I have a novella that I wrote after it, which I think is more publishable only in that it's tighter and better written than anything else... except that it's totally not, because it's A) a novella B) in a totally undefined genre C)...really weird. I have a kind of love-hate relationship with it.
I have been thinking about an idea I had a while ago that has to do with conversos and the Spanish Inquisition--a passion of mine from years past--but I've changed so much since I was last writing novels, I'm finding it very hard to even know how to go about it. All my characters were around my age at the time of writing, and now that I'm just an "adult"--who lives a life very different from your average audience--it's hard to decide on a perspective that people can identify with.
One of the problems I had was that one of the main points I wanted to make was very... unconventional, something an average audience might find very hard to swallow. But I decided that I could make it work by still driving in that that point in the background story and shifting the focus of the main story. Because really, there's plenty to be said about discovering one's hidden Jewish heritage without getting messed up in ideas about love and romance. And I never liked the female lead character much anyway. :P
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Date: 4 Jun 2010 03:03 pm (UTC)I have been thinking about an idea I had a while ago that has to do with conversos and the Spanish Inquisition--a passion of mine from years past--but I've changed so much since I was last writing novels, I'm finding it very hard to even know how to go about it. All my characters were around my age at the time of writing, and now that I'm just an "adult"--who lives a life very different from your average audience--it's hard to decide on a perspective that people can identify with.
One of the problems I had was that one of the main points I wanted to make was very... unconventional, something an average audience might find very hard to swallow. But I decided that I could make it work by still driving in that that point in the background story and shifting the focus of the main story. Because really, there's plenty to be said about discovering one's hidden Jewish heritage without getting messed up in ideas about love and romance. And I never liked the female lead character much anyway. :P
~D