A Very Naughty Girl Written in 1901 by prolific children’s writer L T Meade, this is a moralistic tale about an orphaned heiress who goes to live with her stiff English relatives and learns important life lessons about not lying and thinking of others and stuff. Nothing sexy happens anywhere. Unfortuantely due to some confusion…
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What’s in a name?
How important are character names in books? Sure, a name is often the first thing your readers will learn about a character but surely any name will end up fitting if you’ve written the character well enough. Like with real people. Unlike fictional people, real people don’t have proper personalities when they’re given names. Sometimes…
When Movie Posters Lie About Spanking
Yesterday I complained loud and long about John Wayne’s use of a coal shovel as a spanking implement in McLintock. And you know what? I’m clearly not the only person who doesn’t associate coal shovels with sexy, spanking action. Below is the original theatrical poster for McLintock. Notice anything missing? Here’s the same scene from…
Spanking in the Movies
I mentioned the other week how you really don’t get a lot of spankings in mainstream movie. It’s not like I expect there to be as much spanking on screen as there is, say, inside my head. That wouldn’t leave enough time for all the car chases and robot battles and stuff. Not surprisingly, I…
‘Safe and Tame’ Fifty Shades Movie
Yesterday, I speculated that next year’s Fifty Shades of Grey movie will concentrate less on sex and more on plot.Seems like I may have been bang on the money. If by plot you mean “making moon-eyes at each other, in between helicopter rides and job interviews”. Which sounds like a fair synopsis of the first…