Lover of Snark

[mulder200.livejournal.com]

Hello, new member here. I recently got myself roped into LKH by reading The Harlequin. I wrote a book review about on my own journal and needless to say was curious for more. That book was probably one of the most explicit mainstream porn books I have ever read. LOL! I mean I was just so fasicinated that she would spend so much time on sex.

So I started to read the books from the very beginning and I have to say that while Anita is one MAJOR bitch with mental problems and issues, the books were still good to read.

So anyway, I have to ask you follower snarkers: When was the moment the series Jumping The Shark?

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A Pre-AB:VH Anita!!

[nightangel486.livejournal.com]

Delete this if it's too off-topic, but I felt I just had to share this.

I was watching a ridiculous obscure movie from the 80s last night called "My Demon Lover."  Basically the premise is this guy has been cursed so that every time he gets turned on/aroused (which apparently is often) he turns into a demon.  

Long story short, the main love interest has a Best Friend who is Hispanic (or at least her faint attempts at an accent led me to believe she was supposed to be) and is pale with dark, curly, crazily big hairsprayed hair and a rather ample figure.  She seems like a pretty down to earth, tough as nails character (who also happens to have psychic powahz) until the end of the movie, when she and the Demon Lover are trying to save love-interest-girl from another, evil demon.  Demon Lover needs to turn into a demon so he can use his demon-wingalings to fly up and save her, but can't get aroused in a situation like this, obviously.  He's trying to tactfully explain this to Best Friend, who interrupts him and says "so wait, you need to have sex to turn into the demon?....well, you just hit the motherload!" and proceeds to jump him and is strangely very turned on when he starts going into demon mode, and there is much thrashing and moaning.  

It just reminded me so much of Anita, from the character herself being Hispanic or half-Hispanic, having a large chest, some kind of supernatural power, AND having sex up the demon for the good of the world and to save her friend (though she really is only too happy to oblige).  Maybe LKH saw the movie and was "inspired"!

the characters made me!

[contrariwise.livejournal.com]

So I was browsing at the library and picked up Janet Evanovich's^* How I Write. Right there, on page 14, an interesting passage jumped out at me:

Q: Some people say they start writing and the character tells them what's next. In other words, the characters take over for the author. Do your characters ever surprise you like that?

Janet: NO! What does surprise me is that people say this happens. This is fiction! Your character doesn't do anything you don't want him to!

You do have to be very careful never to force a character to do something simply because you think he needs to do it for the sake of the plot or because you think it's funny or because you think it's hot or it's cute or whatever. Characters have to do what they are supposed to do according to your creation of them and your plot line. The bottom line is: Writers control the story and the characters. And don't let anyone tell you different--particularly your main character.

For some reason, I thought immediately of a certain author...


^*She writes the Stephanie Plum series, featuring a spunky (but not very good at her job) bounty hunter, her wacky family, and her two on-again/off-again hot dudes. It's a fluff series, but it knows it. *g*