Munday messages
Do you have a message in your writing, something big and important you feel you need to say that spurs you to write? If so, what is it?
If not, does this bother you? Do you think writers need that to be 'real' writers? What is your definition of a 'real' writer?
If there's a message I want to impart in the novel/s about Marce, Emil, and company, it is that being young is not an excuse to be indifferent.
I want to write a novel that counteracts so much of the chick-lit that's going around nowadays, portraying young people as being vapid, obsessed with materialism, prestige, and romance, or as simply apathetic. My characters go through a bit of that, but I also write them as being able to look beyond the here and now, as being capable of compassion and heroism (even when there is no national crisis), and as having the willpower to effect some change around them.
In a world where idealism has been laughed at, I want to write about people who know how it is to stand for something, whether it's their faith in God, or a belief in a better world, or simply the conviction that no one deserves to be the victim of political and social impunity.
In part, my story is a tribute to many brave people I've met, known, and had the pleasure of growing up with.
If not, does this bother you? Do you think writers need that to be 'real' writers? What is your definition of a 'real' writer?
If there's a message I want to impart in the novel/s about Marce, Emil, and company, it is that being young is not an excuse to be indifferent.
I want to write a novel that counteracts so much of the chick-lit that's going around nowadays, portraying young people as being vapid, obsessed with materialism, prestige, and romance, or as simply apathetic. My characters go through a bit of that, but I also write them as being able to look beyond the here and now, as being capable of compassion and heroism (even when there is no national crisis), and as having the willpower to effect some change around them.
In a world where idealism has been laughed at, I want to write about people who know how it is to stand for something, whether it's their faith in God, or a belief in a better world, or simply the conviction that no one deserves to be the victim of political and social impunity.
In part, my story is a tribute to many brave people I've met, known, and had the pleasure of growing up with.