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will_couvillier) wrote2008-01-21 08:30 am
will_couvillier) wrote2008-01-21 08:30 am
Knowledge Base: Friends Edition
Having the day off I am in a writing mood, paticularily since my wife doe not share the holiday where she works. I hope to get a chunk of wordage completed on my WIP, and well as post a few things here and there.
So, my question is: is it an imposition to ask for advice often from a mutual friend list?
Nearly everyone on my list is a writer. A couple are from my primary on-line group, most are authors fom shared ToC, and a few are successful authors that I admire and read their blog because quite often they post really neat things about the craft. However, I hate to impose. That's what your regular crit group is for, right? Besides, if anyone is too busy then they are too busy.
I have a story I'm planning, but it will best need a mother's viewpoint. In my group there is only one woman (Hi, Kelly!), and although I treasure her advice, still a couple or more viewpoints would be best for a crit. A few of the lady authors on my Friend list have families, or so I gather from their blogs, but I hestitate to bother them. I was brought up that it is impolite to impose. So it's hard to just jump into something like that.
On the other side of it, anyone who has placed me on their list can ask me anything anytime. I can't guarantee a knowledgeable answer or even being able to reply very fast, but I'll help if I can all do so. So, on my side, if you found me interesting enough to friend then I'm touched.
That might not be the same for everyone though.
Anyway, back to the mundane life of being interrupted my by wife when she isn't even around, to have me run an errand. Ah, well.
So, my question is: is it an imposition to ask for advice often from a mutual friend list?
Nearly everyone on my list is a writer. A couple are from my primary on-line group, most are authors fom shared ToC, and a few are successful authors that I admire and read their blog because quite often they post really neat things about the craft. However, I hate to impose. That's what your regular crit group is for, right? Besides, if anyone is too busy then they are too busy.
I have a story I'm planning, but it will best need a mother's viewpoint. In my group there is only one woman (Hi, Kelly!), and although I treasure her advice, still a couple or more viewpoints would be best for a crit. A few of the lady authors on my Friend list have families, or so I gather from their blogs, but I hestitate to bother them. I was brought up that it is impolite to impose. So it's hard to just jump into something like that.
On the other side of it, anyone who has placed me on their list can ask me anything anytime. I can't guarantee a knowledgeable answer or even being able to reply very fast, but I'll help if I can all do so. So, on my side, if you found me interesting enough to friend then I'm touched.
That might not be the same for everyone though.
Anyway, back to the mundane life of being interrupted my by wife when she isn't even around, to have me run an errand. Ah, well.
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And thanks for the offer of help if needed!
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I just don't want it to turn out like one of the evening crime dramas in space, is all. I need realism.
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Sorry I can't help on the mother front.
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Hummm, so just how damaged would a female scientist's psyche get if she has a genetic disorder that makes 80% of any pregnancy miscarry? And the one child she is able to bear gets violently killed at 4 years old?
Enough to want to build herself a baby?
the human condition does make for interesting aberrations...
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I do firmly believe that a story is just a story (if it's done properly and isn't, you know, a sermon or something). Having said that, I might mention some might find offensive the idea that a female scientist was more prone somehow to being baby-crazy than a male one. The presupposition of feminine 'hysteria' is a little, erm, Victorian? But then again, so is the Frankenstein concept (though the actual book was written earlier -- Shelley was ahead of her time).
Seems to me the loss of a child would be tragedy enough for a person of any gender (including ones I haven't thought of). Just saying.
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Perhaps I'll make her him and make the guy in my current Luna project her. Be easier for me to write "babygirl" instead of "sweetheart", anyway, thinking about it.
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