oh - hey - quiet hero's are the *best* of all possible hero's!
Facing the 'bright fear' is immediate and transitory, and while yes, heroic, and shouldn't be belittled, it says very little about the base 'character' of the hero.
Quiet hero's - those who take the long road, are truly MORE heroic than those who make the fast 'live or die' decision. - and the read that way as well. Creating cinema for them is tricky, but in print - oh yeah, they work beautifully!
"Mrs. Brown" becoming heroic, depends rather entirely on who Mrs. Brown was before she BECAME "Mrs. Brown" - you cannot convince me that Miri, life-mated to Val-Con, having raised the new generation of Korval, and now being 'of a certain age' - will not OF COURSE remember and if necessary, re-aquire the habits and training she had as a young woman. She would probably utilize and impliment said training with more thought and sense perhaps - oh no, I'm NOT jumping that fence if I can possibly walk around it - but the base is very much there.
If we have to go with 'genre' work (which, actually, I don't class your writing AS) - you have to remember that the genre has grown up! - once upon a time it was written for and read by adolescent males - but that's truly no longer a factor. I'm 42, hubby's 40 and my 15yr. old daughter enjoys stories of adults and grey-heads as much as she does tales of teens and young adults.
There is a lot of buzz regarding women of a certain age - which completely ignores MEN of a certain age. The settled, married/divorced/widowed older male who's fallen into a rut of domesticity. They exist in vast numbers. I see no reason why they should automatically be given the 'of course they could revert to the values of their youth' award - when physiologically, woman is stronger and more resistant to the vagaries age. (which is why you hear about widowed 'Mrs. Brown' in the first place)
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Date: 2008-11-28 01:57 pm (UTC)Facing the 'bright fear' is immediate and transitory, and while yes, heroic, and shouldn't be belittled, it says very little about the base 'character' of the hero.
Quiet hero's - those who take the long road, are truly MORE heroic than those who make the fast 'live or die' decision. - and the read that way as well. Creating cinema for them is tricky, but in print - oh yeah, they work beautifully!
"Mrs. Brown" becoming heroic, depends rather entirely on who Mrs. Brown was before she BECAME "Mrs. Brown" - you cannot convince me that Miri, life-mated to Val-Con, having raised the new generation of Korval, and now being 'of a certain age' - will not OF COURSE remember and if necessary, re-aquire the habits and training she had as a young woman. She would probably utilize and impliment said training with more thought and sense perhaps - oh no, I'm NOT jumping that fence if I can possibly walk around it - but the base is very much there.
If we have to go with 'genre' work (which, actually, I don't class your writing AS) - you have to remember that the genre has grown up! - once upon a time it was written for and read by adolescent males - but that's truly no longer a factor. I'm 42, hubby's 40 and my 15yr. old daughter enjoys stories of adults and grey-heads as much as she does tales of teens and young adults.
There is a lot of buzz regarding women of a certain age - which completely ignores MEN of a certain age. The settled, married/divorced/widowed older male who's fallen into a rut of domesticity. They exist in vast numbers. I see no reason why they should automatically be given the 'of course they could revert to the values of their youth' award - when physiologically, woman is stronger and more resistant to the vagaries age. (which is why you hear about widowed 'Mrs. Brown' in the first place)
A small bag of penny type thoughts is all.