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Reply Subj: That's what they all say. Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 at 12:24:26 pm EDT (Viewed 440 times) | |||||||
Quote: That's the preview I read. I don't usually like those I'm-better-than-everyone-else kinds of characters (Gideon Cain) is what I meant, because they're too difficult to relate to. Of course, if someone paid *me* to write one, I probably would too.Cain's puritanism did make for some interesting character choices when I was writing this. For starters, he's married, so although pulp fiction tends to demand beautiful damsels with torn bodices the hero's got to resist temptation. And Cain has to be dour and stern about evil but at the same time he's got to show Christian charity. A couple of the writers of the stories decided to do the "Cain goes against type" stories where he defends the persecuted witch or befriends the native shaman. I preferred throwing him into the situations that tested his faith hard and made him take hard decisions. So there's a bit where he encounters a rather desperate whore and has to decide how to react to her, for example. Should be denounce her for her deeds and have nothing to do with her or should he show compassion and try and help her despite her sins? I wrote this story very quickly in response to a request from the editor. Since then I've been far more involved mapping out the "series bible" and doing background guidelines for the other writers so I feel I know the character better now. It hopefully shows in my (twice as long) story for volume 2, which I think is improved on this one. That said, there's muttering about this one getting nominated for the Pulp Awards. I think that'll be nominations in both the novel and short stoy categories then. | |||||||
