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RE: What makes a great story? - 4/5/2009 8:05:00 PM   
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The observer... back to basics: a character is what they look like, how they think, what they say, what they do. Most often, the best way to work these details into a story is to simply introduce them in the midst of some activity which they find challenging. I seem to recall a story by Pat Califia, which described a very small Domme having to stand on a box to kiss her girlfriend who was tied to a St. Andrews cross, and having to push her big round glasses out of the way to do it. You immediately got a sense that the woman was small physically, but that the effect she was having on her sub made her a giant.

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RE: What makes a great story? - 4/5/2009 11:25:34 PM   
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A good story, like a good song, needs a hook. Something to draw the reader in.

Any story can be good with the right hook.

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RE: What makes a great story? - 4/5/2009 11:36:54 PM   
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a protaginist i can relate to or an antaganist i can really hate are usually what get me drawn into a story

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RE: What makes a great story? - 4/5/2009 11:38:03 PM   
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back to basics: a character is what they look like, how they think, what they say, what they do. Most often, the best way to work these details into a story is to simply introduce them in the midst of some activity which they find challenging. I seem to recall a story by Pat Califia, which described a very small Domme having to stand on a box to kiss her girlfriend who was tied to a St. Andrews cross, and having to push her big round glasses out of the way to do it. You immediately got a sense that the woman was small physically, but that the effect she was having on her sub made her a giant.
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ORIGINAL: MarsBonfire

The observer... back to basics: a character is what they look like, how they think, what they say, what they do. Most often, the best way to work these details into a story is to simply introduce them in the midst of some activity which they find challenging. I seem to recall a story by Pat Califia, which described a very small Domme having to stand on a box to kiss her girlfriend who was tied to a St. Andrews cross, and having to push her big round glasses out of the way to do it. You immediately got a sense that the woman was small physically, but that the effect she was having on her sub made her a giant.


Thank you very much, your words actually helped me a lot. All the best!


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RE: What makes a great story? - 4/6/2009 9:51:37 AM   
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Great replies everyone.
 
Two of the all time classics that stand out to me are both set during wartime, Gone with the Wind and Casablanca.  The plots are complex, both have themes of love, divided loyalities and lurking danger, and the characters are unforgetable.  Both stories have some of the most memorable quotes and dialogues in the English language. 

A couple from Gone with the Wind -


Scarlett: Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.

Rhett Butler: With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Gerald O'Hara: It will come to you, this love of the land. There's no gettin' away from it if you're Irish.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/quotes

 
And from Casablanca -

Ilsa: I wasn't sure you were the same. Let's see, the last time we met...
Rick: Was La Belle Aurore.
Ilsa: How nice, you remembered. But of course, that was the day the Germans marched into Paris.
Rick: Not an easy day to forget.
Ilsa: No.
Rick: I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue.


Captain Renault: I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the Romantic in me.
Rick: It was a combination of all three.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/quotes


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