I had been thinking about finishing my short story Bear Wolf today, but I'm feeling really interested in Lost Lamb. I think that I may have come to a revision of chapter seven that I like more than the previous direction. I guess I'll never know how an audience would have felt about that scene I chose not to write, but I also have to consider my own tastes--what gets me excited and interested in something. Maybe I was thinking that I could be subtle here, like my favorite detective novels, but I'm also writing fantasy. Let's face it, fantasy is not that subtle.
Is it a big mystery who the bad guys are in Lord of the Rings? How about Star Wars? Short of having huge neon signs over their heads that say "Bad Guys" the lines between good and evil couldn't be any more distinct. I'm sure this archetype comes from mythology, the old stories of knights slaying dragons in the middle ages, the story of Beowulf and Grendel, the story of Gilgamesh. These are examples of a very typical hero myth, and ultimately, I want my writing in this genre to have that quality of Good versus Evil. I try to mix it up by making Jaden conflicted about himself, and try to throw in some other elements of the detective genre--just the right ones I hope. But at its core, I think this story is the hero myth. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, I'm not sure.
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