Does realising in the middle of more than one novel that a certain character is Aramis trying to sneak in under a different name count ?
(I hate working with Aramis, because he just won't ever tell me what's going on.)
I think a lot of what I do in general is in dialogue with a bunch of stuff, including other fiction and fictional tropes as well as real-world stuff - I know that where I started with Vega Victrix was "I am sick and tired of supposed heros who demonstrate their ability to make 'difficult moral choices' by saving the person they love at the cost of a bunch of strangers, and aggonising about it for years afterwards but never actually doing any different; how would it be to start with a person who was saved in that situation and considered it a betrayal ?" It's not always as direct as my d'Artagnan thing by a long shot though.
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Does realising in the middle of more than one novel that a certain character is Aramis trying to sneak in under a different name count ?
(I hate working with Aramis, because he just won't ever tell me what's going on.)
I think a lot of what I do in general is in dialogue with a bunch of stuff, including other fiction and fictional tropes as well as real-world stuff - I know that where I started with Vega Victrix was "I am sick and tired of supposed heros who demonstrate their ability to make 'difficult moral choices' by saving the person they love at the cost of a bunch of strangers, and aggonising about it for years afterwards but never actually doing any different; how would it be to start with a person who was saved in that situation and considered it a betrayal ?" It's not always as direct as my d'Artagnan thing by a long shot though.