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I think you should just take your predicament and turn it into a book or movie script. Every time a story like that is done it seems to end up a hit.
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Where would the story go? Maybe one of the husbands begins to suspect, for some reason, that the author is really a man, and starts to pursue Dan?
Or maybe the husband somehow overhears part of the composition process, and thinks that Dan is writing love letters to his wife (and that she, in turn, is recycling them by modifying them and passing them along to him)?
Or you could go with a twist on the old Cyrano bit, and have Dan fall in love with the woman whose husband he is writing letters to.
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For it to work as a Hollywood script, we all have to be single.
She would have to be younger and cuter.
The writer would have to be younger, and secretly cuter but have that covered up with bad clothing choices and a thick glasses.
The boss, a sexist pig who loves to abuse his position (why else only 1 pathetic male allowed in his fiefdom full of cute hollywood females) is hot for the woman writer writes for. She turns him down cold, despite threats to her career. The writer would secretly have a crush on her too. The rest of the office staff would know this but the woman in question would not.
After some confusion due to a server/router problem where the boss recieves one of these e-mails, but thinks it came from his boss, an elderly, respectable woman.
Boss follows the instructions in the e-mail, getting himself embarrased and fired.
The woman gets his job, and proves to be a much better manager.
The writer quits, to take up a career as a romance writer, making a fortune.
The man the woman was writing too turns out to be be very macho-handsome, ends up on the cover of the writer's books. However, relying on his good looks alone, he is not very romantic.
The writer gets a make over by the rest of the girls in the office, and ends up marrying the woman in the cube next door.
The woman who leads the makeover takes over with the cute model/ex boyfriend.
The old boss ends up being Ms. Prim&Proper big bosses gigilo.
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Sorry. No posting of my naughty prose. I will not contribute to the delinquency of the minors present.
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You people are just so determined to turn my board into something I couldn't show my grandmother. It's a good thing that she's as computer-illiterate as she is.
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Oh, I do, I do. But I'm still laboring under the delusion that people will come solely on the basis of my coolness.
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And if dkw is signing off on it, you *know* it's a good idea. Post it Dan! Turn Sakeriver into the house of smut we all know Mike secretly wants it to be!
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I think you need to name the characters in your story skeleton. I got a little confused after a bit. I think the gayest thing I ever did was have that dream about Ian McKellan.
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I have meetings this afternoon and have to get some work done. I'll post one later (I havent done that many.)
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I think you should post it over at Tick's site gamesmaq. No one's posted over there in a long time. Imagine Tick's surprise when the first post in ages is a Letter to Penthouse.
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Yeah, you're gay dude. Give it up. Go get some tight pinstriped pants and bracelets and start accusing stright men of being afraid that THEY are gay too.
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Dan, your predicament could be much gayer. You could've opened your story with, "Well, it all started when I picked up two gallons of Vaseline..."
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you know... you really could make a living by writeing.
What do you think most romance novels are???
PORN FOR WOMEN!!
(not all, just most... take a look at one some time. Just make sure its not harliquine... thats the equivolent to... a sexy add or something, not the real thing .
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Is anyone else horribly tempted to bump that romance-novel thread about Hatrack that Ralphie did so well in?
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This is a hilarious situation. I keep thinking of Dan Raven as Santa Claus, too! That's just downright shocking! <laughs>
What if her husband finds out and decides it's really YOU he loves?
Or she starts calling you on your cell phone in the middle of the night and saying "quick, Dan, I'm at a loss, tell me what to do now!". <laughs>
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You are intrigued with writing prose that turns men on (apparently successfully).
You brag to others about your personal fashion selections.
Women seem to consider you their best friend.
If you are involved in a Platonic live-in relationship with a woman it is a complete picture.
If you can't be honest with yourself, we'll do it for you. Yes - you are gay.
Regardless - could you come by and help we with a wardrobe makeover? I can't seem to figure out if I am summer or spring and I have a heck of a time matching shirts to my eyes....
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Actually, I know of at least two science fiction authors who also write romance novels under female pseudonyms. I'd be surprised if it were uncommon.
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Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offenses of affections new...
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:::off-topic::: Bob_S -- are you on AIM or MSN right now? Not much seems to be going on, on the forum on this Saturday night.... wonder where everyone is? -- Farmgirl
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