It occurs to me that I write about very similar things most of the time. They take very different forms and have different flavors, so it's not like I'm going to pull a Heinlein-at-the-end-of-his-career or anything, but it's...odd.
Am I only ever going to write about one thing, or is this just a phase?
Here are the bigger stories*:
- Alien Blue (New Mexico aliens and beer) - What makes a good person or a bad one?
- Magic Thread (Japanese disfunctional gods and an unbreakable thread made from a bloodline) - Once you go outside the cultural norm, where do you belong?
- Iron Road (1946 Nancy Drew with goblins and mechs) - Almost the same theme as Magic Thread.
- (New one) Slaughterhouse Jane (1912 Sioux Falls fairies and the end of a golden era/childhood) - Claiming your inheritance, with all it entails.
I'm not sure how I feel about that. Am I in a rut, or am I having a Knippling "Blue Period"? Do I not know who I am? Is it a Generation X thing? Was my extended family so big that I felt an overwhelming need to escape it, but not so far I couldn't go back - living on the border of two identities? Or do I just like to travel?
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But enough about me. What do you find yourself writing about, in stories or games? What characters do you end up making on MMOs? Do your favorite songs or books have a theme?
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*Other stories I haven't written and won't soon:
Border Dogs (1950s South Dakota brothers vs. "Weird Tales") - Not sure yet.
Best of all Possible Beauregards (1980s Minnepolis time-travelling detective) - Not sure yet.
First book, in ??? state:
Gods of Grey Hill (post-apocolyptic South Dakota) - Creation, recreation.
Notice: I don't really know what these stories are about, and I'm not compelled to write them right now.
