Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

Just a short one before the links. One something funny. If I believed in numbers as portents I might have to do something with this. Last night I had to tally my writing for the week, 7171 words. Today checking out of Kroger's my bill was 71.71

Okay now to the writerly ways. I've been thinking a bit about paranormal romances. I just picked up Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas which has a living man falling for a ghost. I've read Kim Fielding's Motel. Pool with a similar plot. I know I've read a few others.

Of course there is a problem with these. One of them being dead naturally. You're not going to resurrect (well maybe) the dead love interest. Does the living one die? Do they just carry on as they are?

Personally I've not written one, though way back in college I did have one something like that. I don't remember much other than it was in a haunted house and I typed it on an Apple IIe. Who knows, with my hoarding tendencies a hard copy might be around in a box...where it should stay.

Would you be interested in that sort of story? Have you written one? If so, how did you resolve the issue?

That's all I have today. Am exhausted (mostly because I tried to wash clothes but someone left their crap in the laundromat and I had only one machine. Also someone over there was showering in the men's room with the door open!)


Links from around the web

Writing Under Duress

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Getting Your Manuscript Ready For An Editor

Can You Rely On Amazon To Distribute Your Books This Holiday?

Plagiarism And The Indie Author

Writing Tip: Filtering Filter Words I'm HORRIBLE about this


And From Betty

here. 7 Considerations for Your Antagonist’s Motivations (Which Will Save You SOOO Much Trouble)


Are You Showing or Telling Your Internalization?

USING CHARACTER TRAITS TO PLOT YOUR BOOK

Back to Virtual School: 5 Tips For Productive Writing During This New Season

Creating a Bible for Characters and Screenwriting

Nine Options for High Stakes Conflicts Without Violence

PODCAST
290 – Authorial Endorsement and Messaging

Conflict Thesaurus Entry: Being Given an Ultimatum

Writers, Are You Struggling? It’s Time to Turn the Page

Tips for self-editing (This week in books)

Comments

[thenewbuzwuzz]

I read the line "a living man falling for a ghost" and immediately went, "AWW, THAT'S ADORABLE!" :D

They have a relationship without touching.

The living person dies and THEN THEY'RE GHOSTS TOGETHER AND DO GHOST THINGS

They can never be truly together and it's just bittersweet pining all the time, 24/7, until the living person eventually dies

RAISING THE DEAD \o/

The ghost, uhhhhhh... manages to get reincarnated into a new person, and then the living person has to wait for them to grow up, hello age difference, does the ghost keep their old memories? Could go either way.

[cornerofmadness]

hahahaha

that is an interesting way of looking how it goes.

I have seen that last suggestion of yours and it was creepy. I want to say it was a Nicole Kidman movie with her in love with a 10 year old boy because he was teh reincarnation

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Oh shit, that sounds unbelievably creepy

[cornerofmadness]

I didn't see it but yes it had to be. In fact I think there was a lot of controversy about the movie even being made

[sperrywink]

My only exp[erience with stories like that was the old TV show The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947).

I haven't thought of it in decades and am surprised I even remembered the name!

And I must admit while I remember enjoying the movie, I haven't felt inspired to read a similar story in my fandoms even when they exist (and they do), let alone in books.

[cornerofmadness]

I'd forgotten about The Ghost and MRs. Muir to be honest.

It's not my favorite trope and I don't think I've tried writing it much because it would be tough to pull off believably