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Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1042
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 01:39 am: | 
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OK, I'm going to talk SERIOUSLY about books.
In fact----the writing of my new novel,
and the Bizarre process that
has happened with this book,
which is called
"The Sexy Part of the Bible".
First of all...it always astonishes me when other writers talk about writing 8 HOURS a day---and almost every single one of them (including ALL my idols) say that they HAVE TO WRITE "every day".
I'm not like that at all.
I write in spurts and I usually must VISUALLY IMAGINE the characters in my novels and what they do/feel......for WEEKS, even years or months.....before I finally attempt to committ them paper.
Whereas others have a "plot"---my books, in progress, are really IDEA driven, often with no real plot, but in the beginning of the book, I make it appear that there's a plot. And even beyond "Characterization" my books are IDEA driven...which is why I don't feel that I'm "channeling" spirits as so many people insist that I am. Or that I'm being "visited" by the ancestors.
I don't think so. It's just that I love them and respect them so much that people MISTAKE this for the ancestors actually being present themselves.
My new novel, however, doesn't really have too many ancestors as it's truly.....a HOLLYWOOD novel.
And here is where the great trouble has come in.
Because 4 months ago, I set out to write a rather "feministic" story about a young black Movie Critic in New York City. The basic idea of the storyline was for me to express "WHY"...why....it's only logical and better in this day and age that some women would find it BETTER....to become "whores" and have "multiple" boyfriends.
Now, of course---because it's a Kola Boof novel, you really don't know what the book is ABOUT until you've finished reading it, so what I just explained above was where I was going...what it was supposed to be about when I started.
Anyway. One thing I can't tolerate while writing a story....is being BORED. (At heart and mind, I'm really a filmmaker, which is why I have to SEE and act out much of the story---walk in the woods and feel it).
I was becoming BORED with the manuscript, but the hard thing is....how do I write about the benefits of a woman being a whore and make the story both believable and ACCEPTABLE to my audience---which is CONSERVATIVE Black American women, most of whom are Jesus loving Christians, etc. How do I get them to understand the IMPORTANCE of such a story and make them care about and like the character without CLICHE devices (such as making her Molested as a child, a "victim"--the usual cop-outs that I HATE about women's writing)?
Along the way....someone started a thread in the CULTURE room about these trifling Rich Black People novels of late....you know, the Hollywood trash books like BLING and the one by Spike Lee's wife.
I started to write one.
And then......because I wasn't bored writing a "trashy" novel.....I decided to write an ALTERNATIVE VERSION of the novel I'd been working on....
only in the 2nd version of "The Sexy Part of the Bible", my main character has a VERY controversial name and is a voluptuous Movie Star instead of a skinny glass-wearing film critic---she's a BLACK Marilyn Monroe...or as a major critic in the novel describes her--"the ORIGINAL Angelina Jolie".
And in the 2nd version of the novel, which quickly went from being written in a "trashy" style to being written in literary form---the book is no longer a character study about my ideas for ONE WOMAN....but is suddenly an ENSEMBLE novel about several very different people represent and flesh out a plethora of OTHER IDEAS, hardly any of which have to do with "sex".
So there is the dilemna. WHICH BOOK do I go forward with now that I've written a first draft of both? The movie critic or the movie star?
I can't merge the two women, because the truth is----they're both TOO BIG and their stories need a single book. I hate those 400 page books, so that's out.
In essence...the Movie Critic is ME at the stage in my life I'm at NOW......the Movie Star is ME when I was about 19. I just can't reconcile them to the same book.
So now, after having written two separate "makeshift-manuscripts" REPLETE with two different plots and two different characters in two different worlds with the same title: THE SEXY PART OF THE BIBLE...
I must now begin to actually write the BOOK itself.
And of course the WORSE AGONY for me when I'm writing a book....is the constant question in my head----"Will a publisher accept this?"-----"Will an editor let me explorer such and such subject?"-----"Will the editor let my characters speak freely"?----will I be censored, will all this hard work end up in a drawer unpublished, because the story "Disturbs" the upper class powers that be who RUN the publishing houses?
So the writing process, for ME...is really no fun at all right now.
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1153
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 10:02 am: |
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Kola:
It sounds like you have two books. Go forward first with the one you like the best and then move on to the second. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 2953
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 01:57 pm: |
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Kola,
I concur with Chris. You appear to have 2 books, not one. Thus you should pursue whatever route leads most expeditiously to publication.
But I find what you appear to be attempting to do interesting. Hmmmm? How indeed does one pen a victimless hooker heroine?
Before I offer some suggestion, I must say what I find that not clear is WHY you figure women should consider being ‘Ho’s.
What basic message about feminity/womanhood do you attempt to make
Moreover, you don’t really define ‘ho’ for your purposes.
Are referring specifically to a woman who sleeps with men SOLELY for cash? Or are you talking about women who sleep with assortment for assorted reasons other than though not excluding material gain?
Which ever of those you bade yea to should dictate who your protagonist is, why she is such and what she’s likely to become within your novel.
Now, I think you could pull off the hooker if you approach her in a number of different ways:
1) Via a sort of iconoclastic satire of the sexual quirks, hang-up and inadequacies of men. Cause what sistah wouldn’t enjoy laughing at some haughty brothahs who have been embarrassingly caught with his pants down?
2) You could make her some kind of clandestine operative, intrepid reporter, etc. who willingly trades punanny (much like how 007 swaps d@#$) to score tactical advantage and espionage from enemies of a position/cause she supports. (Annette Benning’s character in the recent “Under Siege” – with Denzel and Bruce Willis - engaged in a delightfully dicey bit of this with Arab terrorists.). I’m sure you could draw on your own experiences to bring authenticity/specificity to such a characterization.
3) Give your heroine dual personalities: One a staid housewife or single mother, the other one of the highest paid ho’s on the set. Initially, 'they' don't really knows anything about the other. But what we see is that in many ways the quality of life of the ho is superior to that of her traditional, moral doppelganger.
I understand those might not fully suit what you’re attempting to do. But at least they may help inspire/provoke some plot direction, character nuances and general themes/tone.
Whatever you do, I think the key to this working is if the ‘hooker’ is somewhat matter-of-fact about the cash/goods that are exchanged. Those are really just a means to a greater, more vital end. If the focus is less on the cash itself and more on her liberty and the power she wields over men, a LOT of sistahs will eat it up the daring tales of your heroic ho’ like a tasty pot of mustard/turnip greens.
Lastly, I think you may want to tweak your opinions of BW readers a tad. Because today’s hottest selling AA book genres are saucy Erotic and Street/Hood lit. Thus, perhaps the marketplace is better conditioned to tolerate what you have in mind than you know. |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1045
Registered: 02-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 02:46 pm: |
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NOWHERE did I mention prostitution, ABM. I'm not speaking of being paid to have sex with a man.
ABM---I'm suggesting that if women aren't being offered "LOVE and COMMITTMENT"---then perhaps they should consider having "multiple" boyfriends to achieve satisfaction and do so openly.
This is in rebuttal to the idea that women should accept polygamy. Bullshit.
It's easier AND BETTER to just have your life to yourself and have several boyfriends.
We keep being told that we're a failure if we don't "HAVE A MAN", get married and be "loved" by this one man. I say bullshit.
Why not have a "career" as the center of your life and have "assorted men" AS NEEDED.
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Babygirl
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Username: Babygirl
Post Number: 43
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 03:06 pm: |
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Kola, How do you rationalize a woman becoming a "whore" with "multiple" boyfriends, not being perceived as some semblance of prostitution? If there is any logic there whatsoever, then one would presume she is gaining something of value from doing so, because clearly to pass her body around from man to man isn't going to afford her an ounce of true "love" or "committment". But for her and the readers to think that for her to do so is of some value to her, then what is that value? What about a premise that having a career and NO man, most especially not a cheating, lying, pathetic excuse for a man who isn't worth the dirt he walks on "better" for a woman's mental and physical preservation? If it's "bullshit" for women to accept polygamy, then why should any woman think passing her own body around to satisfy some need not be as degrading?
I would have to think them "boyfriends" would have to be offering up a lot more than a few hours (and more like minutes) of sexual satisfaction for any female to believe they're getting something out of it, in which case, she has, to some degree, "prostituted" herself.
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Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1047
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 03:24 pm: |
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But BabyGirl---your whole response is a SEXIST one predicated on Judeo Christian "American" values.
OPTIONS....
MEN HAVE LIVED THIS WAY FOREVER!!!
And why is it "degrading" to have sex with more than one man? Why do you see sex as lurid and sinful?
Women's BODIES (by nature) love sex. Why can't women...at some point in their lives....enjoy the VARIETY of dicks, accents and cultural differences in lovemaking?
Why can't I have:
(a) an intellectual Professor for stimulating conversation
(b) a hardbody Construction worker who "hits it" to keep me lubricated on occasion
(c) a sexually curious Jewish BANKER to help keep the bills paid and keep me with spending change
(d) a nice ugly Baptist church guy to go fishing with and talk about spiritual matters and make love "TENDERLY" with in contrast to the hard banging my construction boy gives me?
MEN have always kept SEVERAL women to satisfy all their needs---why can't a woman do it without being assigned some MORAL title?
I think we women are EXTREMELY delusional about this word called "love"----this completely irrational notion about "romantic love" and monogamy. It's a bullshit pipe dream for HALF the female population. Classism and Colorism via Media designations DEFINE who can be "loved"---out in the open.
When I was in my 20's, I had MULTIPLE BOYFRIENDS and it worked fantastically!!!
I got plenty of sex....I always had dates/gifts/phone calls---too much attention....I had an OLDER businessman who paid my phone bill, car note, grocery bill....I had a College Professor boyfriend that I never had sex with---we just talked for HOURS and kicked it together, it was so intimate!!.....I had a black U.S. born soldier in Cairo who used to fuck me silly, and we ADORED each other, but that's all we had--fuck appointments...it was GREAT!!
I just think the society CONS women into not having OPTIONS.
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Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1048
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 03:31 pm: |
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And when I was going with these men, I made it clear up front: "I'm nobody's girlfriend...I'm free and so are you. I'm not looking for a relationship."
THIS...of course CHALLENGED them and they did everything I wanted in trying to "Conquer" me.
I delayed "putting out" for as long as possible, which only strengthened their interest in me.
Eventually--with ALL of them, I developed close "friendships" that made it all the more difficult for us not to continue seeing each other. THE PROBLEM (for them) was that I REFUSED to be in a committed relationship.
It wasn't until I met my children's father that somebody BROKE my resolve----Thomas was determined to OWN my heart and he succeeded.
But I really LOVED my love life before I became his "wife".
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Babygirl
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Username: Babygirl
Post Number: 46
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 04:34 pm: |
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Kola: When I was in my 20's, I had MULTIPLE BOYFRIENDS and it worked fantastically!!!
Babygirl: But did you consider yourself to be a "whore"? Perhaps its your use of that word that isn't sitting well with me. I liken "whore" with "prostitute" or cheap or tramp. To be thought of as a "whore" is itself "lurid and sinful".
As part of that "Judeo Christian "American" values" if more than one man is "hitting" it and paying the bills and covering the rent, then you're providing a sexual service for pay most especially if you're expected to provide that service or the rent and bills suddenly don't get paid or you're not getting that much needed attention. Can a woman get the intellectual conversation, spiritual talk, rent paid, and bills covered by a man and NOT be expected to let him hit it no matter how hard or tender he's giving it?
Men have lived this way forever because they have placed more value on their dicks and their own sexual satisfaction than on the women whose bodies it is they're using for that satisfaction.
I have no problems with sex. None at all. And I believe that women should be in full and total control of their sexual selves. I just don't know if it's realistic or plausible to see any woman who sleeps around so indiscriminantly, for whatever the reason, as a strong woman who doesn't have some self esteem issues.
I think they tried it with the character Samantha on Sex in the City and for me, she still came off like a cheap, trashy 'ho. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1157
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 04:35 pm: |
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Kola:
We're getting away from writing the book. |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1052
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 04:41 pm: |
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I delayed "putting out" for as long as possible, which only strengthened their interest in me.
Eventually--with ALL of them, I developed close "friendships" that made it all the more difficult for us not to continue seeing each other. THE PROBLEM (for them) was that I REFUSED to be in a committed relationship.
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I never ASKED or REQUIRED that these men give me money.
They just did. And I occasionally gave money to my two poor studs, as well. $20 to get a new tire or paid for the dinner I cooked or gave $10 for gas. But I gave money as well.
I would have KEPT each one of them WITHOUT getting any money---because like most women nowadays, I made my own money.
It wasn't until I had a "husband" that I was DEPENDENT on his income, as I am now.
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SAMANTHA
But are cheap trashy ho's REALLY cheap and trashy?
Or is that just how Male Religious Protocal teaches us to see them?????
Remember. It's the MEN who make the laws about what a "good, decent" woman is supposed to be-----not women.
In WOMEN ran cultures with women's religions...the women had MANY LOVERS and were not assigned a "MORAL" check mark as you just did Samantha.
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Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1053
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 04:43 pm: |
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Sorry, Chris.
You're right.
MY THINKING is that I will express what I'm saying here by having the "mother" of my Movie Star espouse this lifestyle I'm so eager to explore.
I'm also changing the TITLE now that I've decided to write the HOLLYWOOD novel.
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 2963
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 05:32 pm: |
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Kola,
By my recollection, a "whore" is someone who engages in sex expressly for material, usually cash, renumeration.
But I know we often use this word differently from it primary meaning. That's why I said early in my post that you must define the word before one can advise to how to pursue your goal.
Because having multiple lovers who provides money/gifts is one thing. But availing your self to ANY man who can meet the punanny rental charge is something different.
Now. The problem with women being as indescrimant about sex as men is pregnancy/childbirth (though also women are more inclined to receive STD than transmit them to men).
Men don't have that immediate concerns, thus can 'afford' to be a bit more cavalier about sex than women.
These are not differences of morality. There differences of biology.
And, perhaps because of biology, the mental/emotional character of a female is usually more focused one home/hearth versus several...MANY...delightful/dangerous encounters that men may enjoy.
I agree with you in principle that women should be free to be as acceptibly whorish as males. The problem is on balance you're going to pay a steeper price for such.
But now to the degree you're willing to risk enduring such, I say go-on-witcha-bad-self. |
Babygirl
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Username: Babygirl
Post Number: 49
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 05:41 pm: |
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Kola: But are cheap trashy ho's REALLY cheap and trashy? Or is that just how Male Religious Protocal teaches us to see them????? Remember. It's the MEN who make the laws about what a "good, decent" woman is supposed to be-----not women.
Babygirl: Now this was food for thought...
I imagine that if anyone can pull off a character who can turn the tide of my thinking that you may well be the one who can do so. I will be interested in seeing how you flesh her out... |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 2966
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 05:53 pm: |
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Kola,
I guess being "cheap and trashy" are relative terms. Cause you know the saying, "One person sugar can be another one's $#*+.
Babygirl: "I will be interested in seeing how you flesh her out..."
ABM: With "flesh" indeed being the operative word here. |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1056
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 06:11 pm: |
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Bullshit ABM.
We have the day-after pill, birth control pills, all kinds of vaginal protectants and we can have abortions.
It's EASY nowadays for women to fuck all they want to---if they're smart about how they do it.
The MAIN reason you see females running into trouble is because (a) they're emotional and delusional and CARELESS (b) they let men dictate their sex (c) they put LOVE before rational thinking.
It's easy for a woman to fuck to her heart's desire.
STDs are the main worry and we're no more succeptible than men are----we simply have bodies that carry disease much longer before alerting us that we're sick. In any case, this too can be averted with cautious, scientific planning.
I have NEVER had an STD and I would admit it if I had. I think you believe that.
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If a woman is intelligent and KNOWS men in a scientific sense, then she will do well...like I did.
Men can be played EASIER than hell, and will even agree to it, just as long as you make it clear that ALL THE BOYS are restricted to the same rules that he is----meaning, none is getting more than the other.
You don't HAVE TO BE a wife.
You can be "AUTONOMOUS" (which people call "a whore") and have a very happy life with your CAREER of your children as the center-piece.
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 2969
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 06:30 pm: |
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Kola,
None of that stuff is foolproof (toy's break) and they harmful side effects. So if they are misused or dangerous, it is the woman, not the man, who'll usually suffer most.
And how do you know women are not the way they are sans manly dictates?
It's a unique/special thing to be able to carry/nurse another human being. That breeds within someone different instincts from those of use who'll never be conferred that burden/blessing.
You can want a woman to be callous as a man all you want. But, by/large, yawl ain't built for that shit. Otherwise there would have been no need for Oprah.
Men were made to plant the seed, you were made to bear/nourish the flower.
And you REALLY need a refresher course on Sex Ed. if you don't believe that HIV/STD's are passed more quickly from man to woman than the reverse.
Some scientist have suggest that ratio of the difference in HIV disease transference to be as high as 100X. (Might THAT explain why non-IV using Black women have amongst the highest rates of HIV infection?)
Look. I think you have an interesting concept. I really do. That's why I tossed my ideas out there on it.
But come one now, the truth's the truth.
There's something called a penis. And there's something called a vagina. And twixt the two myriad differences lie. |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1059
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 06:36 pm: |
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But who said that a Whore can't be caring and nurturing and the BEST MOM?
You think a FLOWER can't get around the garden and ENJOY her life?
Or end up the best wife?
Who said anything about being CALLOUS like a man?
I was sweet sugar baby girl to my men.
What women don't have to be is emotional, delusional lovelorn doormats.
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 2974
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 10:36 pm: |
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Kola,
I've never said you CAN'T be any of what you describe. I said I think it only fair that women legally be allowed to behave as men.
But don't cry about it later when you can't have children because your reproductive system's been wrecked by abortions and morning after pills.
And, you know, men don't always get away with what they do. Whether it via bad health, child support enforcement, divorce, resentful wives/children, etc. our past has a way of catching up to us all. |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1064
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 10:54 pm: |
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Thank you KING OF THE BOARD, my bruvuh, ABM.
NOW all.
What about writing novels? The process?
Anyone have feedback on the writing process....QUESTIONS.....or advice?
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Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1065
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 10:54 pm: |
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I think Mahogany is writing a novel right now.
Mahogany, what's your experience with trying to get that done?
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Mahoganyanais
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Username: Mahoganyanais
Post Number: 491
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 11:21 pm: |
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Kola, the novel is tabled for the moment.
I'm mostly doing my columns, reviews, and other non-fiction work.
And when I do start fien'in' for fiction, I dig into one of my dozens of unfinished short stories...
But the novel will get done. I started it ages ago, and when I get back to it, it will get a major facelift.
My process is...scattered. There are whole chapters completed and others still in the "notes" stage. The next to last scene is done, but chapter 7 is not...that kind of thing.
Also, the "heart" of the story isn't as compelling to me as it once was, but I love the characters and the setting. So, I think I'll just make some new and more interesting trouble for them to get into.
The pacing is waaaaaaaaaaay too slow, I realize now. So I got to tighten things up.
Ultimately, I think the time away from it will be time well-spent. My writing has improved. I'm more confident, and I have a clearer sense of what needs mending.
I do need to set a deadline by which to return to it, and also one to finish it by. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1159
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 10:23 am: |
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Kola:
I can dig it. Run through it. Let the character speak through you.
Good. You got to let those characters walk around in the story a little bit. Tell it to you.
Carry on.
My take on the writing process? It is a mix of exquisite joy and ordeal. Make sure you eat right and excercise while you are doing it and limit your intake of intoxicants. It can get out of hand. |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1073
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 12:54 pm: |
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Hi Chris,
It's funny---I haven't had any alcohol lately, other than some wine on my date and a glass of rum when I was making rum glaze for a bread pudding.
But I have to say, some of my most inspired scenes have come into my mind while drunk on vodka.
I just don't have a taste for it right now. I was feeling sorry for myself because Tom-Trojan walked out on me.....so I went through a drinking spree.
Much the way I did back when ABM and I used to chat mostly via email and Tom-Trojan had left me back then, too, for a very short spell.
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 2986
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 01:00 pm: |
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Kola,
I think my prior posts have ALL included elements of issues you may want to consider as you script your "...it's only logical and better in this day and age that some women would find it BETTER....to become "whores" and have "multiple" boyfriends." that was included within your initial post.
I'll agree, again, with Chris that you have 2 books and should pursue matters along those lines, including expediating the completion of either which appears more complete and commerically viable.
Otherwise, I don't know if ANY of us can adequately advise YOU on WRITING itself. Your talents/methods/results appear to speak glowingly for themselves.
I don't know whether you do this, but I might advise you to read and observe media whose style/content differ greatly from what you usually produce/enjoy, if for no other reason, but to garner more empathy from broader perspectives. Because doing that will allow you to fashion more authentically diverse and informed characterizations and plotting. |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1076
Registered: 02-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 01:25 pm: |
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ABM....LOL
I read/observe ALL MEDIA, all Academia, Pop Culture, etc.
Which is often why my work becomes imbued with so many alternative viewpoints and responses-------
and don't forget, I have a passionate fan base who jump up and down crazy that someone actually risks doing what I do. Many of these people are Black Academics, politicians and Pop culture pundits.
But just so you'll know, it's my hope that this new book will be a Non-confrontational, non-controversial ENTERTAINING, WELL-WRITTEN and "imaginative" HOLLYWOOD novel, good and juicy and unforgettable. Of course, the lead character's NAME is what reminds you you're in TWIN PEAKS (LOL), Kola Boof land.
After the Dead-bolt controversy of "Diary of a Lost Girl"---a book so magnificent that some fear it may end my career---I feel that I need a nice, POP book to give people a "rest, break". My autobiography is REALLY heavy, as you can imagine---but fascinating.
And working on the Translation of my Arab novel "PURE NIGGER EVIL" was so depressing that I put that away and don't know WHEN it will be ready for U.S. release.
My best book, "The White Man's Mother" (about cloning in Africa) is too heavy to follow "Diary of a Lost Girl".
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In all honesty, looking back at Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison and Alice Walker's books---I don't think that my work is any more confrontational or black identified than their's was. I just think readers have a short memory---and more than that, have not actually READ my books, but are making assumptions based on the public views of Kola.
My books SEEM NEW, but I'm just an African version of those ANGRY classic black and feminist writers of the old days.
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 3007
Registered: 04-2004
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Kola,
I suspected as much as it seem quite evident in your works.
Really. I have no criticism of your writing. Heck. I can hardly imagine what such might be.
I do wish, though, you'd branch out into writing for plays, cinema and TV.
I know those are tuff to break into. But I can't help thinking you'd do FABULOUSLY well in those areas. PLUS, you'd make scads more money and garner a higher, broader platform to pursue your socio-cultural calling.
Not suggesting this would be your goal, but imagine what you could do if something you wrote won a Tony, Emmy or an Oscar. |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1106
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 05:24 pm: |
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ABM...
that's what I want too.
If only I can figure out how to do it.
I really want to produce and direct films.
I believe that I have a definite flair and of course I've mastered storytelling. I could make some beautiful, evocative films that people would respect.
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 3011
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 05:33 pm: |
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Kola,
Why don't you just crank out a few scripts on spec and deal'em out to foks. You're already in LALA Land. And with all the foks who're trynah make movies, you're bound to bump into somebody who'll dig your script.
To bad, though, you're not still in your indescriminant boning stage. Your chances for effectively dealing your script might be greatly improved. |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1108
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 05:56 pm: |
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Yeah.
I have gray hair and creaking bones now, ABM----and my titties are finally sagging. So playing Temptress Kola at the Front Office is out.
In my new video it looks as though my breasts have gotten HUGE, but in reality---they're "sagging", so they look almost twice as large than before (on the books) ---you may notice when I'm in the river scenes.
I really hate aging, although I was pleased with how I looked in the video.
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 3013
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 06:07 pm: |
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Kola,
Oh, quit your mopin'. You still got your share of bulls rounding your stables.
Still. Doesn't it suck when after you finally know what to do you no longer have the capacity to do it?
Man! If I knew then what I do now, I would have died a young but BLISSFULLY happy man. |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1113
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 06:20 pm: |
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You said it:
If I knew THEN...what I know now.
I'd be so much better off.
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