Writer's Journal: Slow week, as I was on the road this weekend. Currently drafting The Adjusters #25, even though I don't really have #23 and only parts of #24 written. But that's where the inspiration is drawing me, so who am I to argue?
A couple of stories have caught my eyes this last week, both on Storiesonline.
Written by POL, we have Of Drugs, Blackmail, and Seduction: "For monetary profit, an unscrupulous man uses any means to seduce and then sexually use the wife and daughter of a decent man." A nicely structured story, with a beginning, middle, and end, and a clear narrative line. And the blackmail in the story is somewhat more thought out than typical: none of that neighbor-finds-incriminating-evidence-and-turns-girl-into-a-slut clichés—not that there's anything wrong with clichés though if the resulting story's hot, in my somewhat myopic opinion!—but an actual plan to get a woman and have one's way with her.
Written by JRyter, we have The Apartment Manager: "Ethan Walker is hired to manage a multi-complex apartment group. His first day on the job, he discovers a secret surveilance system that not only spies on the tenants of all 240 apartments, all their activities are digitally recorded. Ethan becomes addicted to voyeurism. He's attracted to the woman who hired him and soon learns he's not alone in his desire to spy on others." A promising on-going story (currently two chapters out), one that I'm looking forward to see where it goes.
That's what I got for you. Anything interesting you've run across? Feel free to share below in the comments.
How about some non-fiction? "Sperm Wars" looks at sex, cheating etc. from the point of view of an evolutionary biologist. There are some incomplete copies of the book floating around on the net, google for spermwars.rar
ReplyDeleteBTW: The Adjusters is becoming predictable. I assume we'll see
- a chapter where Biff sends Daniel a DVD of Jenn entertaining a few well-hung blacks.
- Biff makes out with Jenn on the university campus, in front of Dan.
- Jenn gets married and is passed along among the wedding guests.
- Jenn escapes Biffs' clutches and asks Daniel to become her master.
- Daniel tries to fix up Jenn by removing all commands. However, he is unable to remove the "deep programming" commands, which are permanent.
- The additional commands which Biff inserted (Ch. 12, Biff ... grinned like a mean little kid) ensure Dan can't even ask Jenn to pass the table salt without her creaming her thong.
- Marital bliss ensues.
@ anon: your 2nd half sounds like a good post for the speculation thread....(after all that is the point of it)
ReplyDeleteNot sure if its predictable, but there has to be conclusions to some of the story arcs. We're currently in the middle of a story arc which is 2 fold.
1) jenn/serena getting adjusted and daniel getting enough spine to get them back
2) what is this company that is in the background (perhaps foreshadowed by the show kitten's den?)
@Anonymous — Oh yeah, I remember seeing an add for Sperm Wars. I'll keep an eye for it.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear you're finding the current arc predictable. I'll let future episodes settle how close your predictions are.
Although I have to add, "Jenn gets married and is passed along among the wedding guests": Yummy! I know it sounds awfully cliché, but wedding dresses I've always found incredibly sexy. So Jenn in one of those, maybe like this one — http://www.thebridalshop.com/divinasposa/images/donatello.jpg — semi-transparent in all the right places...