Lois McMaster Bujold
Lots of tropes. I was thinking recently about how much I like the Smart Sidekick characters (infinitely more than jock heroes, ferex), although I'm not sure that's a trope, exactly. Smart heroes are good too, when one can get them. Well-done angsty backstories can lure me in (badly done ones, not so much), with characters eventually triumphing over same to earn their happy endings.
Also a sucker for hurt-comfort, which seems a very female taste. If anybody can explain this one... I can't, and I share it.
Guilty pleasures also change over time. At present, anime, manga, and fanfic seem to top the list. Selectively; I'm pretty picky, now I've completed the initial discovery/survey phase. Next year, who knows?
Ta, L.
Also a sucker for hurt-comfort, which seems a very female taste. If anybody can explain this one... I can't, and I share it.
Guilty pleasures also change over time. At present, anime, manga, and fanfic seem to top the list. Selectively; I'm pretty picky, now I've completed the initial discovery/survey phase. Next year, who knows?
Ta, L.
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Mary Bertke
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Recently reread both Capt V'sA and GJatRQ. Started speculating that the trip Miles went on just after meeting Tej may have been the trip in Cryoburn. However, that would put Aral's death somewhere very soon before/after the sinking of Impsec. So I tried using Helen's age, as stated in Cryoburn and GJ...and I don't think those work, either. In Cryoburn, Miles says the twins are 5; in GJ, they're 11. Help?
Bob
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
You've mentioned dealing with insomnia, do you ever write during that time? If so, have any memorable scenes or ideas come together as a result of your sleeplessness? Or is the causality the other way around? Can you not sleep sometimes because your mind is too busy trying to solve things to sleep? I'm betting on the latter because Miles.
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