Comments on: 17. Doing It Wrong

By: barry

barry — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:11:29 +0000

the other thought is that if a relationship is being represented, warts and all, by the purveyor of, well, whatever it is that Woody Allen purveys, then maybe that’s a sign that polyamory is finally breaking through to the mainstream?

By: maymay

maymay — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:19:24 +0000

Y’know, Barry has a point there.

I missed the opening credits of the movie so I wasn’t actually aware it was Woody Allen movie until the end, which probably explains half of why I was so annoyed.

By: barry

barry — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:07:03 +0000

You want a representation of a healthy relationship from Woody Allen?

By: Dr. Rose

Dr. Rose — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:57:21 +0000

Here’s my 2c, worth even less. I am published, if this is of interest.
Put these stories aside for a while. You can do *those*. The trick is elsewhere. So put those stories aside and write one out of your most painful place. Write a story that has no agenda, a story that doesn’t rely on coherent, rational, adjusted thought. Break through to the Eileen that wrote about her family’s rejection. Write out of *that*, or similar. Grab your voice, and never let it go. The shape of your stories will come to you.
I do apologize for barging in.
Rose

By: Tiger Spot

Tiger Spot — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:03:49 +0000

Another possibility would be for the drama to be about something other than the relationship. Perhaps something like Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man; the relationship is important to the story, but the plot is about solving a mystery.

By: SJ

SJ — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:16:10 +0000

Maybe if you wrote stories that were resolved by transiting from a traditional relationship to a non-traditional on? For example, Secretary, and Shortbus, though people are fucked in the head in both. A troubled marriage that is saved by both partners realizing they are submissive, and collared to the same owner? Maybe stories of transition between non-traditional relationships? A quad with problems that evolves into two stable triads, maybe?

I don’t know, that’s just the top of my head. I don’t think relationship troubles are limited to troubled relationships, and I think relationships can grow through their troubles. I have to believe there’s a way to write interesting stories about poly relationships, and kinky relationships, because I hear interesting gossip about them all the time. :-)

By: Terri

Terri — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:07:57 +0000

It’s Sacher Torte. It has chocolate cake and jam and just a teensy piece of heaven…

And if done right is so rich it qualifies as pure sin.

By: Neysa

Neysa — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:00:50 +0000

Oh, oh, I know, I know! Include some traditional relationships that are perhaps peripheral (or even essential) to the narrative, and let THOSE be the ones that end in fiery death and emotional meltdown!

Please excuse my id. It escapes now and then, and it can be a spiteful little beast, especially after spending a lot of time with the family over the holidays. . . .