[Mark Newman]

I'm not bothered; I have plenty to read.

But after more than two months I'm not expecting an answer.

Mark

[Mark Newman]

I saw the reference to the Process from this Thread and tried to join but received no reply at all, after presenting my "credentials".

I guess one must be QUITE prominent to join.  😉

[Mark Newman]

I read Body.  It wasn't very appealing.  A lot of the awful bodybuilding drug culture.

[Mark Newman]

This one isn't muscle growth, but it is a mainstream novel about a muscular girl.

Modern Ranch Living, by Mark Poirer

This is the Amazon blurb.

The action centres on a small community in Tucson, Arizona, with the disappearance of a local teenager triggering the plot. However, it's the book's principal characters that keep the reader turning the page – notably 16 year-old Kendra, the muscle-bound young girl with a bizarre grammatical habit (her favourite phrase: "plussing as which") and Merv, the 30 year-old pool attendant that still lives with his mom. These characters are immediately engaging, and for all their oddities and imperfections, it is easy for the reader to empathise with them.

And this was one of my favorite excerpts.

By the time she hit junior high, she was worked, thick with muscle and intimidating to some of her teachers.  Her abdominals were like six caramel apples, and her shoulders were as wide as an Olympic swimmer's.  At home, she walked around in her sports bra, on display, pausing to flex in mirrors and snack on protein.

[Mark Newman]

My personal philosophy is in all of my stories, but it's not as simple as a character's speech, justice being done in the end or the right party getting elected. 

Part of the fun of writing for me to be completely realistic about good and evil, moral choices and the laws of the universe.

And we do need more bosomy Amazonic women.

[Mark Newman]

Like some of you, I started writing because I wanted to read the stuff.  And I somehow found writing it was even more of a turn on than reading it.

But strangely enough, I started writing this stuff 6 months before I discovered alt.amazon-women.admirers and the internet in 1994.  Must have been the Zeitgeist or something in the water.

[Mark Newman]

I do enjoy finishing incomplete stories, or working on variants of existing stories, but only if the styles are compatible (and I have permission).  For me, this works best if there is somewhat less detail in the original story than I would put it, leaving room for my own spin on it. 

Sometimes I just write Marknew versions that are inspired by the original by are wholly mine.

I love writing Marknew variants with Steve the Z's stories, and Helplesscase has inspired two entire stories for me.

[Mark Newman]

In the early days of Amazon stories the male characters always seemed to be 5'1" and 105 lbs.  I'm glad those days are over.

I like the male characters to be as normal as possible so that, as Pug says, I can identify with him.  It makes the contrast with the stronger or superstrong female more personal, more real, and ultimately more arousing for me.

[Mark Newman]

I enjoy both, but to be honest the science in my stories is really just another form of magic that pretends to be science.  The difference is in how the user understands it, and to what extent the power that the science or magic brings is universally available.

At bottom, the key in my stories is power, and science or magic are different ways to exercise power, with different rules.

[Mark Newman]

I do from time to time.  All characters named Mark in my stories are cameos.  The most consistent one is in my Brandi stories, and that's the closest I come to being a main character, but I find it enjoyable as a bit of comedy.

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