PLEASE HELP ME WRITE MY FIRST NOVEL

WHAT MAKES A MAN A MAN?

This Blog explores the views, beliefs and feelings of all kinds of men, especially of teen guys, on the subject of MASCULINITY and on the process of becoming men.
This to help me write a novel about a recently orphaned teen boy struggling to become an adult with VERY confusing and conflicting guidance from a lot of very DIFFERENT men and women in his life.

The last words said by his dying father to him, three times, were "Walk like a man". This leaves a 14 year old genius whose voice has not yet changed and has not yet experienced any of the other body changes associated with puberty feeling that he has a duty to discover what his father meant. His body is certainly not giving him any clues!

Seth-Alexander (the boy) will be hearing a lot of different voices giving him advice.

Let one of those voices be YOURS! (Including the voices of women.) I NEED YOUR INPUT! I know what MY opinions, feelings and ideas are, as well as those of the guys who grew up around me, but that is a limited group of individuals who were mostly from two ethnic groups at a particular time. I do not have a good enough imagination to populate the book with a greater variety than that and make them really alive with credible souls and personalities. I need YOU to provide me with that.

What does it mean to YOU to be "manly"; to be "a real man"? How do you feel about your manhood, and the process you went through from a boy to becoming the man you are today? How has the way you’ve viewed masculinity changed as you matured, or has it stayed the same?

This is NOT an ADULT site, because I REALLY want to allow TEENAGE MEN a voice in this discussion. So, PLEASE watch you language, so stay that way. We are all (even you Teens) mature enough to know the "clinical" words for what you want to say, so you don't have to prove that you're a "REAL MAN" with the curse words. I will be more tolerant of crude language from the younger guys then from adults - one of the reasons I ask posters to state their age.

PLEASE leave "Comments" to my Postings!
(To add a "Comment", click on the number of Comments in TINY gray print at the end of the actual posting. - too often just a "0")
You can make "Anonymous" comments but please sign those with a "Pen Name" and your age. If you use a "Pen name", and add more Anonymous comments later, please use the same one.)

Answer the Polls, and add to the Guest Book, but those are SECONDARY to the "Comments"!

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About this Project

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I am a writer of short stories and professional articles attempting my first novel, "Walk Like A Man", which takes place in contemporary Brooklyn, NY, where I have lived since I was an infant. Some of the issues that the main character faces reflect ones that I faced as I entered puberty (my voice did not change until just after I turned 16). Some of the characters are based on people I knew growing up. Some are based on people currently in my life. I started my Blog to provide me with a variety of male voices to give advise to the young men in the novel as he enters puberty. I need the views of a wide variety of men. PLEASE ADD YOU VOICE! And often, as I change the topic with new postings.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Tom of Finland's "Kake"

Someone commented that their ideal of manhood came from the series of erotic cartoons about "Kake", by an artist who called himself "Tom of Finland". "Kake", who is usual a biker, trucker or some other tough blue collar type, is shown as having a spectacular build and impossible endowment. 

Then someone else commented that they had no idea who that was. So I went to find a picture of him, which was not that easy, since most of the images of him range from frankly erotic to downright pornographic, and I'm trying to keep a "G" rating for this blog! But I found this one, and it gave a good general idea of the "man". 

He tends to get into tough situation, or sometimes downright ridiculous situations, but always filled with sex with equally overly masculine men with equally impossible... proportions.

I have not avoided the promised posting on  images of masculinity - it's just that I came across somthing interestig i am still processing in my head, and I was also sick for a few days.

Let's just say that a search from just ONE of the common Internet search engines for "Masculinity" under "Images" gave me some VERY interesting images, and some VERY interesting insights....

More to come.

Ike  
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