{"id":14683,"date":"2016-02-26T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=14683"},"modified":"2016-02-26T06:24:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T14:24:54","slug":"writing-not-david-strom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/26\/writing-not-david-strom\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing What I Am Not by David Strom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"https:\/\/davemstrom.wordpress.com alignleft wp-image-14686\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Holly-Hansson-238-pixels-art-credit-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Holly Hansson 238 pixels art credit\" width=\"200\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Holly-Hansson-238-pixels-art-credit-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Holly-Hansson-238-pixels-art-credit.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Welcome to our guest columnist, <a href=\"https:\/\/davemstrom.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">David Strom<\/a>. \u00a0An author who puts funny into his superhero stories, as he shares with us \u201cWriting What I Am Not.\u201d Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Dirty Harry said, \u201cA man\u2019s got to know his limitations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am a 60 year old man. I write superhero stories, Super Holly Hansson being my Superman.<\/strong> To make her easier to write, I made her like me: Swedish American, liberal, comic book geek, writer, short-temper (I control mine), and 25 years old (I was that once). But I\u2019ve never been a woman. So I had women critique my stories, and I rewrote.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Why are Holly and Bunni so busty?<\/em> I poke fun at how superheroines are drawn. I rewrote so some super guys have mighty muscles, barrel chests, and six-pack armor abs.<\/li>\n<li><em>I like Holly\u2019s beaky nose!<\/em> I added that on a whim; I wanted Holly\u2019s face fierce, not cute. Ladies liked that.<\/li>\n<li><em>A lady drew a smiley face next to Holly yelling, \u201cI hate football!\u201d<\/em> I figured a woman might feel that. I guessed right.<\/li>\n<li><em>A woman doesn\u2019t forget her first love.<\/em> Holly flashbacked to her being a little girl and crushing on a Batman actor, then yelling to Wonder Woman, \u201cHe\u2019s MY boyfriend!\u201d<\/li>\n<li><em>Did you need Bunni using her two main assets to boobnotize those soldiers?<\/em> I did go over the top. I\u2019ll rewrite. And I\u2019ll avoid the B-word: \u201cboob.\u201d It\u2019s crude. A mind-controlling ditz like Bunni would say, \u201c<strong><em>Tee hee!<\/em><\/strong> Lookit my boingy bouncies! <strong><em>Giggle!<\/em><\/strong>\u201d<\/li>\n<li><em>Why are women\u2019s supersuits skimpy?<\/em> I did that. Once. I cut it. I\u2019m tempted to do it again to superpowered muscle men.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>I also wrote a story about Fred \u201cFlex\u201d Lexington: big, handsome, ray of sunshine, barbell boy, and gay superhero. I\u2019m straight. A gay minister critiqued my story.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>At pride parades, there<\/em><em>\u2019s a big contingent of friendly churches marching to show their support. My religious people were homophobes.<\/em> I added ally churches and rainbow yamakas.<\/li>\n<li><em>It felt like the opposite of homophobia was an irresistible same-sex attraction, instead of an acceptance of who they are.<\/em> I stuck with my main villain being a closet case. His extreme homophobic hate must be rooted in something he can&#8217;t accept.<\/li>\n<li><em>A couple of times, Holly was beset with amorous lesbians who can<\/em><em>\u2019t keep their hands to themselves. An important part of any relationship, gay or straight, is consent.<\/em> I rewrote: Holly now says to a formerly attacking, now tearful lesbian that \u201cYou can kiss me if it makes you feel better.\u201d Dozens of tough lesbians (influenced by Flex\u2019s broadcast of super-love) say, \u201cWe can? Yay!\u201d Then they kiss-kiss-kissily swarm Holly like affectionate puppies. Consent and slapstick!<\/li>\n<li><em>He did not like the villain saying, \u00a0\u201clesbians want to be men.\u201d He knew people formerly living as women, now living as men.<\/em> I cut that fumbling homophobic line. I was not thinking of transgenderism. I am now. In my superhero universe, superpowers make you more of what you already are. That begs for a story.<\/li>\n<li><em>The biker gang wears red, white, and blue; there\u2019s nothing patriotic about homophobia.<\/em> Flag waving did not add to my story. Cut!<\/li>\n<li><em>All the band members and police were men; his experience was they were half men, half women. In the San Francisco parade, nearly all the bikers were<\/em> I added women cops and band members. My Bi-Biker Boys and Babes (my take on Dykes on Bikes) stayed half and half.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>To write women and gays, I asked them for feedback.<\/strong> They\u2019d see what I did not. Later I\u2019ll likely ask cops, kids, African Americans, artists, transgenders, \u00a0and anyone else I am not. As Randall Graves said in the movie \u00a0<em>Clerks<\/em> about a hermaphroditic porn video, \u201cHey, I like to expand my horizons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"https:\/\/davemstrom.wordpress.com alignleft wp-image-14688\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dave-M-Strom-head.jpg\" alt=\"Dave M Strom head\" width=\"150\" height=\"103\" \/>Dave M. Strom is a technical writer who has written about superheroine Holly Hansson since the novel <em>The DaVinci Code<\/em>. He puts funny into his superhero stories and has women clobber the bad guys. Dave reads comic books, watches cool cartoons, and occasionally performs at open mics.<\/p>\n<p>Website and blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/davemstrom.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/davemstrom.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:dave.strom@gmail.com\">dave.strom@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter: @davstrom<\/p>\n<p>Facebook: davstrom<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our guest columnist, David Strom. \u00a0An author who puts funny into his superhero stories, as he shares with us \u201cWriting What I Am Not.\u201d Enjoy! *** Dirty Harry said, \u201cA man\u2019s 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