Comments on: Four Letter Words

By: Susan Lyons

Susan Lyons — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:49:07 +0000

Yes, I agree about believability. (Look at Laura’s post, for example – isn’t she believable? [g])

It’s interesting because we’re often told that characters need to be “larger than life” and that women like alpha male heroes in books though they’d never marry them in real life. It’s quite the trick creating characters that are in some fashion larger than life, and yet believable!

By: Dina

Dina — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:31:10 +0000

Good point Estella, I want the characters to be believable.

By: Estella

Estella — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:17:57 +0000

If you were to censor your characters words, I don’t think the characters would be believable.

By: Laura Resnick

Laura Resnick — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:08:39 +0000

Well, in a perfect world–one where I ruled and no one ever contradicted me or violated my wishes–all emoticons would be BANNED.

So would the word “awesome.”

In my grandfmother’s perfect world, no one would ever use the word “mustard.” (No, I don’t know why. But she hated the word so much, despite being a consumer of mustard, that we always had to called it “The M” in her household.)

Laura Resnick