I never willingly describe a character's physical appearance. The readers of my stories know exactly what each character looks like in their own mind. Anything else is either unnecessary or off-putting. I hate stories that start off with a paragraph about the principal's appearance that reads like a forensic pathologist's report (5'6",195 lbs, bald, blue eyes, 16" prick, 32yo, etc.). That said, when it is necessary to the plot I will give some details, but only when necessary. In my "Delights" series of a dozen novels, the main character, the Emir, is never described, and the only clue I give is that he is not as tall as his head bodyguard, but as Maktum is "almost seven feet tall" that isn't giving much away!
You are more likely to be killed in a domestic kitchen appliance incident than to win the UK national lottery if you buy one ticket for every draw.
Because it is me being unloaded from the Ffestiniog Railway. It tells people how old I am and that I won't suddenly appear on their doorstep out of the blue and that riding on trains is my second favourite pastime (and is more available and less effort than my favorite).
Breakfast time here - toast with lamb dripping generously spread on it.
I'll try to keep my 1/1/2000 resolution which was never to make any New Year's resolutions.
Job? Job? Oh yes, I remember, I had one of those back in the last century, but it took up too much of my time so I ¿retired? I think they call it and now I get a pension.
I know it has been a long time since this thread was live, but nobody pointed out the great problem with first person narratives.
In a third person "fly on the wall" composition there is no limit to what information can be passed to the reader. In first person only what that person actually knows, sees and experiences can be told.
"Is this love?" (s)he asked me. is fine but not (S)he was wondering if this were love. as the first person narrator can only guess at the other people's thoughts.
Similarly, the narrator needs to be told by a someone else what happened when (s)he was not there.
All my writings are in the third person because it allows me to relate activities which are forbidden in first person, such as events my hero(ine) did not witness and the feelings of other characters.
Thank you Bethany. That's what I thought from my own experience with my (serial) wives.
As an author, and reading lots of stories which mostly have detailed descriptions of the experience, I wonder:
When having bareback sex can you actually feel the semen being deposited inside you?
Yes. A friend's wife (at her instigation). Various holiday romances.
As someone once told me "Your writing is finished only when you are totally fed up with it."
I write fiction all under one pen name, but my non-fiction is technical and written under my 'real' name. The problem with that was persuading the bank to open an account under my pseudonym so that I could bank royalties separately from normal income.
Maybe this sounds paranoid but I save two copies on separate external drives attached to my own desktop, both password protected.
I wouldn't use the cloud, or any internet site's facilities for work in progress because you have NO guarantee that other people can't read your work. Furthermore you have no control (or even knowledge) over where any of that is stored as back-ups.
It isn't that I have had a bad experience, but until I retired my job was computer security, and I know how much power I had to access other people's work. I know that “XYZ Inc.” are a reputable company and only hire trusted people, but in my forensic work I saw so many crooks ...
Agree a safe word.
Then gag the slave.
Then say, "You can use the safe word any time you want me to stop."
You may notice that all the best insults in this clip do not include obscenities. See, for example, the lady starting at 1 minute 20 seconds into the play. I'm sorry I don't recognise her, but I am not a film buff, nor do I watch much US TV.
He was better than most of our weather people, and even included an ad lib joke or two.
"Sam - the ceiling needs painting."
