2010-03-01

This leaves the final keyword(s): True Love Trilogy. I spent years pondering the question of whether love was even possible without lust.

2010-03-02

Touchy subject, so before I go on - to each their own. Deciphering this was critical to the story for differentiation & 'so what' purposes.

2010-03-03

Love, not cheapened by the animalistic emotion of itself, could only exist if it displaced the sanctioning god as the most powerful force.

2010-03-04

Removing the dominion of love from gods, hereinafter referred to as Ethereals, made possible the ascension of lower beings to their level.

2010-03-05

And vice versa. Being an Ethereal might not be all it was cracked up to be, but at least the burden of 'Ethereals = love' was lifted.

2010-03-06

With no middle-entities between the interface of love and lower beings, that purity of unfiltered, untainted energy became True Love.

2010-03-07

Describing True Love is no joke, so although I am a sucker for vanilla romance elements, mixing in D/s sensibilities really set SSC off.

2010-03-08

Wait..what?! He put vanilla and D/s in the same sentence with True Love?? The SSC trailer said 'greatest love story ever told', right? :)

2010-03-09

would have to imagine this was not the first time that both had been depicted at the same time within the context of a single relationship.

2010-03-10

For the proponents of each claiming to have the monopoly on True Love, I'd caution against arrogantly overlooking the merits of the other.

2010-03-11

That about does it for the SSC novels' keywords. The genre is up next, and an open debate exists as to why Romance was not also included.

2010-03-12

should take a step back. Action, Non-Science Fiction, and Ultra Violence were carefully chosen because of their associative literary depth.

2010-03-13

Perhaps I underestimated how strong the True Love angle actually was, but I was looking ahead to SSC4, SSC5, SSCx in coming up with genres.

2010-03-14

If the main character, Marileva, decided to take a novel off, I didn't want the entire premise of the series to be shattered in her absence.

2010-03-15

By using Romance as an element, I didn't cheapen its impact by treating it as a genre. That's how I wrote it. How it's read is the debate.

2010-03-16

While my peers were reading Encyclopedia Brown and Baby-sitter's Club, I was reading Don Pendleton's Executioner series for my book reports.

2010-03-17

loved the styling in Action writing which had long become his preferred genre. Everything written since the age of three veered that way.

2010-03-18

At its basest, component level of telling an exciting good versus evil story, the Action genre requires shades of gray in order to shine.

2010-03-19

These days, black & white perspectives insult intelligence. There needs to be something more than twists, turns, and subsequent responses.

2010-03-20

had a hard time reconciling the villain who did what they did because they saw themselves as evil. He knew conflict was not so cut and dry.

2010-03-21

Similarly, the antihero didn't fit because those questionable tactics might have been called for - not childishly unleashed as acting out.

2010-03-22

Make no mistake that the heroes were just as hungry as the quote/unquote villains. This killer instinct was what blurred any differences.

2010-03-23

Action, at its best, includes all parties at the top of their games. To the victor goes the distinction of being right as spoils of battle.

2010-03-24

The 'Science Fiction' part of Non-Science Fiction was covered at length earlier, but its nifty 'Non' component could use some explaining.

2010-03-25

The 'Non' part of Non-Science Fiction is a nod to the Choose Your Own Adventure second-person perspective with an interesting twist.

2010-03-26

SSC is told in third-person, omniscient perspective; and nowhere did it say I couldn't write myself into the story without changing my name.

2010-03-27

In pseudo-biographical fashion, I'm forced to write introspectively so that my character is true to himself/myself without the favoritism.

2010-03-28

tends to be a private person, so this was a way of putting himself out there - in grand fashion. It should be added SSC is his life's work.

2010-03-29

had often said, especially as of late, that all he really owned was a laptop and a fast car. His creativity belonged on the list as well.

2010-03-30

It was creativity honed from scratch like a home cooked meal - not so easily wholesaled. Feedback was welcomed, but criticism was ignored.

2010-03-31

Creativity provided a chance to be myself, so in that presentation, how could anything be wrong? We're not talking spelling errors here.