Writerly Ways
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cornerofmadnessBut first have a free Halloween story with the local threesome I wrote last year. Cabin in the Woods and a little about what's been going on with Jana here
So I'm thinking mightily on my nano (which should have been on that sequel I posted a snippet of for Kira but is going to be that SF thing I talked about). If you didn't have a look at the characters, please do. I'd love opinions on them. You can find Aneurin and Kaleo here.
After the giant melt down on m/m romance I AM nervous about writing this one since it is a slavery story. At the heart of it, that's just idiotic that I am. Various slavery stories exist. It's a common SF/Fantasy trope really. I guess it's more 'acceptable' if it's fantasy than it is if it's historical. I would be much less likely to try it if I was writing it set in the South of 1840. I can very obviously see why this would be problematic. I have done historical slave stories before. In this case it was the Irish sold into slavery on St. Kitt in the Virgin Islands by Cromwell's men and it wasn't a romance.
The romance, of course, is the problem. At the end of the day, I think I would rather market my nano as a Space Opera with a romantic sub plot. The one thing that is made very clear is Aneurin was an unwilling party to all of this and has no intention of using Kaleo. I don't know if that makes it better or worse.
What I do know is these characters have been hounding me for three years now. It's time to get their story out of my head (there's at least two novels in this). I can't be afraid to tell a story. I'm afraid more and more lately with literally everything and anything being considered a problem (you have no non-white characters, you suck. White people have no business writing non-white characters, stop it. Non-white characters equal white genocide (seriously Star Wars idiots, SERIOUSLY??), women have no business writing gay men. Men of any kind can write women but they aren't allowed to write strong women because at heart they're all talking penises who should have nothing to do with women. I don't know where this is all going or where it stops. Maybe with the world afraid to even speak. God knows I'm edging that way).
Of course Kaleo being not entirely Caucasian makes me worried someone will be made that he's the one who's a slave. He's Caucasian/Polynesian and half alien. Does that make it better? Worse? Am I overthinking it?
I think it comes down to how I tell this story, how everyone reacts when the truth is known. I know I can't please everyone. (I really need to stop writing polyamorous stories because wow people really think you can't be poly AND happy and heaven help you if you're poly and bi.) On the other hand I don't want a giant kerfluffle that blows up the internet either.
Wish me luck.
I didn't write anything this week. Just edited.
So I'm thinking mightily on my nano (which should have been on that sequel I posted a snippet of for Kira but is going to be that SF thing I talked about). If you didn't have a look at the characters, please do. I'd love opinions on them. You can find Aneurin and Kaleo here.
After the giant melt down on m/m romance I AM nervous about writing this one since it is a slavery story. At the heart of it, that's just idiotic that I am. Various slavery stories exist. It's a common SF/Fantasy trope really. I guess it's more 'acceptable' if it's fantasy than it is if it's historical. I would be much less likely to try it if I was writing it set in the South of 1840. I can very obviously see why this would be problematic. I have done historical slave stories before. In this case it was the Irish sold into slavery on St. Kitt in the Virgin Islands by Cromwell's men and it wasn't a romance.
The romance, of course, is the problem. At the end of the day, I think I would rather market my nano as a Space Opera with a romantic sub plot. The one thing that is made very clear is Aneurin was an unwilling party to all of this and has no intention of using Kaleo. I don't know if that makes it better or worse.
What I do know is these characters have been hounding me for three years now. It's time to get their story out of my head (there's at least two novels in this). I can't be afraid to tell a story. I'm afraid more and more lately with literally everything and anything being considered a problem (you have no non-white characters, you suck. White people have no business writing non-white characters, stop it. Non-white characters equal white genocide (seriously Star Wars idiots, SERIOUSLY??), women have no business writing gay men. Men of any kind can write women but they aren't allowed to write strong women because at heart they're all talking penises who should have nothing to do with women. I don't know where this is all going or where it stops. Maybe with the world afraid to even speak. God knows I'm edging that way).
Of course Kaleo being not entirely Caucasian makes me worried someone will be made that he's the one who's a slave. He's Caucasian/Polynesian and half alien. Does that make it better? Worse? Am I overthinking it?
I think it comes down to how I tell this story, how everyone reacts when the truth is known. I know I can't please everyone. (I really need to stop writing polyamorous stories because wow people really think you can't be poly AND happy and heaven help you if you're poly and bi.) On the other hand I don't want a giant kerfluffle that blows up the internet either.
Wish me luck.
I didn't write anything this week. Just edited.
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