Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

I don't have anything to say other than it's been a rough week. I'm at the age where my childhood is dying off. I was not a huge Monkee fan but I was still very sad about Michael Nesmith and then I woke up to the news Anne Rice died

I'll be honest I had a complicated relationship with her fiction and her. In college I loved the first three of her vampire books and thought her erotica was ridiculous (I'm still not over the bound guy lifting a girl by his dick alone) I managed via some people I knew got invited to her infamous New Orleans Halloween parties but could never actually go.

By the time the early 90s rolled around I was getting a bit annoyed with her books. I remember in my senior year of medical school in an externship being at the temporary housing reading in the tub circling how many times she used the word preternatural. (it was insane). Eventually her shooting off her mouth about how she was too good to be edited nad the fact that she obviously wasn't (100 preternaturals later) sort of made me part ways

That said, she did have an impact on my writing style. I'm sad she's gone.

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Comments

[spikedluv]

Your relationship with the Anne Rice books reminds me of mine with Laurel K. Hamilton and her Anita Blake books.

[cornerofmadness]

Same here. Those became so unreadable for me when everyone suddenly had to love Anita (who was getting way violent even for MY tastes) Charlaine Harris same deal (and explained the why all the shifters had to sleep with Sukie was because of her fae blood...omg)

[aaronlisa]

I have had a love/hate relationship with Anne Rice's books over the years. For the most part I did enjoy her storytelling but I got fed up with the lack of editing. I was glad when she changed her stance about fanfiction and admitted that while she'd never be pro-fanfiction, she could accept fans who wanted to write it. I also had to admire her for being able to set terms like she did when it came to her writing. I mean she really did need an editor, even if it just to keep track of characters/events/etc in her series, but the fact that she could say "Nope, no thanks" and still be hugely successful as an author, especially when she was doing it.I also admire the fact that there is still interest in her writing even after people started to turn away from her writing. And I did admire the fact that despite the garbage that some fans gave her, she always remained very connected to her fans. I mean she used to have phone # listed in the phone book when she lived in New Orleans.

Sorry for the essay but as I said despite the problems I've had over the years with her writing, I have admired her for being to control her career as well as she did and for admitting that she was wrong about fanfiction and apologizing for how fierce she protected her characters.

[cornerofmadness]

yeah there is all that