would have joined right in. So much promise, such a great premise, a wonderful 'world', fabulous (and so slashable) characters and then.....she lost it. And batshit crazy is most accurate. But I found fanfic because of ABVH so I owe a huge debt of gratitude!

[nekojita.livejournal.com]

I think I rant about her a fair bit because she really disappointed me. Had an intriguing plot, some very nice characters (was never that into Anita, but Jean-Claude and Asher, amongst others)... and then turned it into the Super Mary Sue Slut series of the world. Gah. Maybe it's time to rant about her again.

I've actually toyed w/ a thought of having some WK and FF7 boys enter the ABVH world, paired up in various triumverates, and pretty much bitch-slap Anita around. Heh.

[bleedtoblue.livejournal.com]

I just slash her characters a bit and ignore Anita as much as possible...but yes, a bit of Anita Abuse would be good!

[nekojita.livejournal.com]

The shame is, she's got so many great boys to slash together but refuses to do much w/ them in that regard. Meh, it would be easier to handle if the female character she insists they adore and lust after was remotely interesting.

[alex-lebeau.livejournal.com]

On a side note, your icon. Love. Do you have the entire doujin of that? (I lost my copies, sadly.)


It would be nice if there was more fanfic to be found, however. Thanks to Her Rabidness, you have to hunt like a bitch to find it.

[hbrogan.livejournal.com]

At least for me. I will never sacrifice characterization for plot. The plot can be reworked; character growth, once screwed up, is almost irretrievable. I don't always like the choices my characters make, but I am amazed that they were "alive" enough to make the choice, to argue with me. I've finally made peace with the fact I'm wrong, a lot.

Laurell, honey, forget about being wrong. Make peace with the fact that you're crazy, a lot.

[bleedtoblue.livejournal.com]

The inconsistency of her writing carries over into RL...or vice versa....

[ladyravana.livejournal.com]

Hey there noah! Fancy seeing you pop up! How goes it?

*waves* (BTW, it's Red. From the PDS MB? Remember me?)

And well, all things considered, at least the interview was blessedly short. And believe me, I've ranted about Laurell plenty myself. It's just...all become so sad. I've become so bitterly disappointed in this series.

Outlines were meant to bend, or break.

She hasn't broken them, she's shattered them.

At least for me. I will never sacrifice characterization for plot.

But you'll GLADLY sacrafice characterization AND plot for badly written sex-fu plot.

The plot can be reworked; character growth, once screwed up, is almost irretrievable.

Well what do you know, she's right for once. She has irrevocably ruined her characters, and it's only going to get worse from here on out.

*shakes head and sighs* Alas, I lament the fall of this series...fanfiction is the only solace we have left, no?

See you around noah!

[bleedtoblue.livejournal.com]

Hey, good to see you!

You're right, fanfiction is all we have....*sniff* Although some of it is better than the original!

[ladyravana.livejournal.com]

True, that! Like BeeGee's stuff!^^

You know, it's a shame she can't take over the legal rights of the series, she writes such wonderful fics, and I'm sure she could do wonders with it, lol!

Alas, wishful thinking, no?

And well, as for LKH...I accidentally typed the word "plot" referring to her recent books in my last comment. Ooops. My bad.

And really, I don't know what you'd call her books at this point. I don't think you could even call them erotica.

Oh hell, we'll just call it bad porn and leave it at that.

Link Fix

[naeko.livejournal.com]

The interview mentioned here can be found at http://www.writerswrite.com/blog/822061, as the syndicated link provided is no longer valid.

Laurell K. Hamilton Gives Dating Advice to Her Characters
Bestselling novelist Laurell K. Hamilton discusses plotting in an interview with the Sci Fi Channel.

Sci Fi: Do you allow your characters the luxury of taking the story in an unexpected turn, or do you stick to the original outline? Any examples?

Hamilton: Outlines were meant to bend, or break. At least for me. I will never sacrifice characterization for plot. The plot can be reworked; character growth, once screwed up, is almost irretrievable. I don't always like the choices my characters make, but I am amazed that they were "alive" enough to make the choice, to argue with me. I've finally made peace with the fact I'm wrong, a lot.

Example: Early in the series I would have bet good money that Jean-Claude would never be a romantic lead. I was so tired of the vampire as a romantic figure. I mean, they are walking corpses, what's so hot about that? That was honestly how Anita and I both felt in the first book, Guilty Pleasures.

I swore that I'd kill him before he ever became a true romantic lead. It would take me two more books before I began to understand that I couldn't kill Jean-Claude off, that losing him would hurt Anita, and me. Anita is like most of my friends—I can give them dating advice, but they rarely take it. Career advice, I don't even try. I would like to see Anita truly happy for more than moments at a time, but I no longer know the route we will be taking to get there.

Laurell seemed a tad peeved when the the interviewers referred to her as a "vampire writer," which made it sound like she's vampire who just happens to write. She responded that she doesn't think of herself as a "vampire writer" -- saying "Funny how no one ever says someone is a werewolf writer. My main character isn't even a vampire....My books are mysteries, romance, fantasy (some people have even called them science fiction)."

We like the idea of a "vampire writer." By day, she sleeps or works on her computer in a room with no windows. By night, she prowls the streets looking for...well, you get the idea.

Posted on 2006-08-22