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[lovedstrangely.livejournal.com]

"When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?"

but laurell...it's NOT NECESSARY. Most of it isn't, anyway.


I have....just....no more words.


she says the DUMBEST shit, man.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/laurell_k_hamilton.html

Comments

[kidkai.livejournal.com]

But it IS necessary in her books! Without the sex there would BE no plot!

[lovedstrangely.livejournal.com]

jury *agrees*

[mneiai.livejournal.com]

No, no, I think you've got it backwards. Without the sex, there WOULD be a plot. ^.^ Or, at least, she'd have to TRY for one.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

My first thought: "OMG! QUOTE ICONS!"

But...more for the mockability of it all rather than because they're cool quotes.

*needs a fandom icon, dammit*

[lovedstrangely.livejournal.com]

guh. please to make some icons from bad lady's words, yah?

[karaz.livejournal.com]

This quote was obviously said in a moment of sanity that has nothing to do with her reality:

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development.

[tsula.livejournal.com]

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

Maybe I'm just orally fixated.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.

*facepalm*
*giggles*
*headdesk*
*andrepeat*
*gratuitously*

[aerofish.livejournal.com]

I can be sparse and minimalistic when I want to be, or I can wrap the sensuality of the words across the paper.

*snicker*

Oh, LKH, thanks for the laugh!

[temperance22.livejournal.com]

She can wrap sensuality about herself...oh yeah...just like Anita had to be taught how to walk in pumps by a man, right?

[saadiira.livejournal.com]

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Hmm...aren't her vampires almost straight out of Bram Stoker at base? How about the fey? Such don't exist, but I bet she had to do some kind of research to have Seelie and Unseelie running about.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Sure could have fooled me with that write up we posted here the other day. That was a soap box and a half.

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself.
Laurell K. Hamilton

But where WILL she find someone who can write all about how her ex husband is such a meenie and how she's so lovely and everyone wants to do her? C'mon, where DO you find someone ELSE to write personal wish fullfillment sex for you?

My first book, Nightseer, was much more traditional fantasy, in the vein of Robert E. Howard meets Tolkien. It was meant to be the first of a series.
Laurell K. Hamilton

It was a complete D&D rip off with a little sex thrown in. What happened to not researching for fiction? Hmm. Yes, she later wrote D&D novels, Ravenloft specifically, but this was BEFORE that and the Star Trek one.

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write.
Laurell K. Hamilton

What happened to that quote about being professional, there? Besides, they aren't trying to mainstream ya, they're just trying to steer you back toward spelling, grammar, and a plot, I'd guess.

[delphinapterus.livejournal.com]

I love my fans, because they are such a wide demographic. They go from everything from teens to 50+. I have a wide romance following, and a wide following among people - especially men - who have a violent background, military or police or whatever.
Right, that's why critism is taken so well.

You know one of the rules about giving out background information on yourself that is supposed to be true is to make sure that the story fits together. In fact it applies to fictional characters too. However, LKH is always a special case, as exhibited by this:

Everyone is always wanting some horrible-or at least interesting-incident that pushed me into dark fantasy, but I think I just came this way.

So everything was fun and crumpets, but then it becomes tragic past, but only maybe?

I use to blame my family's penchant for macabre true stories and other real life tragedies for my dark turn of mind. Recently, I've had to rethink that.

[saadiira.livejournal.com]

She really does need to take better notes, doesn't she? LOL.

-Dira-

[delphinapterus.livejournal.com]

I find it odd that she has inconsistancies in her own personal history. Granted she, just like everyone else, in entitled to her privacy. However, she seems to have such an aversion to lying, even by omission, that I would have assumed that she would not make anything up about her past, and she would chose instead to just not talk about it.