It's great to revisit the Marty character again, even in a flashback--he brings a wonderful dimension to the story. I'm struck by how unlikely the deep relationship between all these characters might otherwise be if not for the horrors that connect them, which also seems true to life.
Thank you so much for leaving a comment. Creating emotional and ideological differences between characters and throwing them together in a bizarre situation is one of the things I love most about writing. To take your own novel as an example, in which the Scythian princess embarks on a journey with Greek retainers and comes into contact with far-flung Turkic and Iranian tribes along the way: a setting like that provides an excellent backdrop for some engaging revelations about human nature and how people can find common ground on which to build systems and relationships, be they personal, romantic, or societal. I think both writers and readers profit from imaginative exercises of that kind.
It's great to revisit the Marty character again, even in a flashback--he brings a wonderful dimension to the story. I'm struck by how unlikely the deep relationship between all these characters might otherwise be if not for the horrors that connect them, which also seems true to life.
Thank you so much for leaving a comment. Creating emotional and ideological differences between characters and throwing them together in a bizarre situation is one of the things I love most about writing. To take your own novel as an example, in which the Scythian princess embarks on a journey with Greek retainers and comes into contact with far-flung Turkic and Iranian tribes along the way: a setting like that provides an excellent backdrop for some engaging revelations about human nature and how people can find common ground on which to build systems and relationships, be they personal, romantic, or societal. I think both writers and readers profit from imaginative exercises of that kind.