Go to Paws and Pacifiers
- Add a comment
- Go to Where To Place It
Re:
Ooo! I'm going to look for it!
posted by
Sirenayla
on June 15, 2014 at 4:38 PM
| link to this | reply
Re MY Book. Yes it is on Kindle...It is called Tom Ugly by Helen Joan Vandepeer...that would be me in real life...and it is avaliable on Kindle.com.. Not a big book. Not expensive either.LOL.
An Australian historical fiction.
posted by
Kabu
on June 15, 2014 at 10:01 AM
| link to this | reply
Re:
Really? What's it about? You can just give me a one line summary if you like. I would purchase it, but unless it's in Kindle format, I won't be able to read it.
I do enjoy the darker and more edge-cutting stories, but I also absolutely adore fairies and dragons and sappy, typical romances.
Maddie's story is a tale I NEVER thought could come from me. I didn't think I was capable of writing something so psychologically messed up. But it's fun discovering what's coming next. I have my outline, but she deviates from it often. Now my goal is to write a story that isn't some cheap sexual fantasy, but that has a deeper, more intense focus on what this is doing to her mentally, what her brother can find out (if anything) about her captor, what her captor will tell her about himself, thus providing her with an attempt to understand. And she's going to realize that there's really nothing to understand. He didn't have a troubled childhood, wasn't beaten or raped, wasn't unappreciated or neglected--all the stuff stories use as excuses, all the things that are genuine explanations for real life crimes just don't fit here.
And I guess that's just my attempt to show people that it's not just the "mentally ill" who perform such attrocities. Even if, by performing them at all, perhaps some might argue that they must be mentally unstable. It's an interesting topic, but I won't try and explain it. Too many views on that.
Anyway, I'm rambling, but yes. Even with all the suffering out there, I had to write what came to me. Sometimes writing outside even our own comfort zones can produce something truly spectacular.
Tell me about your book! I'd love to learn more!
posted by
Sirenayla
on June 14, 2014 at 8:09 AM
| link to this | reply
My book I have just put on Amazon is the story that asked to be written and it is not what I am like at all for I usually write of Fairies.
posted by
Kabu
on June 13, 2014 at 4:18 PM
| link to this | reply
Re:
Thanks for your response.
I do agree that there is real suffering out there. It's part of why the darn thing wouldn't leave me alone. Because stuff like that happens, and a lot of the time, people don't want to look closer at it. Can't look closer at it. Need to pretend it doesn't exist. And victims don't want to relive such horrors in detail, which is completely understandable. It's their privacy. Their demons. But in doing so, it goes away for those of us who are not close to the situation.
After reading about such horrors, and with a few fictional stories that just scratched the surface, as if afraid to really delve deep, the idea simply came to me and would not let me go. So I started writing.
It certainly isn't for everyone, and I'm not convincing anyone to read it if it's posted. I just felt like explaining, since I fear writing a story may cause me to appear insensative to the women and girls who truly suffer such ordeals.
posted by
Sirenayla
on June 12, 2014 at 9:59 PM
| link to this | reply
I would wait and see what you get from this trial. I personally can't help you. I am not into such there is too much real situations that need a voice and help without a 'novel' or make believe horror of this type in my mind.
posted by
Justi
on June 12, 2014 at 9:34 PM
| link to this | reply