“Godsend” Influences
I
decided to write “Godsend” for a number of reasons. At the time, I was taking a
class by Kyle Minor, and it seemed like every other lecture or fiction example
he used danced around religion. I am also pretty interested in religion as a
whole, especially Christianity, and the idea that faith and orthodox beliefs
trumps everything, even personal happiness. I was also influenced by my own
life in terms of watching family members cheat on their wives and husbands. For
a long time someone close to me lived a very lonely life because her husband
cheated on her. She stuck around because “that is the thing to do.” It made me
want to tell her story. So I did. Another bit of structural influence came from
Alice Hoffman, whom I wrote about for the extra credit assignment. Hoffman has
this crazy way of presenting life with this magical, ethereal spin on it that
seems to grab readers by the collar and shakes them until they cannot breathe.
I am not sure I accomplished that with “Godsend” but it is definitely where I
want to take it.
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