by
Lars Hindsley
on Thu 17 May 2007 09:13 PM EDT
Tonight I've been working on my part two of the Aeroplane City trilogy, DangerMan. It's funny each time I set down to continue this story I think more and more like Dalton. I also find myself in so many character roles. It can get hard. You have to imagine yourself in the role of a woman when trying to write Araby. And that can be hard. You want view how she desires love from the feminine viewpoint, but when you have known tough unfeeling women as I have, you have to wonder if love really is the ultimate desire for a woman. It makes you rethink some of the character motivations despite already having set the character standards up a long time ago.
My other challenge is the world of Aeroplane City. I think of the detail and how that effects the infrastructure of this world I've created. It is daunting. You write and then days later you come back and find you want to make something better and more believable. After all, every little detail needs to be believable when you are trying to get your reader to accept a normally unbelievable world.
DangerMan is a character so near and dear to me. He's easy to write but hard to explain. After all, DangerMan is me on paper, living a life that I would attempt to live had I had to make the decisions he has to make. I would take a bullet for someone I loved, so DangerMan has to live that way. I would walk away from love if it meant losing my honor, So DangerMan (Dalton) would do the same. I would throw down my pride for love, so again DangerMan has to display that same quality even though it is a ... more »
