I've read some Sherman Alexie having come across him during my research.
Actually that's a good idea, inventing a tribe instead of trying to fit a real one - especially as this is really a fantasy sci fi book and not supposed to be real life. I am thinking of re writing the thing - some other advice I read somewhere that said don't edit, re-write - so this would be a good opportunity to free up the existing words from the constraints I imposed and have to a certain extent grown away from since I started it. Cool beans!
I suppose one of my problems is, in this particular instance, I don't realistically expect to have an audience. I'm thinking of putting the novel out there, but have no real expectation of it getting published or read. So to a large extent, it's written for me. But on the other hand, I want other people to read it so therefore I work on it as if they will ...
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Actually that's a good idea, inventing a tribe instead of trying to fit a real one - especially as this is really a fantasy sci fi book and not supposed to be real life. I am thinking of re writing the thing - some other advice I read somewhere that said don't edit, re-write - so this would be a good opportunity to free up the existing words from the constraints I imposed and have to a certain extent grown away from since I started it. Cool beans!
I suppose one of my problems is, in this particular instance, I don't realistically expect to have an audience. I'm thinking of putting the novel out there, but have no real expectation of it getting published or read. So to a large extent, it's written for me. But on the other hand, I want other people to read it so therefore I work on it as if they will ...