tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882241647734848746.post8955690210749264685..comments2023-06-20T07:47:24.386-05:00Comments on The Spiced Tea Party: Scents and Sexuality, Roses and SweatUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882241647734848746.post-24187892880876981272008-05-17T09:44:00.000-05:002008-05-17T09:44:00.000-05:00Perhaps you're right, lil. Perhaps tastes and smel...Perhaps you're right, lil. Perhaps tastes and smells shouldn't leap out at the reader. For that matter, perhaps evocative language of any type should sort of, you know, keep it's counsel. My writing was once cited on some romance blog, along with some other writers', as particularly poetic. And when I told my husband and a friend about it, they said, "oh no, what's good about your sentences is that the rhythm carries the reader along, not that it stops the reader." A different way of looking at things, and perhaps more like yours.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the provocative thought. And thanks for going away to think about things, and then coming back to post.<BR/><BR/>I've got to see if I can work some of these thoughts into the presentation Jane Lockwood and I will be doing at RWA National this summer, on WRITING THE HOT HISTORICAL. <BR/><BR/>Hope those of you who can come, will.Pam Rosenthalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04357928783704661668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882241647734848746.post-25752114343609696762008-05-16T22:46:00.000-05:002008-05-16T22:46:00.000-05:00I read your post yesterday but had to think about ...I read your post yesterday but had to think about it before commenting. Scent and taste are so evocative for me and I think most people. However, I don't think I am generally conscious of it. Interesting post.Lilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13680968217522258788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882241647734848746.post-3446332327641190362008-05-15T21:04:00.000-05:002008-05-15T21:04:00.000-05:00Glad you enjoyed the post, eva, and thanks for sha...Glad you enjoyed the post, eva, and thanks for sharing the great story about the baby lotion. I think you may be right about the difficulty of describing the specificity of a scent. Quite possibly it would be better to describe how it makes the character feel. I enjoyed writing this description in <I>Almost a Gentleman</I> about how Phoebe remembered David tasting: <I>sweet as toffee, heady as tobacco, dark as earth</I>, but I think what I loved about it was the dizziness of the tobacco... so yes, it was how it made her feel. Or how it made ME feel, because I'd definitely still be a smoker if it were good for you. ;-}Pam Rosenthalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04357928783704661668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882241647734848746.post-46791355966539872362008-05-15T16:45:00.000-05:002008-05-15T16:45:00.000-05:00I was born in the states but was then taken down t...I was born in the states but was then taken down to Brazil where I spent about 5 years. I never went back again, but one day while visiting a US city where there is a heavy Portugese population my Mom and I stolled into some stores. I'm a smeller-I pick up bottles and sniff them before I buy, but this time I picked up a bottle of baby lotion and inhaled. I immeadiately was in Brazil, and when I showed my mother the bottle, she told me it was the brand she used on me when I was a baby. It was almost a primal effect, like when I stuff my nose in my husband's neck and inhale.<BR/><BR/>Writig specific scents is so hard-esp for the hero/ine. Sometimes it gets summed up in, "That unique scent that was all his own." Which, of course it is and as a description is lacking in all ways. Sweat and leather is a nod. Maybe to write how the scents make them feel rather than the smell itself? <BR/><BR/>What a wonderful post. Marlowe is a favorite, I'll try to remember to leave my yummy books out for the babysitter--and my daughter. I had forgotten how I picked up my habit. ;-)<BR/><BR/>Looking forward to The Edge of Impopriety.Eva Galehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08834856467514439544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882241647734848746.post-90019689002880499132008-05-15T09:32:00.000-05:002008-05-15T09:32:00.000-05:00The Twilight series is terrific, christina. And to...The Twilight series is terrific, christina. And to find out more about Meyer and her books, go to <A HREF="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3917660.ece" REL="nofollow">a recent Time Magazine article on her</A>.Pam Rosenthalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04357928783704661668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882241647734848746.post-5032572676645079202008-05-15T01:23:00.000-05:002008-05-15T01:23:00.000-05:00Scent is absolutely necessary. I sometimes think ...Scent is absolutely necessary. I sometimes think it is more important than the other senses when I read because it identifies everything for me: characteristics of the people I am reading about, their mannerisms, etc.<BR/><BR/>My earliest and favorite recollections of scent were found in Bram Stoker's Dracula. The smell of his foul breath or of the earth used in the coffins. <BR/><BR/>After reading this post, I think I will have to read the Twilight series.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03525678885769495261noreply@blogger.com