To Fur, or not to Fur.

[elfs]

As I was reviewing my work last night, I realized that I have been desperately, poorly remiss on one major aspect of my writing. It's such a glaring that problem that it's really starting to nag at me.

I haven't written a fur in a long time. Residents and Glass Reunion are very old stories that I polished up for recent publication. About the only recent "furry" story is A Place In History, which is a warped and depressing piece of work by Transhumanist standards. You have to go back to September 2004 to find a story I've written that features a furry character as the protagonist.

All of which leaves me with the Naked City [Edit: I swear, I did not look at the Music field before writing this post!] phenomenon: there are 250 stories to be told among the Sterlings on board the starship Einstein's Canvas, and I've only concentrated on three of them. All of the Pendorians who get involved (Saul, the Twins, Zoeya) are human. I've been canoodling with using other characters (an academic and a journalist) instead of my current stable of government, military, and office types and wondering if I should make the object of their affections furry.

My furry stories have usually been about metaphor: for being a different race, or a different sexuality, or being handicapped by one's shape, or so forth. They've been about seeing past the surface. I've resisted writing fur with Sterlings mostly because humans have gotten so weird for the near-standard Sterling characters that just seeing the surface is hard enough.

Just idly thinkin' here, that maybe some of my fans have been disappointed by the recent lack of catgirls and the like, and maybe I should strive to put a few more in.

Comments

[sirfox.livejournal.com]

please do.

Heck, with the humans all being so odd, tossing out some other species will both add variety, and maybe even a nice contrast. You've got all your current human characters fighting tooth and nail with their upbringing and environments to be human, and here's this cat/mouse/zebra/whatever who's doing a better job of it than they are.

It could be a good grounding for a character who's having a hard time 'finding' themselves, perhaps. Also, if this is well on into the future, after kennet's little terror has taken over in the engineering lab, i'd love to see what new species she's churned out to add to the mix.

[tehrasha.livejournal.com]

I have been wondering if Carrol ever took advantage of Ken giving her Donna's genecode. Seeing Ken's reaction to a Donna II would be very interesting, especially if Carrol never told him about it.

It may even be good outlet for your recently mentioned melancholy.