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Blake Greene's avatar

My current plan is to just go for it... wish me luck 😂 (also I love the name of this post)

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Wil Dalton's avatar

Good luck! To be honest, I’ve written plenty that I simply don’t share.

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Maegan Heil's avatar

Blake! I miss your stories! Hope you are well!

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Blake Greene's avatar

Thank you Maegan! I miss workshop with you and everyone. I took a break but I’m writing again, I’ll post something soon

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Meg Oolders's avatar

Go hard or go home, I say. 😉

Also, the reason that line works, from Stephen King or ANYONE, is because EVERYONE knows exactly what level of hard on he's talking about. It's less of an "ew gross, pervert" reaction and more of an "oh, yeah, been there" reaction. And I've never read anything by Stephen King, so I have no particular loyalty there. He's just a dude who's had his share of boners, right?

On the subject - I have an excellent YA novel to recommend: "I'll Give you the Sun" by Jandy Nelson. It's in dual POV of fraternal twins. The boy in it uses some powerful bonerisms throughout.

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Wil Dalton's avatar

Thanks for the rec!!!

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Wil Dalton's avatar

You know I’m raising fraternal twins? So, boners + sympathy = very intrigued

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Meg Oolders's avatar

It's a really good book. I picked it up to try to find a quote for you and I got sucked into the writing immediately. Really unique style. I suspect you'll dig it. I should read more of her stuff, too.

"Boners and Sympathy" would make a great series title. Or band name.

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Maegan Heil's avatar

pen name :)

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Maegan Heil's avatar

Kevin Sting

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Maegan Heil's avatar

Stephen King=

Keven Sting

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Wil Dalton's avatar

Aha!

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Wil Dalton's avatar

Dick Grover Bigg

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Wil Dalton's avatar

Or Eric Tpanis

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Wil Dalton's avatar

You know who has an awesome author name? Manly Wade Wellman

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Maegan Heil's avatar

I do like the name Manly. Maybe I will adopt that as my pen name.

Manly Heil

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Wil Dalton's avatar

As far as I known Manly Wellman was his real name. I should have named my son Studly Dude Studdude

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Maegan Heil's avatar

I was on a soccer then softball team with my bar friends back in the day and I went by Magnus for purposes of intimidation. 😂😂

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Nick Winney's avatar

im always really anxious about writing sex stuff...usually avoid it at all costs. If it's well written it can be beautiful and thought provoking.

And arousing.

And then at the other extreme there's 50 shades of nay...

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