Post by Tom on Nov 21, 2016 11:57:26 GMT -5
I have been reading these story sites for years and have run into several common themes or plot devices that authors have used to advance their story lines. I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank the Sanitaria Springs authors for avoiding some of these:
1. Money solves everything. Gay boy and/or his guardian inherits millions of dollars, or receives a multi-million-dollar payout from an insurance settlement, or in some other fashion becomes an instant millionaire. For the rest of the story, every problem is "solved" by throwing money at it. That may be a fine fantasy that most of us have, but it is hardly realistic. I much prefer reading how normal people with normal finances are trying to make their way.
2. Looks will get you anywhere. Many of these stories eventually build up an enormous cast of characters. Not every character needs to look like a model and be perfect. Not everyone has perfect eyesight and perfect teeth and perfect hearing and perfect skin and perfect . . .
3. Awesome abilities. They not only look perfect, but they are also at the top of the class academically, AND the star of every athletic event they try, AND award-winning singers/dancers/musicians/artists. Come on, there are not enough hours in the day to become that proficient in every single endeavor and still do everything else that the authors have them doing!
Thanks to the SS world authors for sharing a bunch of fairly ordinary guys with their realistic faults. I appreciate it!
1. Money solves everything. Gay boy and/or his guardian inherits millions of dollars, or receives a multi-million-dollar payout from an insurance settlement, or in some other fashion becomes an instant millionaire. For the rest of the story, every problem is "solved" by throwing money at it. That may be a fine fantasy that most of us have, but it is hardly realistic. I much prefer reading how normal people with normal finances are trying to make their way.
2. Looks will get you anywhere. Many of these stories eventually build up an enormous cast of characters. Not every character needs to look like a model and be perfect. Not everyone has perfect eyesight and perfect teeth and perfect hearing and perfect skin and perfect . . .
3. Awesome abilities. They not only look perfect, but they are also at the top of the class academically, AND the star of every athletic event they try, AND award-winning singers/dancers/musicians/artists. Come on, there are not enough hours in the day to become that proficient in every single endeavor and still do everything else that the authors have them doing!
Thanks to the SS world authors for sharing a bunch of fairly ordinary guys with their realistic faults. I appreciate it!
