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lkh_lashoutsDate: 2/25/06
Title:"Screw your courage to the sticking point, or something like that"
Link: http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/index.php/site/screw_your_courage_to_the_sticking_point_or_something_like_that/
LKH in italics. Yours truly in plain.
Part of me is wondering if just refusing to let anyone die is a betrayal of the plot and characters, or if the betrayal would be to let them die. Books ago I grew tired of death.
Y'know, I had a glimmer of hope there. It died a swift, ugly death as soon as "to let them die" came around, of course. Because, LKH, death is just, like, sooooooo unnatural that it would be a "betrayal". Oy.
And then the kicker: "Books ago I grew tired of death." Er... how? Yeah, okay, Anita and Edward kill a lot of useless people, but no major players have died since... well, since ever. Phillip [pp] and Robert [?] don't really qualify, IMO.
Merry and I both feel like we've had enough character growth for awhile. We'd like some simpler choices please.
It says enough on its own. I won't give it the dignity of a flogging.
Trinity has no idea that her mother is such a chicken shit about flying. I pretend good.
Grammar aside, this brings up a point I've been pondering for a while: Does she think her precious daughter doesn't know where her blog is?
It's not exactly hard to find. Her website is basically her name. Oooh, I'd never think to look for my famous author parent at a website where the domain is HER OWN FREAKIN' NAME! (Provided that I had a famous author parent.) C'mon, man. This is the age where people Google potential dates, employees/employers, even their friends.. Unless she's has inherited LKH's fear of technology, I'm sure Trinity has popped on the Internet at some point, and thought, "Hmmm. Let's Google mommy dearest!"—and then found the blog entries not only detailing Laurell's fear of flying ad nauseam, but all those gems where the gist was "Gee, it sure sucks that I have my daughter this weekend. I was really hoping to get laid."
Title:"Screw your courage to the sticking point, or something like that"
Link: http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/index.php/site/screw_your_courage_to_the_sticking_point_or_something_like_that/
LKH in italics. Yours truly in plain.
Part of me is wondering if just refusing to let anyone die is a betrayal of the plot and characters, or if the betrayal would be to let them die. Books ago I grew tired of death.
Y'know, I had a glimmer of hope there. It died a swift, ugly death as soon as "to let them die" came around, of course. Because, LKH, death is just, like, sooooooo unnatural that it would be a "betrayal". Oy.
And then the kicker: "Books ago I grew tired of death." Er... how? Yeah, okay, Anita and Edward kill a lot of useless people, but no major players have died since... well, since ever. Phillip [pp] and Robert [?] don't really qualify, IMO.
Merry and I both feel like we've had enough character growth for awhile. We'd like some simpler choices please.
It says enough on its own. I won't give it the dignity of a flogging.
Trinity has no idea that her mother is such a chicken shit about flying. I pretend good.
Grammar aside, this brings up a point I've been pondering for a while: Does she think her precious daughter doesn't know where her blog is?
It's not exactly hard to find. Her website is basically her name. Oooh, I'd never think to look for my famous author parent at a website where the domain is HER OWN FREAKIN' NAME! (Provided that I had a famous author parent.) C'mon, man. This is the age where people Google potential dates, employees/employers, even their friends.. Unless she's has inherited LKH's fear of technology, I'm sure Trinity has popped on the Internet at some point, and thought, "Hmmm. Let's Google mommy dearest!"—and then found the blog entries not only detailing Laurell's fear of flying ad nauseam, but all those gems where the gist was "Gee, it sure sucks that I have my daughter this weekend. I was really hoping to get laid."
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Date: 2006-02-26 03:08 pm (UTC)Hmmm... maybe she can just have them move away? Or have them do something interesting or productive with their lives. Say, for example, Jason could go to college instead of wasting his life dancing. Ooo, or maybe getting Nathaniel and the twins (er, Stephen and Gregory) some therapy for the abuse they suffered as children/on the streets/etc. Just a few ideas.
Psst, Laurel! Sex and death aren't the only ways to develop plot or character!
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Date: 2006-02-26 08:11 pm (UTC)Eeeeyeah.
I agree; Jason needs to get out of Anita's clutches and move on to college. God knows Jean-Claude could afford to pay his tuition.
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Date: 2006-02-28 03:20 am (UTC)I can't bring myself to ready anything beyond Cerulean Sins, so I asn't aware that maybe someone was having a normal life.
Everytime I open Incubus Dreams, thinking I might actually read it, I seem to open to the same page every time. Jean-Claude says something along the lines of "Nathaniel has been a bad kitty" and I have to put the book down and go wash my hands compulsively.
As for Jason, I don't think it would be so out of character for Jean-Claude to say to him "Jason, go apply to college. I'm paying." Of course, I never expected JC to say anything along the lines of "Nathaniel has been a bad kitty," so I could be wrong here.