tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101458.post4244943781238702551..comments2024-02-16T15:14:36.719-06:00Comments on Wet Noodle Posse: Generating External Conflict -- Esri RoseMJFredrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06881706931355203700noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101458.post-39397402024833059932008-04-30T21:35:00.000-05:002008-04-30T21:35:00.000-05:00Doglady: WOW! Wow, wow! I WANT TO READ THAT BOOK!Doglady: WOW! Wow, wow! <BR/><BR/>I WANT TO READ THAT BOOK!Esri Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00912657945785764363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101458.post-69040643863529078822008-04-30T20:59:00.000-05:002008-04-30T20:59:00.000-05:00Great post, Esri. I will join the consensus. YOU n...Great post, Esri. I will join the consensus. YOU need to write this book! Can't wait for your book to come out!! <BR/><BR/>My secondary characters are real menaces to my hero and heroine as only friends and relatives can be. The heroine's best friend from childhood is now a viscount with a terrible reputation. He and she have been stealing horses from abusive owners. Now that she is a duchess her friend is unwilling to give her up as a sidekick and he tends to hint to her husband that there is more between him and the heroine than friendship. We have a horrible magistrate who is trying t bust the viscount and the heroine for stealing his horses. The heroine's sister is jealous because the heroine ended up married to the duke the sister jilted. Then the hero's best friend is (a) the worst gossip in England and (b) someone who loves to manipulate people into embarrassing the hell out of themselves. Add the hero's dead older brother who was gay (society never knew)a friend of the heroine and had a 14 year affair with his valet who now is the only person capable of giving everyone else intelligent advice on their love lives!<BR/><BR/>So. too many secondary characters, just enough?dogladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03392561174583932552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101458.post-43322239510250502122008-04-30T11:29:00.000-05:002008-04-30T11:29:00.000-05:00Esri, I want to read this as well! :) I know I'm g...Esri, I want to read this as well! :) I know I'm going to LOVE Bound to Love Her.<BR/><BR/>My secondary characters help tremendously. The hero's estranged best friend really forces him to come to grips with his whole past/present life issues. My heroine's father's secretive life is helpful, and her mother, a woman of questionable morals, livens things up nicely as well. <BR/><BR/>Mostly, I need my secondary characters and the temptations they provide in order for the h/h to grow. But during the Avon Fanlit contest I was told more than once that my secondary characters really overshadowed the main ones, so I try to keep an eye on that. :)Gillian Laynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15772849187702478349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101458.post-52452678636585748822008-04-30T11:12:00.000-05:002008-04-30T11:12:00.000-05:00You know, I LOVE historicals, and yet the idea of ...You know, I LOVE historicals, and yet the idea of doing all the research to write one intimidates the heck out of me. If this elf thing doesn't pan out, maybe I should look for a co-writer, huh?Esri Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00912657945785764363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101458.post-61558886034353643332008-04-30T11:08:00.000-05:002008-04-30T11:08:00.000-05:00Esri,I totally agree. Secondary characters can hel...Esri,<BR/>I totally agree. Secondary characters can help generate lots of external conflict. My question is when are you going to write this hypothetical historical? ;)Mo Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13644902211036445323noreply@blogger.com