As I've been reading through more of George Orwell's work I've found myself wondering again about the goals of my work. I have never truly strove to write a book meant to be anything greater than entertainment. I don't think that's a problem; my motivation is simply not to be some profound worker of words. I just want to make people happy with my work. To give them the same happiness I have had in working on my writing.
Lynd and The Drakes has no real political statements to give. Not really. There is some set-up for events in future novels that will be more political, but for the most part it's big statement is love can find a way. And also, cowboys who are butch lesbians.
Modern Aeon has some stuff to say about industry. But it has a lot more to say about letting people into your heart. It features a characters with trauma finding love that helps them heal. There are struggles with identity and commitment, real life worries about meeting personal expectations. It speaks to a unity in people, a shared struggle against racism. But overall it isn't my most political work.
Arguably Sanctuary is a very political book, but ultimately it's goals are not to teach or to persuade. Instead it is simply to provide people who already believe in my ideals of communal living free of unjust hierarchy and about the damage done by capitalism upon people and communities who do not fit within its norms. It's a book about real love persisting and finding a way and recovery no matter how unworthy and broken and wrong you feel. It's about believing victims and doing what's right, bodily autonomy and the choice of the carrier. It's pretty political, for being a werewolf breeding romance novel. But again, it's not really trying to tell anyone how to live or prescribe a solution to life. It's escapism.
Overall, I don't think I will ever strive to try to teach people or persuade others to a way of thinking. Instead, my goal will always be to provide some comforting stories with porn and political truths my audience likely already agree with. I'd only ever profess love as a healing and powerful force to those who want that, to those who'd seek comfort in this challenging world. I hope anyway, that I can for a long time to come, work on works that share that. Maybe it's more political than I think to believe in and to love love, I don't know.
If that seems appealing to you I'm working on more novels that will come out sometime this year. I'm just a small indie author. I don't have a team or anything. Eventually, I am going to try to change how I publish my novels to build hype and afford a reliable editor and pay for things like illustrations and physical printing. Any rebugs (idk if that's what they're called) or bugdoots (I'm sure that's what their called) go a long way. If you're a lesbian indie author let me know and maybe we can do a book exchange for reviews or something.
