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.It seemed intimidatingly big,though.With my writing schedule being what it was, I decided thatif I didn t make Magic Mansion my newsletter story, if I waited untilI had a few months to just focus on it, the darn thing would neverhappen at all.I d wait and wait and wait until one day the idea fadedand eventually disappeared.And so I took the plunge, wrote fourmore chapters to start with, and launched it.My first concern was the size of the cast.I needed to start withtwelve contestants.And then some of the contestants had characterswho went along with them, such as John s manager, his late partner&Ricardo s high school sweetheart& Sue s icky boyfriend.Plus, I neededsome people to represent the TV show itself.I chose to be very stylizedand minimal when it came to depicting the crew.Marlene, Iain andMonty are the name representatives of the show, and everyoneelse is known by their job, at least until John calls his stylist by hername to indicate that of course the crew is not a big, anonymousblob in the eyes of the players.Marlene and Iain are a mashup ofvarious job functions: producer, director, editor, props master.I knewit would be hard enough to keep twelve players and their adjunctsstraight without assigning additional characters to these crew roles,so Iain and Marlene do a little of everything.If I was to have twelve contestants, I realized that I would need tomake them all very different so that readers would be able to tell one436 from another.Faye was originally going to be blonde, for instance(I named her for Fay Wray) but I realized if readers thought of heras the blonde she d then get mixed up with Sue.So Faye got hertacky red dye-job.And from that dye job, her personality as a femaleperformer approaching middle age with a bit of panic and a lot ofintensity was born.Three tiers of ages are represented in the contestants: the twenty-somethings are Sue, Jia, Chip and Kevin.The thirty- to forty-somethingsare Faye, Charity, Ken, and Ricardo.And the fifty-and-up group is Bev,Muriel, Fabian and John.I really enjoyed having this diverse rangeof character ages to play with.Initial readers have remarked on theage difference between Ricardo and John being a potential turnoff&and if the age difference were a main plot point solely for the sakeof being a December/May romance, I guess I could see the potentialfor yuck. But it was never my intention for the age difference itselfto titillate for no particular reason.It was more about Ricardo beingstar-struck over meeting his idol, and having that idol in a positionto reciprocate.Giving the players different ethnic backgrounds was another easyway that I figured could quickly differentiate one from the other,but it seemed like a slippery slope.A story populated with a groupof stereotypes was definitely not what I wanted to end up with.Itis typical of reality shows to have a token few minority characters,though, so I went with it, figuring that I would just need to be veryaware of not writing cringeworthy stereotypes.The decision to make John Chamorro was based on his surnamerather than the desire to make him ethnic. I liked the ring ofTopasna for his family s original surname, researched it, and found itcame from a very specific place: Guam.From that particular, John swhole history unfolded in an unexpected and very rich way.437 Ultimately, the theme that emerged was being true to oneself inthe face of prejudice.John yearned to claim his ethnicity while hismother, who was spooked by 1940 s Japanese Internment Camps,struggled to homogenize him.Jia took up the mantle of Chineseconjuror because she figured if it was all she could aspire to, shecould at least ensure it was done with dignity.Ricardo walked theline of being out and proud without coming off as a parody of a nellyqueer.And they did this against the backdrop of a situation wherethey were being recorded, repackaged and disseminated for publicviewing, with no control over how they would be presented.At thestory s inception, I hadn t consciously put together the theme ofidentity versus the selective nature of media and viewer-manipulation,but I was delighted by the way the theme and the setting fed off oneanother so brilliantly.And then I could parallel those differences withTrue magic, and the way its presence or absence creates its own sortof us-versus-them dynamic.438 RECOMMENDED READSBody ArtDoes everyone have a certain type they end up with& whether theywant to or not? If Ray Carlucci s ex isanything to go by, Ray likes his mengorgeous, rebellious, and chock-full of issues.But now that Ray issingle again, he has a shot at afresh start a very fresh start, sincehis tattoo shop was gutted by repomen and his belongings can fit in thetrunk of a taxi.Ray s shiny new chauffeur s licenselands him a job as a driver for anelderly couple on Red Wing Island.It s a cold fall, and since theMichigan island is the summer home to snowbirds who fly south forthe winter, it s practically deserted save for Ray s new householdand a sculptor named Anton Kopec, who works day and nighttwisting brambles and twine into the distorted shapes of macabrecreatures.Compelling, bizarre, and somewhat disturbing& not justthe sculptures, but the artist, too.Ray has a feeling Anton is just his type [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.It seemed intimidatingly big,though.With my writing schedule being what it was, I decided thatif I didn t make Magic Mansion my newsletter story, if I waited untilI had a few months to just focus on it, the darn thing would neverhappen at all.I d wait and wait and wait until one day the idea fadedand eventually disappeared.And so I took the plunge, wrote fourmore chapters to start with, and launched it.My first concern was the size of the cast.I needed to start withtwelve contestants.And then some of the contestants had characterswho went along with them, such as John s manager, his late partner&Ricardo s high school sweetheart& Sue s icky boyfriend.Plus, I neededsome people to represent the TV show itself.I chose to be very stylizedand minimal when it came to depicting the crew.Marlene, Iain andMonty are the name representatives of the show, and everyoneelse is known by their job, at least until John calls his stylist by hername to indicate that of course the crew is not a big, anonymousblob in the eyes of the players.Marlene and Iain are a mashup ofvarious job functions: producer, director, editor, props master.I knewit would be hard enough to keep twelve players and their adjunctsstraight without assigning additional characters to these crew roles,so Iain and Marlene do a little of everything.If I was to have twelve contestants, I realized that I would need tomake them all very different so that readers would be able to tell one436 from another.Faye was originally going to be blonde, for instance(I named her for Fay Wray) but I realized if readers thought of heras the blonde she d then get mixed up with Sue.So Faye got hertacky red dye-job.And from that dye job, her personality as a femaleperformer approaching middle age with a bit of panic and a lot ofintensity was born.Three tiers of ages are represented in the contestants: the twenty-somethings are Sue, Jia, Chip and Kevin.The thirty- to forty-somethingsare Faye, Charity, Ken, and Ricardo.And the fifty-and-up group is Bev,Muriel, Fabian and John.I really enjoyed having this diverse rangeof character ages to play with.Initial readers have remarked on theage difference between Ricardo and John being a potential turnoff&and if the age difference were a main plot point solely for the sakeof being a December/May romance, I guess I could see the potentialfor yuck. But it was never my intention for the age difference itselfto titillate for no particular reason.It was more about Ricardo beingstar-struck over meeting his idol, and having that idol in a positionto reciprocate.Giving the players different ethnic backgrounds was another easyway that I figured could quickly differentiate one from the other,but it seemed like a slippery slope.A story populated with a groupof stereotypes was definitely not what I wanted to end up with.Itis typical of reality shows to have a token few minority characters,though, so I went with it, figuring that I would just need to be veryaware of not writing cringeworthy stereotypes.The decision to make John Chamorro was based on his surnamerather than the desire to make him ethnic. I liked the ring ofTopasna for his family s original surname, researched it, and found itcame from a very specific place: Guam.From that particular, John swhole history unfolded in an unexpected and very rich way.437 Ultimately, the theme that emerged was being true to oneself inthe face of prejudice.John yearned to claim his ethnicity while hismother, who was spooked by 1940 s Japanese Internment Camps,struggled to homogenize him.Jia took up the mantle of Chineseconjuror because she figured if it was all she could aspire to, shecould at least ensure it was done with dignity.Ricardo walked theline of being out and proud without coming off as a parody of a nellyqueer.And they did this against the backdrop of a situation wherethey were being recorded, repackaged and disseminated for publicviewing, with no control over how they would be presented.At thestory s inception, I hadn t consciously put together the theme ofidentity versus the selective nature of media and viewer-manipulation,but I was delighted by the way the theme and the setting fed off oneanother so brilliantly.And then I could parallel those differences withTrue magic, and the way its presence or absence creates its own sortof us-versus-them dynamic.438 RECOMMENDED READSBody ArtDoes everyone have a certain type they end up with& whether theywant to or not? If Ray Carlucci s ex isanything to go by, Ray likes his mengorgeous, rebellious, and chock-full of issues.But now that Ray issingle again, he has a shot at afresh start a very fresh start, sincehis tattoo shop was gutted by repomen and his belongings can fit in thetrunk of a taxi.Ray s shiny new chauffeur s licenselands him a job as a driver for anelderly couple on Red Wing Island.It s a cold fall, and since theMichigan island is the summer home to snowbirds who fly south forthe winter, it s practically deserted save for Ray s new householdand a sculptor named Anton Kopec, who works day and nighttwisting brambles and twine into the distorted shapes of macabrecreatures.Compelling, bizarre, and somewhat disturbing& not justthe sculptures, but the artist, too.Ray has a feeling Anton is just his type [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]