EXCERPT: The Fairer Sex Vol 2
Script completed: book to come out October 2005.
THE FAIRER SEX: A Tale of Shades and Angels script copyright 1998, John Ira Thomas. All rights reserved.
The date above is correct. I wrote TFS in 97-98 in a big swirl. The idea was to cross what we were doing with a Dario Argento-style swirl of interconnected events. It was written episodically as an experiment; after the big slug of a story that is NUMBERS, it seemed the next thing to try. The idea was to introduce what I ended up calling "Oh sh-t"s every little bit. Lots of it was written in the 620, a bar that Jeremy bartended at at the time. I was the guy in the corner drinking sodas writing like he was in a library. For some reason, getting my eardrums kicked around was like monastic prayer when writing this.
The night I finished the entire story, it was a holiday weekend so everyone was off visiting family. So I went to the area's only strip club--it seemed the thing to do. I'd just written a giant meditation of capital W woman and the screwed up ideas guys can get about it. It was a weeknight, so it was pretty dead. So I bought a string of table dances (very cheap in Iowa) and talked to a very bored college student about nothing, mostly. We ended up talking about the book, since she asked what I was celebrating.
She was a Women's Studies major. Yes, it's cliche. True or no, it plays to a meme, and strippers are very good at memes. I discussed women's issues with a woman with glow in the dark tape on her nipples until my fives ran out and I went home. It was more a coda than a celebration, but you can't buy experiences like that. Well, okay, you can.
I told my mom this story and she said "Ohhh, your books are just like what you used to write as a kid." She didn't buy the idea that I was writing on some other plane just because I went and told a stripper about it. Mom's always about the story. We watched more movies together when I was growing up than you can imagine. She would watch anything as long as there was a story there. She disapproved of BOLERO because the story went nowhere, but loved SLAVE GIRLS FROM BEYOND INFINITY because she wanted to know how those girls were gonna get out of that mess. She likes TFS vol 1, by the way. I've got Mom on the hook. Wait till she reads Vol 2.
--John
THE FAIRER SEX: A Tale of Shades and Angels script copyright 1998, John Ira Thomas. All rights reserved.The date above is correct. I wrote TFS in 97-98 in a big swirl. The idea was to cross what we were doing with a Dario Argento-style swirl of interconnected events. It was written episodically as an experiment; after the big slug of a story that is NUMBERS, it seemed the next thing to try. The idea was to introduce what I ended up calling "Oh sh-t"s every little bit. Lots of it was written in the 620, a bar that Jeremy bartended at at the time. I was the guy in the corner drinking sodas writing like he was in a library. For some reason, getting my eardrums kicked around was like monastic prayer when writing this.
The night I finished the entire story, it was a holiday weekend so everyone was off visiting family. So I went to the area's only strip club--it seemed the thing to do. I'd just written a giant meditation of capital W woman and the screwed up ideas guys can get about it. It was a weeknight, so it was pretty dead. So I bought a string of table dances (very cheap in Iowa) and talked to a very bored college student about nothing, mostly. We ended up talking about the book, since she asked what I was celebrating.
She was a Women's Studies major. Yes, it's cliche. True or no, it plays to a meme, and strippers are very good at memes. I discussed women's issues with a woman with glow in the dark tape on her nipples until my fives ran out and I went home. It was more a coda than a celebration, but you can't buy experiences like that. Well, okay, you can.
I told my mom this story and she said "Ohhh, your books are just like what you used to write as a kid." She didn't buy the idea that I was writing on some other plane just because I went and told a stripper about it. Mom's always about the story. We watched more movies together when I was growing up than you can imagine. She would watch anything as long as there was a story there. She disapproved of BOLERO because the story went nowhere, but loved SLAVE GIRLS FROM BEYOND INFINITY because she wanted to know how those girls were gonna get out of that mess. She likes TFS vol 1, by the way. I've got Mom on the hook. Wait till she reads Vol 2.
--John
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