Saturday, August 09, 2008

Thoughts on nano...

So, for this year I wanted to do something involving superheroes. Only not a parody/satire in the direct sense, since that has been done to death. The interesting problem is that the resulting novel will not be a superhero one, in a strict sense.

Time passes. People age,die, grow up. Change.

Superheroes do not change. It's one of the defining characteristics of the genre. Many Famous Detectives also follow the same mold (you could throw James Bond in it too). They don't age. Each story is complete, itself: it leaves no scars, no wounds that last, no baggage to drag a character down with. We grow by experience, but we learn via scar tissue.

So I am not quite sure what this nano will end up as, for all that it will hold the tropes of a superhero story.

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