I have complex feelings towards pants. I don't think it would be fair to say I hate them. More of a love/annoyed-because-they-don't-fit-right-anymore relationship.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
From Formspring: OMG! Your new photo is so hot! I want to see you naked!
Thank you, sir. I'm flattered...but I assure you, I'm not that attractive. It's mostly a series of light tricks and photo-shop mixed with a talented photographer, http://www.clovenlife.com/.
And you really don't want to see me naked. I don't even like seeing me naked. Just take my word for it.
And you really don't want to see me naked. I don't even like seeing me naked. Just take my word for it.
From Formspring: Don't you feel like Dragon books are an archaic medium? Wouldn't you instead want to make your main character/dragon a mysterious brooding sort who has shunned drinking human blood and has befriended an average, awkward girl?
You make a valid point. Vampires have only been around culturally for the last nine-hundred years or so, whereas stories about dragons predate pottery. So, comparatively, vampires are a fresher medium by about an eon.
Regardless, you are certainly correct: the love between an out-of-sorts teenage girl and a self-loathing vampire is an under-explored theme in contemporary literature. If only more people were willing to write vampire-in-love-with-teenager love stories...
But, I'm far from a trailblazer...so I think I'll just stick to the dragons, if for no other reason that the kick way more ass than vampires.
Also, there ARE vampires in my books...and not the cute, cuddly sparkle-motion vampires that seem to have become popular these days. The vamps in my books are criminals and monsters who prey on children. They are frightening and dangerous...but they tend to get smashed to pieces by the dragons or shot in the head a lot. Because, let's face it: dragon verses vampire = dragon wins. Verses thirty vampires...
Dragon wins.
Regardless, you are certainly correct: the love between an out-of-sorts teenage girl and a self-loathing vampire is an under-explored theme in contemporary literature. If only more people were willing to write vampire-in-love-with-teenager love stories...
But, I'm far from a trailblazer...so I think I'll just stick to the dragons, if for no other reason that the kick way more ass than vampires.
Also, there ARE vampires in my books...and not the cute, cuddly sparkle-motion vampires that seem to have become popular these days. The vamps in my books are criminals and monsters who prey on children. They are frightening and dangerous...but they tend to get smashed to pieces by the dragons or shot in the head a lot. Because, let's face it: dragon verses vampire = dragon wins. Verses thirty vampires...
Dragon wins.
--StP
PS: Thanks for the best question all month, Spearman
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Family update
For those of you who asked, my father-in-law is doing much better and should be home from the hospital soon--if not already.
Thank you everyone for your kind words, positive thoughts and prayer. I'm not a religious man, but my father-in-law is and I know he and my mother-in-law appreciate it. My wife and I appreciate it, too.
Thank you.
Thank you everyone for your kind words, positive thoughts and prayer. I'm not a religious man, but my father-in-law is and I know he and my mother-in-law appreciate it. My wife and I appreciate it, too.
Thank you.
From Formspring: What kind of software do you use to write?
Office Word 2007
. I've thought of switching to Open Office when I get a new laptop. We'll see.
. I've thought of switching to Open Office when I get a new laptop. We'll see.From Formspring: How organized is your approach towards writing? Do you use outlines or anything like that?
I write out notes for a book, but nothing too formal, like an outline. I do this a little more with Max's books than the Dragon's Blood Chronicles, since mysteries are a little more challenging to write (for me, at least) and it's difficult to keep track of when information is revealed.
I don't make myself a slave to an idea, though. Many of the books I've written veered so far from the outline that they became unrecognizable. For example, Max's books was originally going to be about a preacher who murdered a young girl who rebuked his sexual advances. The skinheads (and vampires) were going to be a subplot, but I liked the idea of vampire Neo-Nazi's as antagonists so much that I changed the whole book.
I do often make lists of character names and traits so I don't forget things, or contradict myself...especially with background characters. For example, I don't have to remind myself what color Meg's eyes are (green) because she's a main character and I talk about her a lot. But Max's girlfriend Sadie's teenage sister Porche is used so infrequently that I have to have notes just to remember how old she is and what she looks like, otherwise she'll wind up taller than Sadie with blue eyes in one book, then shorter than Sadie with brown eyes in the next. It's also handy to keep track of other minor character traits, less they be forgotten, like how old Meg was when her father died, what tattoo Yvonne has in the small of her back, and so on.
I do almost all of my writing on a computer, so I do my notes there, too. I have a folder on a jump-drive (backed up to another jump drive, my hard drive, and an online Norton 360 backup drive) called Writing. In the Writing folder, I have a different folder for each of my story branches: right now, that includes the Chronicles, Max's series, and a third series I'm in the process of planning right now. A couple of other folders are there as well, including one full of story fragments and idea, and another with Shadowrun stuff--that's the role playing game I play with this group of registered sex offenders I met online. Any notes I keep on a story or character I place in the same folder, so I know right where to find it.
I don't make myself a slave to an idea, though. Many of the books I've written veered so far from the outline that they became unrecognizable. For example, Max's books was originally going to be about a preacher who murdered a young girl who rebuked his sexual advances. The skinheads (and vampires) were going to be a subplot, but I liked the idea of vampire Neo-Nazi's as antagonists so much that I changed the whole book.
I do often make lists of character names and traits so I don't forget things, or contradict myself...especially with background characters. For example, I don't have to remind myself what color Meg's eyes are (green) because she's a main character and I talk about her a lot. But Max's girlfriend Sadie's teenage sister Porche is used so infrequently that I have to have notes just to remember how old she is and what she looks like, otherwise she'll wind up taller than Sadie with blue eyes in one book, then shorter than Sadie with brown eyes in the next. It's also handy to keep track of other minor character traits, less they be forgotten, like how old Meg was when her father died, what tattoo Yvonne has in the small of her back, and so on.
I do almost all of my writing on a computer, so I do my notes there, too. I have a folder on a jump-drive (backed up to another jump drive, my hard drive, and an online Norton 360 backup drive) called Writing. In the Writing folder, I have a different folder for each of my story branches: right now, that includes the Chronicles, Max's series, and a third series I'm in the process of planning right now. A couple of other folders are there as well, including one full of story fragments and idea, and another with Shadowrun stuff--that's the role playing game I play with this group of registered sex offenders I met online. Any notes I keep on a story or character I place in the same folder, so I know right where to find it.
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