abbeyhunter replied to your post: abbeyhunter replied to your post: abbeyhunter…

I do limit myself.. if on purpose or habit I am not sure. Even when not reading cheesy romance, my main characters still tend to be female. Love reading, always open to suggestions. One can never read too many books. p.s how do you makes these posts?

Copy the reply from your dashboard.  Paste it into a text post.  It carries the links over and everything.  Quick and easy.  STILL not preferrable to actual threaded comments on your posts, but the best option we have.

abbeyhunter replied to your post: abbeyhunter replied to your post: I Am Considering…

Okay sorry, I misspoke when I said genre. Perhaps I should have said gender. I don’t think I really read much where the main character is male. Of course that is just me not everyone. Well could be interesting. I look forward to checking it out.

Then I would argue that you are limiting your own options, madam.  I read plenty of stuff with female protagonists, and male too, obviously.  I just like good stories.  The purpose of “Gripping Tales” would be to inject a bit of “manliness” back into genre fiction, not necessarily to exclude women.

I have a whole rant about “limiting” audiences versus actually “attracting” them and the dangers of the “all things to all people” philosophy that has made all of our cable tv stations look exactly the same, but that’s for another time.

abbeyhunter replied to your post: I Am Considering a New Blog

Mostly I am lazy when it comes to the internet, however, I will read if I am interested. Might I suggest not limiting your audience by limiting your genre?

Umm, genre fiction can mean crime stories, westerns, mysteries, science-fiction, horror, fantasy, superheroes, pulp adventure, sword-and-sorcery…it’s a pretty unlimited category.  The only limitation is the length and that the main character must be a man, because, you know, “Gripping Tales of MEN.”  Doesn’t mean that women can’t be characters, just that the main guy should be a guy.

It that’s too much of a limitation, my apologies.  But it’s actually pretty wide-open.

She Can Be Trusted

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I took my dog on a short walk earlier, just to see if she can manage off-leash.  She was surprisingly well-behaved, much more so than when I walk her on a leash.  I’ll try another on tomorrow.  If she impresses me with a longer excursion, I might be able to retire the leash altogether when we walk, which would be a great relief to both of us, I think.

Look at that girl.  She’s sweet, but she’s not exactly “refined”.  She needs to run free!

I Am Considering a New Blog

It would be a fiction blog.  It would be open for submissions.  It would be called “Gripping Tales of Men”.  It would publish short genre fiction of no more than 5 typewritten pages.

Would anybody be interested in that sort of thing?  Before you enthusiastically say, “Yes!” ask yourself: are you actually willing to sit down and spend 5 minutes reading a story on the Internet?  Because if I’ve learned anything from my years on the Internet, it’s that people who spend a lot of time here are lazier than the laziest cartoon mouse in Mexico.

tymethiefslongerthoughts replied to your post: A Single Man Recipe

You skipped the step where you get the brain freeze from pounding half frozen beer too fast… or does that only happen to me?

I get brain-freeze (and the dreaded heart-chill) within two minutes of the first sips of every Slurpee I’ve ever had in my life, but never from drinking frosty-cold beer.  I especially like it when the beer freezes to the inside of the mug and creates a layer of beer-ice.

ilikethecompany replied to your post: I Am a…

Haters gonna hate!! It’s not always gloomy…the Springs and Summer are fucking amazing. Did you know there is a lighthouse the allows regular people to be the inn keeper?! There is hiking and skiing and you are just a hop and skip to BC….

I am fully willing to admit that I never gave Seattle a chance.  I am also willing to give it another opportunity to impress me, especially now since the Starbucks culture is finally on the wane.