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I am currently fiddling around with the sequel to EVIL IS ALWAYS HUMAN. It will begin (current plan! subject to change!) around the year 1925.
The nature of the story doesn't require a lot of research. It is fiction, after all, and the characters involved don't get involved in any historic events.
Still, I have to weave in some historical fact: automobiles, roadways, available consumer goods, etc. I want to be accurate, in general at least.
One facet of this story has my main character working as an automobile mechanic. I am considering having him travel at one point.
I think the best part of my story is the interaction between characters. I don't want to get bogged down, therefore, with details that are not really important to the core of the story.
I was pleased yesterday to have a fellow who had just read my book tell me how accurate he thought the car descriptions were. This fellow owns a Model T; that's what had prompted our discussion.
He thought that my characters had believable reactions to the sound of cars. (The first novel is set in 1912 to 1925.)
Then he told me his family Model T story. His grandfather had owned many cars, but there were no Model Ts. Why not? he had asked his father.
It turned out that grandfather's brother had driven another family member's new Model T. The brother had driven said car into a barn and was killed immediately.
A dislike of the Model T was the outcome.
That story prompted a discussion of the danger of American cars in the old days.
All that has me thinking more about the role that cars will play in the story.
We'll see.
The nature of the story doesn't require a lot of research. It is fiction, after all, and the characters involved don't get involved in any historic events.
Still, I have to weave in some historical fact: automobiles, roadways, available consumer goods, etc. I want to be accurate, in general at least.
One facet of this story has my main character working as an automobile mechanic. I am considering having him travel at one point.
I think the best part of my story is the interaction between characters. I don't want to get bogged down, therefore, with details that are not really important to the core of the story.
I was pleased yesterday to have a fellow who had just read my book tell me how accurate he thought the car descriptions were. This fellow owns a Model T; that's what had prompted our discussion.
He thought that my characters had believable reactions to the sound of cars. (The first novel is set in 1912 to 1925.)
Then he told me his family Model T story. His grandfather had owned many cars, but there were no Model Ts. Why not? he had asked his father.
It turned out that grandfather's brother had driven another family member's new Model T. The brother had driven said car into a barn and was killed immediately.
A dislike of the Model T was the outcome.
That story prompted a discussion of the danger of American cars in the old days.
All that has me thinking more about the role that cars will play in the story.
We'll see.
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I began to write because it seemed to be a realm in which one could exercise omnipotence. It's not.
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