Twice Over
By neilmc
Wed, 15 Sep 2004
- 990 reads
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Insert a
Heathcliff lookalike, and swathes of purple
prose
and pantyhose class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Describe the
city weather, put some flowers round the
room style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Make the hero smell of leather and the
girl wear French perfume class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Have him think
more than he ever says, and say more than he
does style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Turn the action slow and gentle in a
veiled soft-focus fuzz class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Stick some
padding fore and after, and describe just how they
meet style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Take the hooks down from the rafters,
sweep the dog turds from the
street style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Give them both a job in publishing, in
health care or in art class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">And show why
their first marriages were doomed right from the start style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Cut out the scary hairy bits, extend the
kissing scenes, class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Now you can sell
your story to the women's magazines!
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