Comments for Wicked Writers http://wickedwriters.com Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:59:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on As Serious As I Get… by Thom http://wickedwriters.com/2010/09/01/as-serious-as-i-get/#comment-2467 Thom Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:59:36 +0000 http://wickedwriters.com/?p=3309#comment-2467 The magazine sounds great, Steve, but not myself nor anyone I know has ever head of it. Has it been advertised? The magazine sounds great, Steve, but not myself nor anyone I know has ever head of it. Has it been advertised?

]]> Comment on As Serious As I Get… by James Garcia Jr. http://wickedwriters.com/2010/09/01/as-serious-as-i-get/#comment-2466 James Garcia Jr. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:28:22 +0000 http://wickedwriters.com/?p=3309#comment-2466 Happy long weekend, my friend. Sorry I haven't answered your question, but the server was still down. Ha! Not really, just super busy. The second book just needs two very small research items to be double-checked and perhaps one final walk-through before being handed off to publisher. It has been safely sitting inside the proverbial can while I do PR this year. At some point this year I will have to clear my desk and begin writing book three. I like blogging too much, so perhaps I'll be forced to quit my day-job! ;) Happy long weekend, my friend. Sorry I haven’t answered your question, but the server was still down. Ha! Not really, just super busy.
The second book just needs two very small research items to be double-checked and perhaps one final walk-through before being handed off to publisher. It has been safely sitting inside the proverbial can while I do PR this year. At some point this year I will have to clear my desk and begin writing book three. I like blogging too much, so perhaps I’ll be forced to quit my day-job! ;)

]]> Comment on Size Matters & four other needs by James Garcia Jr. http://wickedwriters.com/2010/09/03/size-matters-four-other-needs/#comment-2465 James Garcia Jr. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:22:17 +0000 http://wickedwriters.com/?p=3328#comment-2465 Will do, J.D., and thanks for the comment. Will do, J.D., and thanks for the comment.

]]> Comment on Size Matters & four other needs by J.D. Brown http://wickedwriters.com/2010/09/03/size-matters-four-other-needs/#comment-2464 J.D. Brown Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:52:00 +0000 http://wickedwriters.com/?p=3328#comment-2464 Hey James, I keep copies of all my original works. I'm hoping after the cruise party around the Greek islands, I'll be popular enough to put all my 'deleted scenes' back in. Lol. I don't read horror or thriller - I get scarred too easily because my imagination is too vivid (this is coming from the girl who loved to go to haunted houses as a child). I do like watching the movies. The bloody ones make me laugh (because the blood is too fake and the acting is usually horrible), but it's the deep ones that make me think that I really like to watch. I agree with #4, not just for horror, but in all genres. Killing off a character just because you don't know what else to do with it shows. And makes the author seem like an amateur. Great post! See ya again in two weeks! Hey James,

I keep copies of all my original works. I’m hoping after the cruise party around the Greek islands, I’ll be popular enough to put all my ‘deleted scenes’ back in. Lol.

I don’t read horror or thriller – I get scarred too easily because my imagination is too vivid (this is coming from the girl who loved to go to haunted houses as a child). I do like watching the movies. The bloody ones make me laugh (because the blood is too fake and the acting is usually horrible), but it’s the deep ones that make me think that I really like to watch.

I agree with #4, not just for horror, but in all genres. Killing off a character just because you don’t know what else to do with it shows. And makes the author seem like an amateur.

Great post! See ya again in two weeks!

]]> Comment on As Serious As I Get… by J.D. Brown http://wickedwriters.com/2010/09/01/as-serious-as-i-get/#comment-2463 J.D. Brown Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:29:44 +0000 http://wickedwriters.com/?p=3309#comment-2463 Wow - I always like to read the comments before I post mine, but this is just ... so many. Excellent work, George. I'm outraged that the librarian said that! I'm also shocked that bookstores are lacking! Just yesterday I was looking through the schedule of a writing conference and remember thinking to myself "gosh, everyone wants romance/errotica/GLBT". It wasn't until I read this post that I realized you're right. Every time I see GLBT, it's coupled with romance/erotica publishers. No. Where. Else. <i>And</i> it's always online (epublishers). I really don't get it. In my opinion, labeling it GLBT as a sub-genre of romance/erotica is fine because ... well ... some people have that uh .. <i>intention</i> ... in mind when looking for an erotic novel. However, if you're just looking for a good Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Fiction, what the heck difference does the characters' sexual orientation make? I really see no reason to have to label it as GLBT if it's not romance/erotica. That's my two cents anyway. Great post :) Wow – I always like to read the comments before I post mine, but this is just … so many. Excellent work, George. I’m outraged that the librarian said that! I’m also shocked that bookstores are lacking! Just yesterday I was looking through the schedule of a writing conference and remember thinking to myself “gosh, everyone wants romance/errotica/GLBT”. It wasn’t until I read this post that I realized you’re right. Every time I see GLBT, it’s coupled with romance/erotica publishers. No. Where. Else. And it’s always online (epublishers).

I really don’t get it. In my opinion, labeling it GLBT as a sub-genre of romance/erotica is fine because … well … some people have that uh .. intention … in mind when looking for an erotic novel. However, if you’re just looking for a good Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Fiction, what the heck difference does the characters’ sexual orientation make? I really see no reason to have to label it as GLBT if it’s not romance/erotica.

That’s my two cents anyway. Great post :)

]]> Comment on Size Matters & four other needs by James Garcia Jr. http://wickedwriters.com/2010/09/03/size-matters-four-other-needs/#comment-2462 James Garcia Jr. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:58:34 +0000 http://wickedwriters.com/?p=3328#comment-2462 Thanks, David. You know I have a funny story on that. Or a stupid story, depending upon one's point of view. I had heard, as did everyone in the world, that there was a huge twist ending in the film. I, however, being so much more intelligent than most, was not going to be duped by this young writer/director. He wasn't going to get me with his little tricks. So, there I was in the final minutes of the film, needing desperately to get rid of all of the soda that I had been sucking down in the theater, hopping up and down in my seat, refusing to leave no matter how urgently I need to, because I wasn't going to fall for his trick. Duh! By then, I had already missed the trick, hadn't I. Bruce Willis had died in the first few minutes and I, along with everyone else, had missed it. "I see dead people," young Cole had told him. "They don't know they're dead." Thankfully, I did manage to get through those final minutes without having an accident, but it was pretty [censored] close! Lol! Thanks, David. You know I have a funny story on that. Or a stupid story, depending upon one’s point of view. I had heard, as did everyone in the world, that there was a huge twist ending in the film. I, however, being so much more intelligent than most, was not going to be duped by this young writer/director. He wasn’t going to get me with his little tricks. So, there I was in the final minutes of the film, needing desperately to get rid of all of the soda that I had been sucking down in the theater, hopping up and down in my seat, refusing to leave no matter how urgently I need to, because I wasn’t going to fall for his trick.
Duh!
By then, I had already missed the trick, hadn’t I. Bruce Willis had died in the first few minutes and I, along with everyone else, had missed it. “I see dead people,” young Cole had told him. “They don’t know they’re dead.”
Thankfully, I did manage to get through those final minutes without having an accident, but it was pretty [censored] close! Lol!

]]> Comment on Size Matters & four other needs by James Garcia Jr. http://wickedwriters.com/2010/09/03/size-matters-four-other-needs/#comment-2461 James Garcia Jr. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:49:36 +0000 http://wickedwriters.com/?p=3328#comment-2461 Hi, Sharon. Thanks for your comment. I actually started writing earlier in the week specifically on the horror genre, but realized that I couldn't do the post justice. I just don't experience the horror like I did as a teen. My family doesn't watch, so I have to barricade myself down in the basement...and I don't have one! Actually, anytime that I am watching something on the creepy side, as my wife might say, I have to take a laptop into the master bedroom and watch it over there. Coupling that with the fact that I have been unable to read as much as I would like, you can see my problem. That left me more in the thriller category. I have tons of experience with those. Hopefully the post will appeal to the masses. Now that I am assisting the talented and wonderful Marissa and Nicole over at their "Something Wicked This Way Comes" blog, I'm hoping to try a little harder to get back to the horror so that I might be able to review both print and film...as long as it is intelligent. As for the sex comments, I'll leave that to C.J. ;) Have a great long weekend, my friend. --Jimmy Hi, Sharon. Thanks for your comment. I actually started writing earlier in the week specifically on the horror genre, but realized that I couldn’t do the post justice. I just don’t experience the horror like I did as a teen. My family doesn’t watch, so I have to barricade myself down in the basement…and I don’t have one! Actually, anytime that I am watching something on the creepy side, as my wife might say, I have to take a laptop into the master bedroom and watch it over there. Coupling that with the fact that I have been unable to read as much as I would like, you can see my problem.
That left me more in the thriller category. I have tons of experience with those. Hopefully the post will appeal to the masses. Now that I am assisting the talented and wonderful Marissa and Nicole over at their “Something Wicked This Way Comes” blog, I’m hoping to try a little harder to get back to the horror so that I might be able to review both print and film…as long as it is intelligent.
As for the sex comments, I’ll leave that to C.J. ;)
Have a great long weekend, my friend.
–Jimmy

]]> Comment on As Serious As I Get… by Lee Rowan http://wickedwriters.com/2010/09/01/as-serious-as-i-get/#comment-2460 Lee Rowan Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:09:58 +0000 http://wickedwriters.com/?p=3309#comment-2460 <i>Last, I totally agree with you – I too, wish somebody who likes organizing to start a new conventional romance organization that is open minded, diversified and living in this century.</i> Well, there is the Romantic Novelists Association in the UK... Charlie Cochrane's a member and there wasn't so much as a lifted eyebrow at the meetings she's attended. If the RWA can have overseas members, I wonder if RNA would allow colonials in their ranks! http://www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org/index.php/awards/romantic_novel_of_the_year Last, I totally agree with you – I too, wish somebody who likes organizing to start a new conventional romance organization that is open minded, diversified and living in this century.

Well, there is the Romantic Novelists Association in the UK… Charlie Cochrane’s a member and there wasn’t so much as a lifted eyebrow at the meetings she’s attended. If the RWA can have overseas members, I wonder if RNA would allow colonials in their ranks!
http://www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org/index.php/awards/romantic_novel_of_the_year

]]> Comment on Size Matters & four other needs by David Sartof http://wickedwriters.com/2010/09/03/size-matters-four-other-needs/#comment-2459 David Sartof Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:56:20 +0000 http://wickedwriters.com/?p=3328#comment-2459 Hey, great post, James! I'm with you all the way on every single one of your points! To me they are truly cross-genre comments... I like the 6th Sense reference - I never saw the twist until the end of that film, it really had me! :) Hey, great post, James! I’m with you all the way on every single one of your points! To me they are truly cross-genre comments… I like the 6th Sense reference – I never saw the twist until the end of that film, it really had me! :)

]]> Comment on As Serious As I Get… by David Sartof http://wickedwriters.com/2010/09/01/as-serious-as-i-get/#comment-2458 David Sartof Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:40:24 +0000 http://wickedwriters.com/?p=3309#comment-2458 Hi George, I've said it before, and I'll say it again... This place is an education and you've delivered another great post in that spirit. Respect!! My own view is that a good story is a good story; and if that requires GLBT charaterisations, then so be it - stand proud. :) Hi George, I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again… This place is an education and you’ve delivered another great post in that spirit. Respect!! My own view is that a good story is a good story; and if that requires GLBT charaterisations, then so be it – stand proud. :)

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