So I once wrote a story

[bmlg]

where an important character's gender was never specified. My friend Paul said 'but you knew which it was, right?'
No, actually I didn't. Still don't.
Which may (not) excuse or explain why it's only now I'm vaguely thinking of building the Chimps story-world into a novel that I've thought enough about Willow's background (she's from a circus - carny

Comments

[eljaydaly]

Interesting. Good luck with it!

[bmlg]

Thanks! Maybe I'm overthinking, and if I just jump into the story & start swimming, I won't worry about what genre I'm writing, or the worldbuilding implications of names.

[bogwitch64]

Let your agent worry about the genre. Just write. It's what you do. And whether or not you agonize over these things, it never shows in your writing--at least, nothing I've seen.

And if this doesn't work out, you always have your stellar 3-day novel to play with. :) (hint-hint, nudge-nudge, wink-wink.)

[bmlg]

You like it, huh?

[bogwitch64]

"Like" doesn't do it justice. :)