Rob (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} robyrt) wrote,@ 2008-06-10 15:53:00 |
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Dangers of Genre Fiction
While rethinking my personal brand of super heroes, I've been churning through a bunch of possible new ideas. Depressingly, most of them have been done before, by the Marvel/DC big guys in fact. I had originally thought I was subconsciously copying their riffs from my previous exposure to the material, but in at least one instance (Damien Tryp from X-Factor Investigations, a series of whose entire existence I was unaware until today) I appear to have independently evolved these ideas. This makes me feel better about myself. :-P
The problem remains with superheroes that I am a big fan of teams, but they require such a vast quantity of interpersonal reactions that I am probably not good enough to write about them. As a result, I've started deleting minor characters until I get to a manageable number. :-P
While rethinking my personal brand of super heroes, I've been churning through a bunch of possible new ideas. Depressingly, most of them have been done before, by the Marvel/DC big guys in fact. I had originally thought I was subconsciously copying their riffs from my previous exposure to the material, but in at least one instance (Damien Tryp from X-Factor Investigations, a series of whose entire existence I was unaware until today) I appear to have independently evolved these ideas. This makes me feel better about myself. :-P
The problem remains with superheroes that I am a big fan of teams, but they require such a vast quantity of interpersonal reactions that I am probably not good enough to write about them. As a result, I've started deleting minor characters until I get to a manageable number. :-P
