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Two entirely different subjects. Not doing very well on the money-saving front, as I've yet to even beat any bushes for freelance, just put a ticket to go visit with my mother and sister for a week in April on the credit card and succumbed to the need for a DVD player and put a very low-priced one which won't actually be available until late March on the same card... but the prospect of entering the DVD world is pretty fab. I can start collecting DVDs and getting rid of some of my 1001 video tapes.
And, from a 1960s aritcle in the American Heritage magazine, the rules for writing the
dime-novel hero (attributed to Richard K Fox, editor of the National Police Gazette from 1877 to 1922). They are re-phrased and commented upon in the words of Western historian and author Peter Lyon:
"1.The hero's accuracy with any weapon is prodigious.
2. He is a nonpareil of bravery and courage.
3. He is courteous to all women, regardless of rank, station, age or physical charm.
4. He is gentle, modest, and unassuming.
5. He is handsome, sometimes even pretty, so that he seems even feminine in appearance; but withal he is of course very masculine, and exceedingly attractive to women.
6. He is blue-eyed. His piercing blue eyes turn gray as steel when he is aroused; his associates would have been well advised to keep a color chart handy, so that they might have dived for a storm cellar when the blue turned to tattletale gray.
7. He was driven to a life of outlawry and crime by having quite properly defended a loved one from an intolerable affront-- with lethal consequences. Thereafter, however
8. He shields the widow and the orphan, robbing only the banker or railroad monopolist."
9. His death comes about by means of betrayal or treachery, but
10. It is rarely a conclusive death, since he keeps on bobbing up later on, in other places, for many years. It is, indeed, arguable whether he is dead yet."
This was posted on an M7 fanfiction list, where the poster also asked the question, is fanfic a modern version of the dime-store novel?
And, from a 1960s aritcle in the American Heritage magazine, the rules for writing the
dime-novel hero (attributed to Richard K Fox, editor of the National Police Gazette from 1877 to 1922). They are re-phrased and commented upon in the words of Western historian and author Peter Lyon:
"1.The hero's accuracy with any weapon is prodigious.
2. He is a nonpareil of bravery and courage.
3. He is courteous to all women, regardless of rank, station, age or physical charm.
4. He is gentle, modest, and unassuming.
5. He is handsome, sometimes even pretty, so that he seems even feminine in appearance; but withal he is of course very masculine, and exceedingly attractive to women.
6. He is blue-eyed. His piercing blue eyes turn gray as steel when he is aroused; his associates would have been well advised to keep a color chart handy, so that they might have dived for a storm cellar when the blue turned to tattletale gray.
7. He was driven to a life of outlawry and crime by having quite properly defended a loved one from an intolerable affront-- with lethal consequences. Thereafter, however
8. He shields the widow and the orphan, robbing only the banker or railroad monopolist."
9. His death comes about by means of betrayal or treachery, but
10. It is rarely a conclusive death, since he keeps on bobbing up later on, in other places, for many years. It is, indeed, arguable whether he is dead yet."
This was posted on an M7 fanfiction list, where the poster also asked the question, is fanfic a modern version of the dime-store novel?
