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novella

novella

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Is it my imagination, or is there a rash of stories here lately in which women are mutilated and murdered? I wonder why that is.

Do people sit down and say, well a good story needs two things: a mutilated body and a naked woman. Hey, I have an idea .. .
 
Kind of like "what would happen if Stephen King wrote for Penthouse Forum?"

:)

Larry inventories his postings: two pre-pubescent boys, a grade school girl, a wacko in a grocery store, the people in line, a drunkard, and one suicide of a young teenager. Nope, no naked women! (whew!)
 
It's not that I object to a little sex and violence in books. It just seems like this is the most cliche-ed idea on the planet.

Does anyone even want to read another scene where some buxom babe has her eyes gouged out and gets stabbed 60 times and is found lying in a pool of lowfat milk with Cheerios stuck in her ears? What's Plan B?
 
Which brings me to a question I have had for a long time...

Is there a "Plan B" that hasn't been tried?

Are there any more truly original plot ideas, or are we left with variations on a theme?
 
novella said:
It's not that I object to a little sex and violence in books. It just seems like this is the most cliche-ed idea on the planet.

Does anyone even want to read another scene where some buxom babe has her eyes gouged out and gets stabbed 60 times and is found lying in a pool of lowfat milk with Cheerios stuck in her ears? What's Plan B?
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i'm just jumping in here... and i think you're right, the only thing that's going around is naked woman and blood all over the damn place... why do they have to write about the same topics at the same time?

and as far as plan B reaches... i don't know, a lot of things were covered already... i mean the only things that are relatively new are the aspect of being gay and open to different forms of sexuality... and that just because it was OFF TOPIC for a very long time... :mad:
 
I, too, see a trend in brutality towards women in fiction (not just cliche violence, but sick, fucked up violence as novella mentioned above). Are these primarily male writers who are doing this?
 
i would say it is backlash, much like the fixation on amputees in the late 60's early 70's..thankfully that went away, perhaps this will as well
 
JRakovan said:
i would say it is backlash, much like the fixation on amputees in the late 60's early 70's..thankfully that went away, perhaps this will as well
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That is interesting... I didn't realize there was a fixation on amputees in the 60's & 70's. I am assuming that was from all of the Vietnam Veterans returning?

What would the brutality to women be a backlash of?
 
I am writing on a story which as a woman being killed in the beginning of it (I think you read that particular part). But it's not the theme of the entire story, and she wasn't naked either! Hm, I could make her into a man instead though, that would probably be more original? Perhaps.
 
novella said:
Is it my imagination, or is there a rash of stories here lately in which women are mutilated and murdered? I wonder why that is.
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You bring it on yourselves. :D
 
Stewart said:
Damn typing....what a way to get round the seen and not heard issue. :)
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I thought that was children. Isn't the chauvanist attitude supposed to be pregnant, barefoot and making pie?
 
Is this a bit of honeydevil horror I've missed out on? Have you gouged her eyes out yet?

Hey, HD, aren't you supposed to be in the old country by now?
 
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