Waiting and Seeing
June was a hotbed of writing goodness for me. Acceptances and published stories all over the place. Since then, things have been pretty slow. Molassas, even. Though, as always, the rejections trickle in.
I’m waiting to hear about another semi-related gig, as well. No details on that right now, but if it pans out, you’ll be sure to hear about it here!
I don’t know where the summer has gone! I can’t believe it’s August already. I swear I just blinked at it was June! Of course, my day job as a technical writer has been overwhelming lately, so that is the reason behind some of that. And it looks like things at work will stay hectic throughout the fall (as fall is our traditional “busy season”).
But, I shall perservere and find time to write. On Monday, I finally wrote that new superhero story that I’d been ruminating on for a while. It’s about a girl with the power to change her appearance (face and body type). It turned into a nice little flash piece, if I do say so myself. We’ll see how it does at the market to which I sent it.
I don’t know that I should call the girl a superhero, specifically — at least not with all the baggage that term implies (Alex wrote a really interesting post about that recently… read it!). It’s more that she happens to have this amazing power — the term superhero seems to suggest that she is all about using her power for the forces of good and justice, and I’m not sure this character has such pure motivations.
Of course, characters who fall into the shades of gray are inherently more interesting than those who are black and white, in my opinion.
All right, that is enough babble from me today. I hope you all have an awesome Thursday!
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Sometimes I also wonder what makes a characters a superhero (or villain) as opposed to just someone with awesome powers. Or what about people who fight evil but don’t have supernatural powers. For instance, Batman doesn’t have supernatural powers (neither does Robin, actually), but he’s still considered a superhero.
Maybe it’s the crusade against evil that makes a superhero? But it has to be a dramatic crusade against evil, complete with some kind of powers and a costume. Batman and Robin didn’t have natural superpowers, but they had all the superpowers and gadgets money could buy for them. But if there were some guy who had powers and didn’t use them but just worked in a factory all day, he would be a “super” but not really a hero.
I don’t know… just a theory.