Quote Originally Posted by snoopy13a View Post
The Catcher in the Rye was about a boarding school student fooling around in NYC. The Great Gatbsy was about rich people partying on Long Island. The Sun Also Rises was about American and British ex-pats drinking in France and Spain (primarily Spain). Yours are actually the "normal" literary concepts that are seen in "mainstream" literature.
Well, right, but it seems that trying to write those kinds of books is seen as pretentious, and it feels weird talking about those kinds of ideas when everyone else is writing about very imaginative science-fiction or fantasy type stories and I generally aim for very small, character-based stuff.