Posted by Jost on September 7, 2006, at 14:03:59
In reply to Re: {Pow!} Let's Make A Deal » Jost, posted by Poet on September 7, 2006, at 9:04:48
Although fiction doesn't have to be autobiographical.
But it could be dark, too.
Give me a few minutes and I'll re-work it. (Are we going for a popular, commercially-successful type of novel, or a more serious, "critically-successful" type?)
If I recall (dimly), I was thinking, the two posters on the message board would each be posting, using names of the other gender-- so the woman would be posting with a male name and and the man would be posting with a female name-- or we (or should I say, you) could do two women posting with men's names--but I thought maybe that wasn't so appealing, although it could have a cult (or more specialized) audience.
The question is how to interweave that with the RLives, so that they were posting about their actual lives, but somehow transposing the details--also what it's like to think of yourself as of a nother gender and how to present that-- but I mean not in a politically correct or stereotypical way-- which I wouldn't like and would be horribly formulaic-- but if you just went with it-
And I guess somehow they would meet and recognize something about one another-- could be gimmicky-- but if you didn't go with the gimmick, but just used it more seriously, it might (or might not) go somewhere.
I'm not sure.
I can come up with other ideas. Ihe dark thing is probably the most interesting-- but I didn't want to suggest that because it could be depressing, which would be counter-productive-- I think-- or could be. Not too dark, but darkish-- but I won't sign on to a super-dark ending, or a vague, ambiguous, who knows ending-- maybe a more Henry Jamesian ending (whatever that is...)
Jost
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