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Monthly Archives: May 2011
give your hero autonomy, make a villain
This thought was groundbreaking stuff when I finally got there, so stick with me as I reason my way to it. A compelling criticism of the bodice-ripping sex-scenes of 80s romance novels is that women have no autonomy – and … Continue reading
Posted in on writing
Tagged autonomous characters, autonomy, Dave Meslin, heroes and villains, responsibility, TED, the antidote to antipathy
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reading like Sherlock Holmes
Considering that 80 percent of what I read is historical romance, it may sound a bit odd that I have no inclination whatsoever to read “historical fiction”. It really doesn’t appeal to me. Maybe because real historical figures, even re-imagined, … Continue reading
Posted in on writing, review
Tagged alexander the great, annabel lyon, aristotle, historical fiction, the golden mean, writing for readers
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I am too naive to be a writer
I’ve just spent way too much of my evening watching documentaries on the ABC. I feel…horrified. Like I was an innocent until now. I have just realised documentaries are a smoke screen – the dry, scientific “we don’t have a … Continue reading
my adoration of E M Forster has a new context
I just had quite a delicious, enlightening moment. My sister recently put out a call for book recommendations, “Beautiful novels, not too heavy”. People responded, to my mystification, with suggestions like White Oleander and Love in the Time of Cholera. … Continue reading
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Tagged book recommendations, e m forster, romance, romance hypothesis, room with a view
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no means yes: part I
I’ve just read the first two of Anne Stuart‘s House of Rohan trilogy, and it’s been a weird, tug-o-war experience. Her writing is compulsively readable. She writes destitution to perfection, and her heroes are tortured and depraved without us ever … Continue reading
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Tagged anne stuart, house of rohan trilogy, misogyny in romance, psychological thriller
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