Q&A with U.L. Harper author of The Flesh Statue discussion
Subplots
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Dec 31, 2009 09:06PM
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I like to use subplots as genre benders. These are small stories inside stories, yet bringing out the main story. What I mean by genre benders is this: While the main story might be a love story, one of the subplots might simply be a children's story. Keeping the tone gets tricky, but that only means it's more fun to write.
About a week ago I participated in a conversation about publishers and book sellers etc etc forcing your story into whatever genre they wanted it to be in and how that effects writers. What's fascinating is that when I apply those thoughts to my novel I get reminded of why beginning to market this story was so hard. The issue of Alzheimers is prevalent and I wanted to focus on that audience but realized that audience will never read this story, so instead, any marketing is really about the younger characters and what they're doing. But maybe it's time to focus on that untapped audience.
