Ian PattersonHostWaltHost
Um, so pulp and romance demand some pretty different things from the author and the story.

Where did you feel that difference the most, and what worked and didn't work because of it?
[chuckles] So where I felt that difference the most, where, where I found the most friction, uh, was definitely how I had to approach any romance between the two of them.
So any shared intimacy I, I put between Mae and Hawk just had to be shown different ways.
So I kinda did the whole deeds not words approach with it, you know, sharing tips on survival during the games or vouching for one another where they're able to, uh, worrying about each other from the sidelines as they, as they're going through the events, right? And I mean, I, I think I threw in the quieter moments some, some good banter of a flirtatious manner in there.
Um, and the only instance I can think of [tongue click] where something didn't work actually was in the drafting stage.
Uh, but in the earlier drafts of Carnage, there was a scene where the two lovebirds had to use lethal, lethal force against one another, and I just didn't like it any way I sliced it, you know? I ended up cutting that scene and, uh, that's all I'll say about that.
Uh, but it did, it did establish the one rule I had for while, while I was writing Carnage, was that Hawk and Mae never open fire upon one each other [chuckles] one-

Um, so pulp and romance demand some pretty different things from the author and the story.

Where did you feel that difference the most, and what worked and didn't work because of it?
[chuckles] So where I felt that difference the most, where, where I found the most friction, uh, was definitely how I had to approach any romance between the two of them.
So any shared intimacy I, I put between Mae and Hawk just had to be shown different ways.
So I kinda did the whole deeds not words approach with it, you know, sharing tips on survival during the games or vouching for one another where they're able to, uh, worrying about each other from the sidelines as they, as they're going through the events, right? And I mean, I, I think I threw in the quieter moments some, some good banter of a flirtatious manner in there.
Um, and the only instance I can think of [tongue click] where something didn't work actually was in the drafting stage.
Uh, but in the earlier drafts of Carnage, there was a scene where the two lovebirds had to use lethal, lethal force against one another, and I just didn't like it any way I sliced it, you know? I ended up cutting that scene and, uh, that's all I'll say about that.
Uh, but it did, it did establish the one rule I had for while, while I was writing Carnage, was that Hawk and Mae never open fire upon one each other [chuckles] one-
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