Magodamilion with her first story here re-raised an interesting question I think merits discussion amongst us SS/BHM writers of realistic stories
http://www.dimensionsmagazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114685
Magodamilion writes: Many of the longer realistic settings pieces on here seem to deal with more of a meek insecure type of BHM so I wanted to try the opposite and see how it worked out.
.... and then in the second installment we find our BHM comtemplating his recent weight gain and it's social and professional consequences for him.
This is not meant critically at all - on the contrary. The scene is very convincingly written and chillingly realistic.
It only leads me to the question - is it possible to write a realistic SS/BHM character who has an unequivocally positive attitude to his size (baring alternate realities)? Who never has doubts about his weight - or the sense to need to compensate being fat one way or the other?
We can probably all agree that there is more scope, more options to the potential portrayal of SS/BHM leads - like crime fiction, thrillers, historical fiction etc. - that we see around here or in similar sites on the web.
But is there really the option of creating an authentic, plausible SS/BHM character who has no insecurities whatsoever about his weight, never tries to lose some or who questions his size or is minimum actively defiant of it -as long as we chose our world as the story setting?
http://www.dimensionsmagazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114685
Magodamilion writes: Many of the longer realistic settings pieces on here seem to deal with more of a meek insecure type of BHM so I wanted to try the opposite and see how it worked out.
.... and then in the second installment we find our BHM comtemplating his recent weight gain and it's social and professional consequences for him.
This is not meant critically at all - on the contrary. The scene is very convincingly written and chillingly realistic.
It only leads me to the question - is it possible to write a realistic SS/BHM character who has an unequivocally positive attitude to his size (baring alternate realities)? Who never has doubts about his weight - or the sense to need to compensate being fat one way or the other?
We can probably all agree that there is more scope, more options to the potential portrayal of SS/BHM leads - like crime fiction, thrillers, historical fiction etc. - that we see around here or in similar sites on the web.
But is there really the option of creating an authentic, plausible SS/BHM character who has no insecurities whatsoever about his weight, never tries to lose some or who questions his size or is minimum actively defiant of it -as long as we chose our world as the story setting?
