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Aphrodite Pandemos By: Brian Webber on 9/12/2005; 3:29 PM The re-write is coming soon. I just need to get my damn cd-rw to work so I can transfer the file. In the interim, see the new message to "hear" the explantion of the new title.
RE: A Mile High Part One By: Brian Webber on 6/4/2001; 6:33 PM Now, maybe I didn't make myself clear earlier. I NEED HELP! WRITER'S BLOCK SUCKS! SUGGESTIONS DAMMIT, I NEED SUGGESTIONS!
RE: A Mile High Part One By: Evan on 6/5/2001; 9:51 AM The best thing to do when you have writers block is to stop writing for a little while and go do something else. Perhaps read something or watch a movie. Expose yourself to stuff in the world and hopefully some of that will give you inspirations. Of course if that doesn't work you could always try hallucinogenic mushrooms.
RE: A Mile High Part One By: Kaju Sarkar on 6/5/2001; 12:19 PM Brian, You could try to do what Evan said or you can start the next part off by writing that Richard thinks about Alicia all the time and you could incorprorate a little humour in the story saying how he messes up things while thinking about Alicia.So..Just think about it and I am sure you will come up with something.And I will tell you any suggestions I have in the meantime..Good luck.... Kaju the radical monkey...
RE: A Mile High Part One By: Kaju Sarkar on 6/5/2001; 12:26 PM By the way.., Why are any other people not helping Brian??I mean come on..this is ridiculous..We all can take advice but cannot give advice..What kind of attitude is that.??This is making me depressed...Kaju the Radical Monkey..
RE: A Mile High Part One By: Brian Webber on 6/5/2001; 8:03 PM I'm not sure that would work. What I'm basically trying to do is make a romantic comedy, for people who hate romantic comedies. Thsi ain't gonna have any of that tear-jerking Sleepless in Seattle crap in it.
RE: A Mile High Part One By: Evan on 6/5/2001; 8:49 PM Good for you, if you wrote anything sappy and romantic, I would have to make fun of it. I might not neccessarily let you know that I was making fun of it but I would be..... hmmmm some ideas are starting to percolate (or perkolate acck spelling). Of course I should probably admit I'm not reading it anyway because of your warning at the beginning of it. Right now I can't remember what the warning said but it made me decide not to read it. If it is a comedy I may read it anyway though if I'm sufficiently unoccupied which I almost certainly will be.
RE: A Mile High Part One By: Dorothy Marie on 6/7/2001; 1:43 AM Okay, Brian. If you still have writer's block, I only have a few suggestions for this. You started it off great. The whole seperation of worlds and bringing them slowly into one perspective is a great style. From here, there are two ultimate roads you can take: 1. happy ending where Richard and Alicia end up together and loose ends tie up, or 2. realistic ending where they end up apart. Think about where you want to go with this. Now, to clear that block from where you are right now, try physically splitting them up again. (Sidenote: I hate mushy romantic novels like Sleepless in Seattle. I like this.) See where your writing takes you there. Don't think about it, just let the personalities and lives of the characters run the picture. Try to bring that 17 year old niece back into play at some point, as well. Not this early in the story, but at some point nearing the end, if just for a second. She seems to have an interesting character and is the missing link in that initial hazy part dealing with the court. Her testimony on the gun is a MAJOR factor, so don't forget about that. For now, just let the story write itself. If that doesn't work, brainstorm for a bit on what I suggested. If THAT doesn't work, let my suggestions lead you to some of your own. Be your own critic and see where that takes you. Good luck and happy writing.
RE: A Mile High By: Brian Webber on 9/20/2001; 12:50 AM Hey Mark, WHY HASN'T THIS BEEN PUBLISHED YET?!?!?!?!?! For that matter, my D&D article hasn't been either. GET BACK ON THE BALL MAN!
RE: A Mile High By: Mark Morgan on 9/20/2001; 11:56 AM For the record, yelling at the publisher won't get you published any faster than if you don't. Slower, more likely. I had marked that big wave of short material for your journal, and now journals are moving (but you won't notice they've moved, Conversant rocks!) so things are behind. If you still want them published in the traditional manner, I can do that.
RE: A Mile High By: Brian Webber on 9/20/2001; 5:53 PM I unders tand this, but it does make me feel better. Anyhoo, the D&D article can HARDLY be considered short and journal material. And Mile High certianly belongs in Fiction.
RE: A Mile High By: Mark Morgan on 9/22/2001; 12:44 PM Yes, I looked at it again, and duh, they're both getting published. Won' t the world be a happier place when I don't have to ask if you want something published? Instead, there will be a little pulldown menu "do you want this published (yes/no)". Yes, the world will be a happier place.
RE: A Mile High By: Mark Morgan on 9/27/2001; 10:32 AM This has been published now.
RE: A Mile High By: Brian Webber on 4/11/2002; 3:56 PM This is about to receive another update. Little by little this is becoming a real story, and myabe, one day, a screenplay! I wodner if I could get Sela Ward to play Alicia.
RE: Romantic Comedy (formerly titled A Mile High) By: Brian Webber on 6/20/2003; 1:25 AM In case anyone is wondering where the title chnage came from, I'd like to thank the little idiots over at the Angry Naked Pat board. I'm not exactly sure what turned all of those people against me to the point where I had to run away from them to save my own self-esteem (not to mention my e-mail account), but this at least they got right. It's a broader title that'll appeal to more potential readers. I've also decided that I had the two leads sleep together too soon, so on my computer I'm introducing the character of Alicia's sister a bit earlier, adn I've also planted the seeds for a posible sub-plot of Richard ultiamtely facilitating a reunion for Alicia and Ashley. Unfortunately you won't see them beucase my Dad's HP won't recognize any text files of any kind from my non-HP (I actually have no idea what the hell it is. I know hopw to turn it on, but beyond that...).
RE: Aphrodite Pandemos By: Brian Webber on 9/12/2005; 3:31 PM Ladies & gentlemen, we have another new title! OK, so some time last year I asked for help on the View Askew message board with advice for re-titling this story. Well, I never got any help. But that's OK. I now have a new title for the tale of the college student and his twice-his-age lover, and I owe it all to the late Leo Tolstoy. The new title is Greek. Aphrodite Pandemos. Now, where did I get this you ask? I already told you. Tolstoy. OK, details; I'm reading Anna Karenina as I've made a point of reminding people constantly because I think they'll be impressed, and in it the character of Konstantin Levin mentions the "two loves" discussed by the participants in Plato's Symposium, which are typified by two aspects of the Goddess Aphrodite; earthly sensual love (Aphrodite Pandemos emphasis mine) and heavenly love free of sensual desire (Aphrodite Urania). The latter of course we now know as "platonic love." :-)
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