Today’s video is a montage of gay movies set to “You Look So Fine” by Garbage. Some beautiful intimate moments (warning, there’s some skin).
I like sex scenes in movies where you can see so much more than the sex. When the emotions are visceral and raw, right there for us to see.
Films included are:
Ciao
Broken Hearts Club
Dog Tags
Patrick 1,5
Shock To The System
The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life Of Ethan Green
Third Man Out
Cheers,
Sloan Parker
Once a week I post about something I’m loving (tv, movies, books, art, photos, romances, authors, or anything else). So here is this week’s For the Love of…
Writers are usually very solitary people. We spend hours and hours in our own heads, playing with thoughts and images until we get a story poured out onto the “paper.” We spend a lot of time listening to made-up people. It’s rewarding and challenging, but it can also suck when you get stuck on something. Group brainstorming can help.
Last weekend I spent two days with a group of local writers. We rotated between individual writing time and group brainstorming. It was a rare chance for me to get input and story inspiration from others, as well as an opportunity to help brainstorm in other genres. It was a productive, fun weekend. The entire process helped me get a jump-start on some conflict ideas for my next book. (And let me just say, I’m so mean to my characters…it’s worth it though).
That’s the great thing about group brainstorming. No matter how many of the ideas I end up using, the entire process motivated me and also sparked my own ideas after I got home and my mind kept running through my story.
Thanks to my writing pals: Connie, Jennie, Lesly, Rita, and KateLynn. You guys rock!! I loved hearing about your stories. Best of luck on your writing!
Any other writers out there ever try group brainstorming, either online or in person? What process works for you?
I’d love to hear about it.
Sloan Parker
Here’s this week’s quote I love…
“Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you’re really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I’ve got a few missing. It’s ok though, because I’ve got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation…so when I meet someone who’s an 8-color type…I’m like, hey girl, magenta! and she’s like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and I’m like, no – I want magenta!”
– John Mayer (singer)
We should all have more colors in our lives.
Sloan Parker
I saw this video last week thanks to Michael’s Gay Thought. Great song. I love the lyrics.
Anne Feeney and Evan Greer – Been To Jail For Justice?
(video embedded below)
Have you been to jail for justice? I haven’t…yet.
Maybe it should go on my bucket list.
Sloan Parker
Once a week I post about something I’m loving (tv, movies, books, art, photos, romances, authors, or anything else). So here is this week’s For the Love of…
I love being a writer.
I love brainstorming new characters and figuring out what their story is and how to tell it.
I love the editing process, the layering of story and characterizations.
But some days being a writer just plain sucks.
It can be hard to work through the self-doubt, the frustrations with a project, with the characters, with holes in the plot.
This morning was one of those days for me. The conflict for Breathe is a difficult setup for a romance story (I never said I take the easy road). People tend to have rather surprised and skeptical reactions when they hear what I’m writing about, and that fosters some doubt about whether or not I’ve wasted the last seven months. Usually, I’m able to stomp on the doubt and crush the hell out of it.
Some days it takes a little more effort than that.
So this morning I re-read a few of my favorite scenes from Breathe. They helped to remind me why I’m telling this story, what I love about it, and how happy I am with the way it’s turned out. Breathe has become the story I envisioned it to be, and I’m excited to be getting near the end of the writing process. I’m doing a final polish this month, working out a few kinks before I submit it.
It felt odd to use my own writing to cheer myself up, but it worked and I’m back to editing for the rest of the day.
So yeah, I love being a writer again.