Wow that last one was off the wall...

 

later ~ nick

Dan had to open up this blog entry quickly to find out why I kept chortling and laughing out loud...

Wow that last one was off the wall...

 

later ~ nick

not off the wall, just the simple truth. they should all be tipped.

Wow that last one was off the wall...

 

later ~ nick

not off the wall, just the simple truth. they should all be tipped.

 

I've always wanted to go cow tipping. I did a project on cow tipping once for a class. The problem I had was that the damn things would never sleep. They were always awake at like 3am so eventually I gave up.

Yesterday, someone wrote to tell me that he noticed my characters are always eating in my stories.

 

 

Always eating? I've never notice that. I mean, yeah there were a couple scene's in the Diner in DD, The cast of TLW seemed to be in the school lunchroom everyday, and the Moore family did eat dinner. Hmmm, maybe this someone just notices that the characters eat more then they have sex

 

Hmmm, maybe this someone just notices that the characters eat more then they have sex

 

that was funny

 

Always eating? I've never notice that. I mean, yeah there were a couple scene's in the Diner in DD, The cast of TLW seemed to be in the school lunchroom everyday, and the Moore family did eat dinner. Hmmm, maybe this someone just notices that the characters eat more then they have sex

 

 

Considering that you made a trivia question about what kind of food was brought to them in TLW

5) The first time Aiden and Owen studied at Shadow, what restaurant did Chris bring them food from?

seems like you are forgetting a few other times... and during the camping trip... and the telling of the previous camping trip... and all of the sausages and roast beef that was eaten in the Valentine's story... and the chocolate cupcake with green icing that starts off With Trust... not to mention a certain drink in Service...

 

Just means that Dom is good at portraying a full and varied life of all of his characters... esp the ones with four legs (who, BTW, never got any sex though there was some sex in that story).

 

Always eating? I've never notice that.

 

Marshmellows

 

 

Sharon

Well, also, eating is like sex in terms of what it does for stories (except there are some things sex can do that eating doesn't).

 

When characters in stories eat, there are a lot of little details you can put there to advance the story in various ways. Who do they eat with? or do they eat alone? And where? How do they eat -- in a hurry, savoring every bite, furtively, or ??? What does the taste of the food tell you about the characters, their situations, their state of mind? There's a lot of potential there.

 

Am I the only one old enough to have seen the movie "Tom Jones" at an impressionable age? (if you haven't seen it, do, and wait for the dinner scene. You'll know what I'm talking about)

Hello there, Dom!

 

While the eating habits of your characters sure are not among the first things that come to my mind, when I am discussing your work with a friend or try to win a new reader, I agree that they are part of what defines your personal style of writing such stories. And that is quite a good thing: Humans have a history for discussing important issues of their life while sharing a meal. Just think of a large family, united around one table for dinner, sharing the events of the day. Or high school students sitting in the cafeteria making plans for both their school and private life. So far I really enjoyed what you showed us during the moments when your characters had breakfast, lunch, dinner or just a little snack in between.

 

Personally, I really dislike it, when my heroes lack basic human needs, like eating, sleeping or going to the bathroom from time to time. You seem to have found a good ground in the middle, where those needs are visible within the context of your writing, yet they don

Are you going to tell us how the homophobe's ribs got broken?

Or are we going to all have to spin stories of our own as to how that happened and you didn't do it?

 

(I'm going for cow involvement, myself).

 

Phobic cow? What about phobic bulls?

 

That'd explain blinky milk too....

 

To carry the tangent further, a friend says that yes, there are homosexual horses and cows. No, I don't know whether to cheer or groan either. Put it in the "weird factoids" drawer.