tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post1699397222336572265..comments2024-03-22T05:18:29.555-04:00Comments on Romance Bandits: When Worlds Collide...Loucinda McGary aka Aunty Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02217492654108300014noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-25582505532259405332007-12-12T00:02:00.000-05:002007-12-12T00:02:00.000-05:00Oh man, the worlds collided, huh? I suppose that ...Oh man, the worlds collided, huh? I suppose that wasn't pretty at all. The non romance-dwellers just don't understand, and really it's their loss, isn't it?<BR/><BR/>That poor horrible woman--she'll never know what she's missing. ;)Alyssa Goodnighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12563271888054706202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-28527568844345757512007-12-11T23:44:00.000-05:002007-12-11T23:44:00.000-05:00P226, I can't imagine what you mean.Cassondra, ask...P226, I can't imagine what you mean.<BR/><BR/>Cassondra, ask Joanie T. She's the boss! But being nocturnal, will we see anything of you while we're there?Christine Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14260589566405262159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-24729505898276223932007-12-11T23:04:00.000-05:002007-12-11T23:04:00.000-05:00OOOOO.Joanie and Christine:Ireland.Can I go on thi...OOOOO.<BR/><BR/>Joanie and Christine:<BR/><BR/>Ireland.<BR/><BR/>Can I go on this trip?Cassondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420982030156788059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-76145673413874647512007-12-11T22:58:00.000-05:002007-12-11T22:58:00.000-05:00One track, but three rails.You guess the rails :)One track, but three rails.<BR/><BR/>You guess the rails :)p226https://www.blogger.com/profile/05502193525250005347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-83545001232499425012007-12-11T22:47:00.000-05:002007-12-11T22:47:00.000-05:00Ooh, Ireland! Is that an invitation? I'll join you...Ooh, Ireland! Is that an invitation? I'll join you for a pint of Guiness, my friend! As long as we can fit in a few stately homes on the way:)Christine Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14260589566405262159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-23721782509177052212007-12-11T22:46:00.000-05:002007-12-11T22:46:00.000-05:00Joanie T, I'm sorry about the negative comments yo...Joanie T, I'm sorry about the negative comments you've received. I think we all get them to some extent, but it still comes as a bit of a shock each time that people can be so rude.<BR/><BR/>Snorked about the stroking bit! Just when you think you've gone too far, some honest guy will let you in on the truth--they really do have one track minds.Christine Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14260589566405262159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-70768219183144903922007-12-11T22:44:00.000-05:002007-12-11T22:44:00.000-05:00ROTFLMAO, P226!Sure, uh,huh. I'll put it on my "li...ROTFLMAO, P226!<BR/><BR/>Sure, uh,huh. I'll put it on my "list". <BR/><BR/>ROTHFLMAO...<BR/><BR/>Ahem,<BR/><BR/>Well, Christine, you'd have to join me a bit west from England. Ireland is my true heart home and since next year is a "landmark" birthday for me (21, again)I'm leaning toward there...Joanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12566704374877697300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-53969760760683069172007-12-11T22:42:00.000-05:002007-12-11T22:42:00.000-05:00Hi Eric, thanks for dropping in! I think it's true...Hi Eric, thanks for dropping in! I think it's true that authors draw on their lives for inspiration but it's a much subtler phenomenon than simply taking a real life incident and writing about it. <BR/><BR/>It's more like an actor drawing on every experience and emotion to put into a character. They remember when they were sad and try to reproduce that emotion on the stage and screen. It could have been about a totally different event from the one in the movie, but they draw on that same emotion. I think that's what writers do, only we have many more characters to play. DOn't know if I'm expressing that correctly, maybe it's the subject for another blog. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for coming!Christine Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14260589566405262159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-33401802775697798322007-12-11T22:37:00.000-05:002007-12-11T22:37:00.000-05:00Hi Anna, thanks for the compliment. I was interest...Hi Anna, thanks for the compliment. I was interested, too! My mother is currently at my house, curling up with CTC, so thought you'd like to know before you see her again next week. Your worlds are about to collide once more:)Christine Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14260589566405262159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-27265497093966756522007-12-11T22:35:00.000-05:002007-12-11T22:35:00.000-05:00Hey, P226, I'm not joking about being terrified. I...Hey, P226, I'm not joking about being terrified. I feel like I'm being psychoanalysed!<BR/><BR/>And Joanie T is buying me an all-expenses paid trip to England with her first advance, aren't you Joanie T? Maybe she can buy your Porsche with the one after that.Christine Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14260589566405262159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-67805349953013248692007-12-11T21:52:00.000-05:002007-12-11T21:52:00.000-05:00Hey Joan, you can buy ME something with your first...Hey Joan, you can buy ME something with your first advance if you want. I've had my eye on this Porsche GT3........p226https://www.blogger.com/profile/05502193525250005347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-9993998322996582452007-12-11T21:29:00.000-05:002007-12-11T21:29:00.000-05:00Hey, Christine! Sorry to be late to the party...ag...Hey, Christine! Sorry to be late to the party...again.<BR/><BR/>I really have had few negative responses to my chosen career choice...people at work, my friends (my bro...he just thinks I'm gonna buy him something with my first advance, ha!). <BR/><BR/>Only two people have read the full manuscript of THE PATRICIAN'S DESIRE..a friend who is an avid reader and my orthopaedic surgeon. THAT was interesting to let him read what I'd written. <BR/><BR/>(One scene where the hero watches the heroine stroking her distraught aunt, the hero daydreams what it would be like if she stroked him. Dr. P. wrote "This is exactly what we'd think...men are pigs!" LOL.)<BR/><BR/>And p226...thanks so much for sharing your observation. (Between the lines: that's cool). We enjoy your friendship.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and Donna...is the GR wearing a leather tunic? Demetrius is missing one of his (not that I mind :-)Joanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12566704374877697300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-1991176633967897852007-12-11T20:55:00.000-05:002007-12-11T20:55:00.000-05:00Anna C, you've been had! How dare they not deliver...Anna C, you've been had! How dare they not deliver a Johnny Depp! What's the point of hanging out with pirates if they won't kidnap a celebrity for you?dogladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03392561174583932552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-64592871608319152552007-12-11T20:54:00.000-05:002007-12-11T20:54:00.000-05:00Here here, Eric!!Here here, Eric!!dogladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03392561174583932552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-50789622772592087672007-12-11T20:40:00.000-05:002007-12-11T20:40:00.000-05:00Christine, I’m quite sure eating corn flakes would...Christine, I’m quite sure eating corn flakes would be exiting with you explaining how it should be done.<BR/><BR/>Success at writing must be a curious achievement. Years of work on manuscripts while hiding in a cupboard, wishing it were lined in lead, fighting a feeling of being made of lead.<BR/><BR/>Then one-day lead turns to gold, you’re no longer a writer you’re an author. People, who’ve never seen you looking down, look up to find you.<BR/><BR/>It’s a problem; a princess knows who she is because she grew up in a castle. An author knows who she is because she grew up in a cupboard, when people who think they know you read what went on in the cupboard. They turn to their dairy for support than back at you and think. Your defence about fact and fiction just draws a smile and a wink.<BR/><BR/>The reward comes from a strange source, after exposing those who can’t accept your success or leave your success alone. You discover a few who haven’t changed. You also discover you have the same number of friends as always and you can see who they are.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Thank you, EricAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-44025259215618405102007-12-11T19:53:00.000-05:002007-12-11T19:53:00.000-05:00Christine, I loved the responses you got to your q...Christine, I loved the responses you got to your question here. Thanks for posting it. What a fantastic blog!<BR/><BR/>P226, we LOVE your different perspective, even if you don't read romance. As you say, intelligent people can converse without having to 100% agree on everything, can't they? Surely that's one of the definitions of civilization (sorry, I've been hanging out with pirates all day - I've started longing for civilization! Well, that's not true. The pirates were a heck of a lot of fun! But I went over there on the understanding I got a Johnny Depp to take home and, nuh, no JD do I see. I feel like I entered a Nigerian lottery!). <BR/><BR/>Anna, your story is a cautionary tale for all of us!Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-74592232741973282702007-12-11T19:26:00.000-05:002007-12-11T19:26:00.000-05:00Hahah, see Christine? There's a PERFECT example! ...Hahah, see Christine? There's a PERFECT example! What I read between your lines is a question. "Why would that be terrifying?" I realize you're joking, but the joke has some meaning behind it, however trivial. I could ask you to expound upon it, but naw. I don't really need for you to do so. <BR/><BR/>It goes back to perspective. <BR/><BR/>See, my response to someone saying what I did, that they're reading between the lines, would be "Dude, you're wasting your time. What you see is what you get. It's in black and white." You see the difference in perspective illustrated right there.<BR/><BR/>You guys are allowing me to see the world through different eyes. Your interests, your priorities, your general thought processes are so, incredibly different from mine. It's neat!p226https://www.blogger.com/profile/05502193525250005347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-8138642061195476802007-12-11T19:10:00.000-05:002007-12-11T19:10:00.000-05:00Hey, p226, we're happy to have you here, even if y...Hey, p226, we're happy to have you here, even if you are a COTOD! I must admit, I'm starting to feel terrified at what exactly you're reading between the lines!Christine Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14260589566405262159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-42819412039005695512007-12-11T19:03:00.000-05:002007-12-11T19:03:00.000-05:00Amy, thanks so much for the compliment--from you t...Amy, thanks so much for the compliment--from you that means a lot. Very wise advice about what to say to the sniggerers.<BR/><BR/>I've decided I have to ignore the Outer Darkness when I write because that's not who I'm writing for. Romance readers understand where these scenes come from and that they're not just there for gratuitous purposes. Sex is such an important part of a relationship, to me it's a case of justifying why you didn't write about it, rather than why you did if you're writing romance. Closing the bedroom door in can only be a choice you make out of a religious objection or the desire to censor yourself, or to please a market that doesn't want to read about sex in detail. Sex changes everything. And it's not just the fact the H/h had sex, it's the way they had it, what was said, how they treated one another. To me, skipping those scenes is like skipping the first time they meet or skipping the black moment. It leaves a gap in the story. So I'm not going to apologize for writing those scenes.Christine Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14260589566405262159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-77054003463882848382007-12-11T18:54:00.000-05:002007-12-11T18:54:00.000-05:00LOL, great story, Anna. Bad luck for not winning b...LOL, great story, Anna. Bad luck for not winning but at least you had the encouragement that you were in with a chance to win. I hope you kept the clipping. And at least you made it to the Caribbean anyway under your own steam:)Christine Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14260589566405262159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-78797850825599973262007-12-11T18:49:00.000-05:002007-12-11T18:49:00.000-05:00I've been pondering this post all day. And I've b...I've been pondering this post all day. And I've been pondering it because I so clearly understand the concept. Yet, with that crystal understanding of what you mean by this, I can't come up with a single instance of worlds colliding for me. It's not that I don't have different worlds, it's that they just don't collide. <BR/><BR/>As to cassondra's allusion to my conversion... I don't think that's happened. I'm not going to start reading romance. Sorry girls, I just don't find the genre interesting. But then I have odd literary tastes. Plus, what reading I have time for, tends to be nonfiction, and interactive reading on boards. I enjoy a good debate.<BR/><BR/>But there is some logic to explain my continued presence here. Writers, as a rule, tend to be articulate. People who are articulate, tend to be intelligent. Intelligent and articulate people generally have things to say. When intelligent and articulate people have things to say, it's a good idea to listen.<BR/><BR/>You guys talk about my addition of male perspective to your lair. Believe me, I'm getting far more of the other side of that coin than you're getting from me. There are lines to read in these blog entires and comments, and then there are volumes to read between them. It's like throwing a UV filter on a bright snow-pack. There's a lot of textural detail to see there that's just washed out by attrition. I'm learning things here. Nothing specific mind you, just... as you guys say... "perspective." And I find it fascinating.p226https://www.blogger.com/profile/05502193525250005347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-32452398716279367562007-12-11T18:36:00.000-05:002007-12-11T18:36:00.000-05:00Christine the sex scene in Scandals is fantastic -...Christine the sex scene in Scandals is fantastic - hot and passionate and really well done. Sex scenes are hard to write (a fact not universally acknowledged) so you should pat yourself on the back about that.<BR/><BR/>But what is it with grown adults who seem to act like little school boys furtively looking at pictures of naked women under their desks? Anyone who says anything to me about the heat in my sex scenes I have a very simple answer. <BR/>"Hello, I'm 37 with two children. I have sex. Get over it."<BR/>Then I go on to say that I write modern stories about modern relationships and the story is about the progression of the relationship - not the sex. <BR/><BR/>Jeez Louise. These people need to grow up.Amy Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12690419732247281048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-73240610724079280862007-12-11T17:32:00.000-05:002007-12-11T17:32:00.000-05:00Great post, Christine!Ah yes, two worlds colliding...Great post, Christine!<BR/><BR/>Ah yes, two worlds colliding. I know it well. Years ago, during my high-powered marketing executive days, I entered a Mills & Boon competition. It was only a couple of paragraphs and had to centre around the phone (no snickering). I didn't tell anyone about it, figuring I wouldn't get anywhere.<BR/><BR/>Imagine my surprise when my secretary told me that the local paper wanted to interview me about my romance story! I thought she'd found out and was taking the mickey, but it turned out to be true. My little story was one of the ones they were considering for the grand prize!<BR/><BR/>I did the interview and was gobsmacked when it appeared (complete with pic) as a double page spread in the Thursday paper (the best day for circulation). I got a bit of stick from the sales guys, but was amazed by how many of the factory workers came up to me in the canteen and were really cool about it.<BR/><BR/>There is a footnote to the story. I didn't win the prize. Someone locally read my story and, as the contest wasn't closed, decided to enter her own version. She won! (A Caribbean holiday!) Lesson learned - never allow them to print your story until the contest is closed!Anna Sugdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015356374453032571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-89683321201864676522007-12-11T16:23:00.000-05:002007-12-11T16:23:00.000-05:00Christie, I think that would be a good idea. Peopl...Christie, I think that would be a good idea. People can be so tactless when discussing a book. They don't realize they're talking about your baby:)Christine Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14260589566405262159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-30365184007411362292007-12-11T16:22:00.000-05:002007-12-11T16:22:00.000-05:00Hi Doglady, isn't Mrs B. fab? And I'm so glad you ...Hi Doglady, isn't Mrs B. fab? And I'm so glad you finally received your Scandal's Daughter copy. I hope you enjoy it.<BR/><BR/>Snorked about the real money, real job comment. And I think you're right, there was a little jealousy in her determination to put me down. I remember when I worked I used to envy people who had jobs that weren't so pressured, even though I enjoyed it most of the time. It was a dream to be a writer and I certainly think I traded up! That's why I was so bemused by her comment.<BR/><BR/>I hope you still use YOUR talent, Doglady. I'd love to be able to sing.Christine Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14260589566405262159noreply@blogger.com