![]() ![]() It’s OK to want to have an anti-hero character. If you absolutely MUST do it, at least write it well enough to make us not want to gouge out our eyes.īack to our PoV. This isn’t to say you can’t do the “going to Hell and back” thing…well actually that is exactly what we are saying. Look, the whole going (or being sent) to Hell thing has been done. Oh, and the title? It comes in randomly a little over half-way through the book. Were there enough clichéd archetypes and motifs in that paragraph for you? That’s just scratching the surface. Oh, and there is a war between Heaven and Hell that Stark is in the middle of (GASP!). Stark wants revenge on the people that sent him down to Hell. ![]() This is where the book picks up–Stark waking up in a graveyard in L.A. The main PoV, James Stark (a magician, of course), was sent to Hell by his “friends.” He fought demons “Downtown,” (as the character calls it) Gladiator style for eleven years, and then managed to escape. There is a blatant attempt in this novel to have a Harry Dresden-style character be super dark and gritty. SANDMAN SLIM, by Richard Kadrey, takes a little of both of those. A bad author, however, could have the most amazing idea, and make it seem second-rate drivel. A good author can take the most cliché, horrible idea, and make it work. ![]() There are beliefs, of sorts, in the writing business. ![]()
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