Some good stuff I forgot to mention

[kjpepper]

I've been writing in the stolen moments here and there when I'm not freaking out about my life.

I've discovered that I like worldbuilding. I like taking the reality we exist in and messing it up a little. And even though my characters are some of the stuff that's stressing me out right now, I'm enjoying letting them talk... when I've got time to write down their conversations.

I've got the very beginning of a short story set in my world. The main character is your typical elderly churchgoing black lady. :) I like fantasy stories that aren't yet another coming of age tale and have protagonists older than 25. (examples: the story "Chivalry" by Neil Gaiman and Minerva Wakes by Holly Lisle.) I like the idea that random magic is not solely the domain of young (pale) children, cause really, how many of us late twenties early thirties and beyond folk still poke the back of closets and wardrobes looking for Narnia?

I know I do.

Comments

[nepenthedreams]

I love the idea of having an older woman as the main character.

I wonder if the reason so many books have children as the focus is because we universally understand the childhood experience, having gone through it. Bigger audience. For adult stories, sometimes you have to go through it to understand the subleties.