What are your favourite kinds of characters?
My favourite kind of character to write is one that twists traditional rolls and stereotypes. I like to change the genders around (sometimes, even in the same character as what happens to Dancing Cat), change out the religions, insert religions, toss the cliches on their head.
I believe that literature has the power to challenge tradition. There was a time that reading was considered dangerous, especially for women. Only a select few controlled literacy and those wielded the power. By reading ...
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Lynda
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Aug 17, 2010 07:54AM
My main character, Amel, began as a gender-bender twist on stereotypes. He's since evolved into a real person (no, don't call my shrink! I'm getting better, really). Your comment on reading being dangerous reminds me of book I just listen to called "The Last Wife of Henry VIII" in which reading the bible was the subversive thing women were doing. It was all about the reformation of course and reading it yourself vs. listening to it in latin and everyone having new ideas. Unfortunately a lot of those new ideas led to new definitions of heresy and reasons for executing your neighbors. Sigh. Contemplate the good (as well as bad) of conservative attitudes in my writing these days. Maybe I'm just getting old. :-)
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