tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21671128.post3184306244812624494..comments2024-01-19T13:24:15.734+00:00Comments on ::Acquired Taste: Tim Strettonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598897603628943741noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21671128.post-13420031339885273822010-05-05T08:04:33.252+01:002010-05-05T08:04:33.252+01:00Faye, I think if it occurs to you to ask the quest...Faye, I think if it occurs to you to ask the question, you're probably safe.<br /><br />Mitch, glad you enjoyed the book. I think you get a bit more latitude over feminine beauty in fantasy, and the set-up where the women are more sensitive and intelligent than the men is hard to botch.Tim Strettonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08598897603628943741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21671128.post-87720033963967783532010-05-04T23:53:02.428+01:002010-05-04T23:53:02.428+01:00Granted, most of the female protagonists in 'T...Granted, most of the female protagonists in 'The Last Free City' were of distinctive beauty and character. But it remains a fact, that most of them were also much more intelligent and sensitive than the male protagonists, especially this womanizing poet. And all of these ingredients added up to a highly entertaining, if not excellent novel.Mitchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21671128.post-11637364715552927822010-05-04T18:02:30.604+01:002010-05-04T18:02:30.604+01:00Have you seen this test?: http://www.ponylandpress...Have you seen this test?: http://www.ponylandpress.com/ms-test.html<br /><br />I've been worried about one of my WIP characters' Mary-Sue quotient as we do share a rather pervasive trait and I have a horror of creating author surrogates, but mercifully the test says she's still in non-Sue territory. It helps that she definitely is not all-conquering, all-admired and nobly empathic...Faye L. Boothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06962126539347817602noreply@blogger.com