Blogflogs: Two for the Price of LOL
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lkh_lashoutsSOURCE: Casual Sex?
"I've been listening to the musical HAIRSPRAY for the last few days. ...(You're) Timeless to Me is a song about real love. ... I've always been more into relationships once I really know a person... The fact that I don't understand casual dating, and feel that sex is very emotional and a commitment of sorts, is probably why Merry and Anita have collected so many men. If I could understand casual sex then they could, too. But I don't, understand it."
Right. Because Laurell clearly only writes about nuanced, long-term relationships involving mutually consensual and caring sex. She would never, ever, ever write about being supernaturally forced to have sex, because that would be wrong. And she wuvs her characters so very, very much. Right?
"Your body and your mind are who you are. So, why would you share your body with someone who doesn't want your mind, too? If you can't talk to someone, and enjoy each other's company, then why have sex? Good sex, no, great sex, is about communication ..."
Yes. Because nothing says sexy like long-winded dialogues abouthypocrisy 'vampire politics' and mandatory sex with Anita.
"Can you be yourself with someone you don't know? The answer for me has always been, no. But then, as more than one man over the years has said, "You're serious as a heart attack about everything." Damn straight."
They mean as painful as a heart attack, dear.
SOURCE: Happy Presidents Day
"It's taken me all day to get four pages. I listened to HAIRSPRAY, then switched to 1776."
Won't somebody open up the window? Too many flies. Too many flies. ... Um, yes. I can see how 1776 would remind her of Anita.
"It meant that Trinity was off school, and though I had help to take her to a movie, and other things, no one could help with the guilt. I'd hoped to finish my pages in the morning and then Jon and I could have taken her to the movie ourselves, but the morning was totally unproductive. Totally."
Sigh. For someone that constantly talks about being in charge, needing a break, and working so hard, you'd think she'd want to go to a movie with her family. Or that her guilt would be about people, rather than pages.
"My job is so hard to plan around. Some glorious days I get my pages done in two hours or less. Some days it takes six to eight hours to get the same number of pages."
OMG! Two to eight whole hours of work! In her own house! With a staff! However does she manage? What a tortured artiste! Call Amnesty International, RIGHT NOW!
"How do I plan around something that can vary that much?"
Set stable working hours? Create a plot outline and character information sheets, so you know what's happening next? Not write?
"Answer, you don't, you can't."
No. YOU can't.
"God, this was a slog of a day, like walking through thigh deep mud, but I did it. I have my pages, I have my progress, now I am out of here."
Such a martyr... from whom we can learn ever so much...
"I've been listening to the musical HAIRSPRAY for the last few days. ...(You're) Timeless to Me is a song about real love. ... I've always been more into relationships once I really know a person... The fact that I don't understand casual dating, and feel that sex is very emotional and a commitment of sorts, is probably why Merry and Anita have collected so many men. If I could understand casual sex then they could, too. But I don't, understand it."
Right. Because Laurell clearly only writes about nuanced, long-term relationships involving mutually consensual and caring sex. She would never, ever, ever write about being supernaturally forced to have sex, because that would be wrong. And she wuvs her characters so very, very much. Right?
"Your body and your mind are who you are. So, why would you share your body with someone who doesn't want your mind, too? If you can't talk to someone, and enjoy each other's company, then why have sex? Good sex, no, great sex, is about communication ..."
Yes. Because nothing says sexy like long-winded dialogues about
"Can you be yourself with someone you don't know? The answer for me has always been, no. But then, as more than one man over the years has said, "You're serious as a heart attack about everything." Damn straight."
They mean as painful as a heart attack, dear.
SOURCE: Happy Presidents Day
"It's taken me all day to get four pages. I listened to HAIRSPRAY, then switched to 1776."
Won't somebody open up the window? Too many flies. Too many flies. ... Um, yes. I can see how 1776 would remind her of Anita.
"It meant that Trinity was off school, and though I had help to take her to a movie, and other things, no one could help with the guilt. I'd hoped to finish my pages in the morning and then Jon and I could have taken her to the movie ourselves, but the morning was totally unproductive. Totally."
Sigh. For someone that constantly talks about being in charge, needing a break, and working so hard, you'd think she'd want to go to a movie with her family. Or that her guilt would be about people, rather than pages.
"My job is so hard to plan around. Some glorious days I get my pages done in two hours or less. Some days it takes six to eight hours to get the same number of pages."
OMG! Two to eight whole hours of work! In her own house! With a staff! However does she manage? What a tortured artiste! Call Amnesty International, RIGHT NOW!
"How do I plan around something that can vary that much?"
Set stable working hours? Create a plot outline and character information sheets, so you know what's happening next? Not write?
"Answer, you don't, you can't."
No. YOU can't.
"God, this was a slog of a day, like walking through thigh deep mud, but I did it. I have my pages, I have my progress, now I am out of here."
Such a martyr... from whom we can learn ever so much...
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