Jan
31
2009
Why it’s hard to write new stories
I had this idea for a story with a character like Father Darrow (from Susan Howatch’s Starbridge series) for Casey. Like, maybe he comes to look after Home School pro tem? When I thought about writing it, though, it felt like cheating. Because, Casey protested, it wasn’t true! The truth was that RP and Marky died in a plane crash, Home school was disbanded, and TL scarcely even exists anymore – or is it Casey who scarcely exists? How could we write about a new character coming into that world when there is no one? Then there is the problem that Casey traditionally refuses to step aside and allow any other bottom characters to emerge, so it’s no good writing about Father Darrow taking charge of some other semi-orphan. Boo.
