... Dill, when these move to publications, I'll include a warning for transgendered people. Worded right, it might make for a huge draw. . lol
It's great that you consider the discerning transgendered reader. Will you be issuing your warning when you are 'Col. John Drake' or when you are 'rhiannon,' or will it come from both?
Physeter macrocephalus, or cachalot...
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Sperm Whale
... males seem to like Jeb & Rhia: the Love Story, and females are more represented among reviewers in the New Fairy story.....
men like the sexy ingenue and women like the kick-ass adventurer.... what, if anything, should I do about that?
I'd say tone it down.
Given such a powerful and distinct contrast I'm wondering if it would it be dangerous for a transgender person to read these stories? I mean, given the different reactions between genders, it would at the very least cause the transgender reader to be at odds with her/his self. I'm wondering if intense reading could lead to a seizure; nervous breakdown or even spontaneous combustion?
Testicles
Indubitably! This wit acquiesces to your wit. To wit, barba non facit philosophum.
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Barba Tenus Sapientes?
“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” ―
Mary Anne Evans
Christmas
Doris Day
No change
Upgrade your genre!
Simply replace three or more of your words with eccentric thesaurus sourced replacements' and your work can be immediately reclassified as 'Literary Fiction'
Check, mate
Stalemate
Cowpat
"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm -- yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine."
A Room With A View
E.M. Forster
(Purposely) bad writing that is genius. The Bulwer-Lytton Prize
The Mushroom Men of Knarf were silently advancing on the unsuspecting earthlings, and their thin milky blood ran colder when they smelled spores from fungal toenail infections rising from many of the invaders’ feet, for to them it was a wondrous and shocking scent of kinship, homeland, and asexual reproduction.
hair
Blue Monday by Nicci French
Psychotherapist-Detective/thriller pulp and very good entertainment for the commute.
We have a clutch of current female writers who write historical fiction set mainly within the Tudor period. The main authors are Hilary Mantel, Elizabeth Fremantle, and of course, the most prolific, Phillipa Gregory. All superb writers. Mantel and Fremantle write in the 3rd person whilst Gregory tackles the subject in 1st person POV.
Correction. In 'The Girl in the Glass Tower' Elizabeth Fremantle writes the story from two protagonists POV. She writes one POV (that of Princess Arbella Stuart) in the 1st person and this is interleaved with the POV of Aemilia Lanyer which is written in the 3rd person.
Very effective technique and an enjoyable novel.
stiff
Original Sin
Shite Hawks
yodeler
ubi mel ibi apes
A fly in the ointment
...The molasses is on my face then...
A bee in your bonnet
