tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217750984500164269.post4438632231602348205..comments2024-03-02T03:16:49.548-05:00Comments on Every little thing: The writing processAlison Piepmeierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17972854288403934814noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217750984500164269.post-42037164914620471622014-06-28T22:10:33.210-04:002014-06-28T22:10:33.210-04:00Wondering about similarities/differences between r...Wondering about similarities/differences between romance novels and "porn," both in film and text form...<br /><br />Has there been any feminist scholarship analyzing/deconstructing the genres?<br /><br />I had no idea that romance novels were overtly, graphically sexual, or celebratory of women's biological pleasures. Naïve assumption. Perhaps I didn't connect "romance" with "sex"!? Simply thought romance novels were genteel, superficial, suggestive at best. <br /><br />Could romance novels be understood as porn from a woman's perspective, depicting woman-directed, woman-centered sex, written for and by women?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217750984500164269.post-20633657022008891762014-06-24T09:47:44.644-04:002014-06-24T09:47:44.644-04:00Dear Alison,
I was wondering if you have read *The...Dear Alison,<br />I was wondering if you have read *The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks*. It goes in to a lot of these issues and is also a book for a mainstream audience.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217750984500164269.post-11084282357400536832014-06-20T09:23:17.241-04:002014-06-20T09:23:17.241-04:00We'll see how this all unfolds.We'll see how this all unfolds.Alison Piepmeierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17972854288403934814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217750984500164269.post-50928147388763364302014-06-20T09:23:01.962-04:002014-06-20T09:23:01.962-04:00Hurray!Hurray!Alison Piepmeierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17972854288403934814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217750984500164269.post-44745476177349345952014-06-20T09:22:50.587-04:002014-06-20T09:22:50.587-04:00I LOVE it! I read the teen version of the Harlequ...I LOVE it! I read the teen version of the Harlequins...I can't remember what they were called, but I loved them. And then I went through my mom's Bertrice Smalls books for the RAUNCHY, fantastic sex scenes.Alison Piepmeierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17972854288403934814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217750984500164269.post-66637836294711114752014-06-19T12:16:22.024-04:002014-06-19T12:16:22.024-04:00It's a privilege to hear you think out loud, A...It's a privilege to hear you think out loud, Alison. And now that I see the new descript in writing, I wanted to add the reason I think we all thought it sounded like a mainstream book is because you are clearly stating a problem, and offering a solution, in terms that go to our heart and not just our heads. Brava, and I look forward to more of these posts.Deborah Siegelhttp://www.deborahsiegelwrites.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217750984500164269.post-64533271683507051542014-06-19T01:52:45.029-04:002014-06-19T01:52:45.029-04:00Oh, as for your "real" writing -- bring ...Oh, as for your "real" writing -- bring it on. I have several people who I will send your way -- or this blog's way.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217750984500164269.post-82108159253029243642014-06-19T01:51:53.773-04:002014-06-19T01:51:53.773-04:00How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I have...How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.<br /><br />I have a confession to make. When I was in high school, I went through a period where I joined the Harlequin Romance Book Club and read, perhaps, hundreds of them. I was a book geek -- read all the classics, everything good and fine -- but I did love those bodice-rippers, adored the day the mailman brought me the box with about ten or so new ones packed inside. Lord, it makes my bosom shudder.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.com